The international news of the week is the box office performance of Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings. It took $190 million around the world in its first weekend, and rocked the socks off US pundits with half of that.
Disney chose the summer’s end Labor Day Holiday weekend to launch and did almost as well as a standard Marvel release. It was spread over an extra day, but that slot is traditionally slow according to Variety.
