Disney’s blockbuster “Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings,” featuring Marvel’s first Asian superhero, dominated the North American box office in its fourth weekend, grossing $ 13.2 million, reported Sunday. Industry Observatory Exhibitor Relations.
That figure, estimated for the period from Friday to Sunday, kept the film – starring Chinese-Canadian actor Simu Liu as a former murderer in the shadow of an evil father – well ahead of its rival. closer, the newcomer “Dear Evan Hansen”.
The teen musical drama starring Ben Platt and distributed by Universal Pictures grossed $ 7.5 million, displacing 20th Century sci-fi comedy “Free Guy” to third place with $ 4.1 million.
The film stars Ryan Reynolds in the role of a bank teller who discovers that he is actually a character he doesn’t play in a great video game.
Fourth place went to Universal’s horror movie “Candyman,” a reimagining of the 1992 classic that grossed $ 2.5 million.
The film surpassed “Cry Macho,” the Warner Brothers drama directed by and starring Clint Eastwood, who plays a retired rodeo rider helping a teenager and his fighting cock out of Mexico. He made $ 2.1 million.
Disney’s Jungle Cruise, “edged out another horror movie,” Maligno, “to rank sixth with $ 1.7.
The top 10 are completed:
“Maligno” ($ 1.5 million)
“Copshop” ($ 1.3 million)
“Paw Patrol: The Movie” ($ 1.1 million)
“Tammy Faye’s Eyes” ($ 620,000)
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