Shang-Chi Surpasses Black Widow To Become Highest-Grossing Movie During Pandemic Era

Marvel's Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings has surpassed another MCU film, Black Widow, to become the highest grossing movie in the US during the pandemic era.

Shang-Chi has now made $196.5 million in the US, which is ahead of Black Widow's $183.6 million. Internationally, it's a different story, with Black Widow ($378.4 million) pacing ahead of Shang-Chi ($363.4 million). Both Marvel films would have no doubt generated substantially larger box office results in North America and globally in pre-pandemic times. Both movies were obliterated by the success of F9, which has made $716 million globally (but only $173 million in the US).

Comparing Shang-Chi and Black Widow isn't totally fair, however, as Black Widow was also released on Disney+ with Premier Access at launch, while Shang-Chi was not. This release strategy surely impacted box office results one way or the other for Black Widow (and it's also led to a messy lawsuit between Scarlett Johnasson and Disney).