Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings continues to roll, while not even Clint Eastwood can keep another WB title from flopping.
For the third week in a row, Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings dominated the box office, making more than four times what any other film in release did. The Marvel title rang up another $21.7 million, the best third weekend gross since Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker. That brings its total to $176.9 million, enough to become the second-highest-grossing film of 2021. It should pass Black Widow by the weekend to become #1, and seems likely to be the first $200 million grosser since Bad Boys For Life by the end of next weekend at the latest.
Late summer hit Free Guy may not be making as much as Shang-Chi, but it's having a pretty impressive box office run of its own, as, in its sixth week of release, it's still at #2, with another $5.1 million banked. The action comedy is now up to $108.5 million, and seems likely to pass Jungle Cruise in the next week or two.
WB is likely deeply regretting its decision to release its entire 2021 slate for free for HBO Max subscribers, as they've seen yet another film dramatically underperform. This time it's Cry Macho, the latest vehicle for 91-year-old Clint Eastwood. The drama could only muster up $4.4 million, a far cry from the $17.5 million The Mule opened to in December 2018. Eastwood films (and films like this in general) tend to have decent legs, but HBO Max seems to have cut said legs off of every other film that's debuted on the streamer, and I'll be surprised if Macho is any exception. This will be lucky to make as much as The Mule's opening weekend.
Candyman continues to do decent business, taking in another $3.5 million to bring its total to $53.2 million. It's doing considerably better than fellow horror movie Malignant, which actually had a decent-for-horror (and HBO Max) hold, but opened so poorly that there's little chance of recovery. The thriller brought in $2.7 million for a ten-day total of $9.8 million.
In sixth, newcomer Copshop has the makings of a cult hit, but didn't get much publicity, which explains its mediocre $2.3 million opening. Expect this one to become a word-of-mouth hit in a year or so when it hits streaming.
Long-runners Jungle Cruise, Paw Patrol, and Don't Breathe 2 continue to chug along. Cruse picked up $2.1 million for a total of $112.6 million, Paw Patrol found $1.7 million for $37.1 million, and Don't Breathe fell under a million, to $0.7 million, for a total of $31.3 million.
Opening in tenth was semi-wide release The Eyes of Tammy Faye. The biopic of the famed 80s televangelist earned mixed reviews, and had a disappointing $0.7 million start, which is at least better than fellow semi-wide newcomer Blue Bayou, which only made about half that. Eyes will be going wider this weekend.
The week's biggest new release is Dear Evan Hanson, an adaption of the hit Broadway musical starring Ben Platt, reprising his Tony-winning role, as a teenager whose somewhat self-serving lies to help comfort a grieving family spiral out of control. Much of the pre-release chatter has focused on how the 27-year-old Platt looks every bit like a 27-year-old, but the film's poor reviews and the cold shoulder that greeted the year's other, much better reviewed, adaption of a hit Broadway musical, In the Heights, suggest that Shang-Chi will likely hold onto its title for one more week. Also opening is Courageous: Legacy, a 10-year-annivesary re-release of the Christian police drama which has been remastered, reedited, and, thanks to some newly shot scenes, also serves as its own sequel. The original grossed a respectable $34.5 million in 2011. It remains to be seen if Christian audiences, who largely ignored the documentary Show Me the Father, will turn out for this. We'll find out next week.
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