The weak debut for “Malignant” allowed Disney to also take the second spot this weekend. The studio has said it will return to debuting films with an exclusive theatrical window next year. releases this year, “Malignant” was also released on HBO Max for subscribers. Overseas, it added $6.3 million from 69 markets. Warner Bros.' “Malignant,” a horror thriller directed by James Wan, was the only sizable new competition for “Shang-Chi." It debuted softly with $5.6 million. Sign up for NBC Philadelphia newsletters. Get Philly local news, weather forecasts, sports and entertainment stories to your inbox. That was how “Black Widow” opened, prompting a lawsuit from star Scarlett Johansson. On Friday, Disney announced that all of its remaining 2021 releases, including Marvel's “Eternals,” will open exclusively in theaters, and not land on Disney+ at the same time. The $90 million four-day Labor Day weekend opening for “Shang-Chi” was widely seen as an encouraging sign for the industry amid the coronavirus surge in the U.S. Worldwide, Universal's “Fast and Furious" sequel “F9” has fared better than any other pandemic release with more than $714 million in ticket sales. “Shang-Chi” currently doesn't have a release date in China. At its current pace, “Shang-Chi,” the first Marvel movie to star an Asian superhero (played by Simu Liu), may become the top summer release at the North American box office. In two weeks of release, it has grossed $247.6 million globally. “Shang-Chi" is playing exclusively in theaters, and its second-week drop, 53%, was relatively modest. That total was good enough for the best second-weekend gross of any film during the pandemic, edging out the previous Marvel movie, “Black Widow.” This year, relatively few films have held well in theaters either because they've been streaming simultaneously at home or because moviegoers' attention fades. “Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings” stayed on top at the box office, collecting $35.8 million in ticket sales in its second weekend, according to studio estimates Sunday.
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