{"id":18178,"date":"2021-09-09T00:12:04","date_gmt":"2021-09-09T07:12:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/atomtickets.com\/movie-news\/?p=18178"},"modified":"2021-09-15T23:36:54","modified_gmt":"2021-09-16T06:36:54","slug":"weekly-news-shang-chi-breaks-labor-day-record","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/atomtickets.com\/movie-news\/weekly-news-shang-chi-breaks-labor-day-record\/","title":{"rendered":"News Of The Week: ‘Shang-Chi’ Smashes Labor Day Weekend Box Office Record"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Hollywood was on temporary pause but productions are gearing back up, release dates continue to be tweaked<\/a> in preparation for theaters reopening, and things are slowly starting to return to normal \u2013 or at least, our temporary new normal. Movie news is once again starting to flow, with us bringing you a few hand-picked stories we think you\u2019ll like.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Let\u2019s hop to it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

‘The Matrix Resurrections’ Reveals First Images<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

The Matrix 4<\/em> has been one of the most mysterious movies since it was first announced to be in development a few years ago. Aside from a few returning cast members and the new cast members that have been officially confirmed, virtually nothing is known about the plot; Warner Bros. has kept an airtight lid on any details leaking out. But ahead of The Matrix Resurrections<\/a><\/em> dropping its first official trailer this week, a site was launched to promote the upcoming film and it offers a slew of stills and images, as well as brief snippets of video from the movie. It gives us our first good look at how Neo has changed, along with glimpses of the new cast additions, including Jessica Henwick, Jonathan Groff, and Yahya Abdul-Mateen II. Check it out at What Is The Matrix?<\/a> and check out the first official trailer down below.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

‘Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings’ Shatters Labor Day Weekend Box Office Records<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
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After Black Widow<\/a><\/em> had a strong opening weekend but lost a fair bit of steam in weekend two, there were ripples across the industry that the theater business was in deeper trouble than anticipated and big blockbusters might be moving again\u2013if Marvel can’t sustain interest, who can? However, while a few movies have certainly moved since that release, Marvel’s second movie of the year \u2013 this time in theaters only \u2013 has proven that those predictions of doom and gloom might have been a bit premature. Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings<\/a><\/em> roared into theaters this weekend, generating $94.4 million and shattering all previous Labor Day weekend records. That total is for the full four-day count, which exceeded even Disney’s expectations by four and a half million dollars. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

But even its three-day total of $75.5 million more than doubles the amount of the previous Labor Day weekend record of $30.6 million, set by Halloween<\/em> in 2007. It also opened well ahead of Universal’s F9<\/em> and Paramount’s The Quiet Place Part II<\/em>, both of which opened earlier in the year when the delta variant hadn’t yet taken hold. Granted, it’s Marvel, and Marvel generates box office totals unlike any other studio. But it still bodes well for theaters. After so much talk that the theater business was officially dead and people prefer to stay home to watch movies now, Shang-Chi<\/em>‘s blistering opening weekend shows that the appetite by audiences to see movies in theaters is still there; studios just have to make it worth it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Nicolas Cage To Lead Action Western ‘The Old Way’<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Nicolas Cage is having himself a career renaissance as of late, and we love to see it. Hot off his critically acclaimed film, Pig<\/a><\/em>, and heading into this month’s genre mash-up Prisoners of the Ghostland<\/a><\/em>, Cage is leveraging himself out of his era of movies best left on the B-movie shelf and into smart, stylish films that are as unexpected as he is. Now, he’s saddling up for what is, surprisingly, his first Western. As Deadline<\/a> reports, he’s signed on to play the lead in The Old Way<\/em>. Cage will star as Colton Briggs, a former gunslinging cowboy who now runs a small general store and lives a quiet life with his wife and daughter. When he comes home one day to find a gang of outlaws has murdered his wife, he straps on his six-shooters once again to avenge her death with an unusual partner at his side: his 12-year-old daughter. Acts of Violence<\/em> director Brett Donowho is set to direct off a script by Carl W. Lucas. The project is being shopped around at TIFF this week, but regardless of which studio picks it up for distribution, Cage is ecstatic, saying in a statement<\/p>\n\n\n\n

“After 43 years in cinema, I\u2019m only now being invited to the important and storied genre of the Western with both The Old Way<\/em> and Butcher\u2019s Crossing<\/em>. Being born and raised in the West, this is another good match and long overdue. I\u2019m excited and compelled by the complex characters of both Briggs and Miller, and to find new ground to play at 57 is indeed galvanizing.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

Let the next phase of the Nic Cage career renaissance begin! <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Owen Wilson Signs On For Disney’s ‘Haunted Mansion’ Movie<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
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Speaking of a nice career pop, Owen Wilson is apparently finding new life through Disney. Just a few months after wrapping his fan-favorite turn as Agent Mobius M. Mobius in the Disney+ Marvel series, Loki<\/em>, THR<\/a> reports that he’s joining the Haunted Mansion<\/em> reboot. He joins a cast that already includes Tiffany Haddish and LaKeith Stanfield. Little is known about the plot, or who Wilson will be playing, but it will reportedly follow a family who moves into the titular haunted mansion. With Wilson’s doggedly bureaucratic Mobius being the straight man to Tom Hiddleston’s God of Mischief, it’s possible he could carry that exasperated dad energy to playing the father of the family who inherit the mansion \u2013 but that’s just a fun bit of speculation. Disney previously tapped Dear White People<\/em> director Justin Simien to direct; Katie Dippold wrote the script. The movie is set to shoot in Atlanta this October, but no official release date has yet been set. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Jason Momoa Unveils First Look At New Costume For ‘Aquaman And The Lost Kingdom’<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

It’s been three years since Aquaman<\/em> was released, but finally, production on sequel Aquaman and the Lost Kingdom<\/a><\/em> is set to get underway. As proof of that, star Jason Momoa offered up a first look at two different costumes, the first of which is an orange-and-green throwback to his comic book look, and the next a sleek black number that looks like some sort of stealth suit. The caption on the post read, “Second round. New suit. More action. #aquaman Aloha j” and in an accompanying video, he revealed he was in London for the production. “I am finally in England. It is sunny out, it\u2019s amazing, and I\u2019m gonna start Aquaman 2<\/em> tomorrow,” he says. “This is the last day of the brown. I\u2019m gonna be a blonde. Supposedly [they] have more fun. I don\u2019t know about that. We\u2019ll test it out. But I\u2019m excited to see [director] James [Wan], see my whole cast.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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