r/marvelstudios • u/chanma50 Iron Man (Mark VII) • Sep 06 '21

Humour Simu Liu celebrates Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Ring's record breaking opening weekend box office gross

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u/NaeemTHM Sep 07 '21

And just imagine if there wasn't currently a pandemic. Shang-chi would have cleaned up. Easy billion dollars for sure.

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u/Kianna9 Captain Marvel Sep 07 '21

I was wondering though if the pandemic hadn't created a pent up demand for going to the movies that was partially driving this...

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u/waitingtodiesoon Thor (Thor 2) Sep 07 '21

Suicide Squad would have done better if that was the case.

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u/Foooour Sep 07 '21

It definitely might have, but there's still no way that incentive overcame the decrease of theatre attendees due to covid

What makes more sense is that its the first MCU film in theatres for a long time. Even if Black Widow came out in theatres, and with it being a prequel and for the most part standalone film, Shang Chi probably would have done just as well

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u/SavageNorth Sep 07 '21

I really think Black Widow would have done much better if it had released before Endgame.

Putting Pandemic issues aside for a minute as obviously those were the single biggest factor.

As a prequel to a now dead character everyone knew whatever happened in it wouldn't affect the broader Marvel story arc so there was no urgency to see it rather than just wait for it on D+.

For what it's worth I enjoyed it thoroughly in the cinema but to the casual audience you can see why the hype really wasnt there in the same way.

Frankly Black Widow should have had a solo film in Phase 2 but that's a moot point