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After 14 Years, Rob Zombie’s ‘Halloween’ No Longer Holds Labor Day Weekend Box Office Record
Ever since the film’s release way back in 2007, Rob Zombie‘s polarizing Halloween remake has reigned supreme over the Labor Day Weekend box office, pulling in $30,591,759 domestically back in 2007. Zombie’s Halloween went on to make $58 million domestically and $80 million worldwide, making it a massive hit that helped kick-start the franchise back to life.
Fourteen years later, Bloody Disgusting extends congratulations to Marvel’s Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings, which has done something no movie (including Christopher Nolan’s Tenet last year) has been able to do: take the Labor Day crown away from Halloween.
Variety reports that Shang-Chi has debuted at the U.S. box office with $71.4 million as of this writing, expected to rack up an impressive $83.5 million by the end of the 4-day weekend.
That number is nearly triple what Rob Zombie’s Halloween made back in 2007, making the MCU’s Shang-Chi the new reigning champion of the Labor Day Weekend box office.
Interestingly, Michael Myers is headed back to the big screen in just over a month, with sequel Halloween Kills bringing the franchise back to theaters on October 15, 2021. That film is expected to be a box office hit despite the pandemic that has spelt doom for several big screen releases, proving that Michael Myers is as much of a draw here in 2021 as he was in 2007.
Elsewhere on the box office charts this weekend, Nia DaCosta’s Candyman has scared up another $10.5 million so far, bringing the film’s box office total up to $41.9 million domestically.
After pulling in $28 million at the worldwide box office this month, director (and star) Dev Patel’s critically acclaimed action-thriller Monkey Man is now available to watch at home.
You can rent Monkey Man for $19.99 or digitally purchase the film for $24.99!
Monkey Man is currently 88% Fresh on Rotten Tomatoes, with Bloody Disgusting’s head critic Meagan Navarro awarding the film 4.5/5 stars in her review out of SXSW back in March.
Meagan raves, “While the violence onscreen is palpable and painful, it’s not just the exquisite fight choreography and thrilling action set pieces that set Monkey Man apart but also its political consciousness, unique narrative structure, and myth-making scale.”
“While Monkey Man pays tribute to all of the action genre’s greats, from the Indonesian action classics to Korean revenge cinema and even a John Wick joke or two, Dev Patel’s cultural spin and unique narrative structure leave behind all influences in the dust for new terrain,” Meagan’s review continues.
She adds, “Monkey Man presents Dev Patel as a new action hero, a tenacious underdog with a penetrating stare who bites, bludgeons, and stabs his way through bodies to gloriously bloody excess. More excitingly, the film introduces Patel as a strong visionary right out of the gate.”
Inspired by the legend of Hanuman, Monkey Man stars Patel as Kid, an anonymous young man who ekes out a meager living in an underground fight club where, night after night, wearing a gorilla mask, he is beaten bloody by more popular fighters for cash. After years of suppressed rage, Kid discovers a way to infiltrate the enclave of the city’s sinister elite. As his childhood trauma boils over, his mysteriously scarred hands unleash an explosive campaign of retribution to settle the score with the men who took everything from him.
Monkey Man is produced by Jordan Peele’s Monkeypaw Productions.
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