Before last weekend, there was little doubt that the post-Avengers phase of the Marvel Cinematic Universe (MCU) was struggling.
On the domestic front, films released in the last two years like “Black Widow” and “Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings” made headlines for topping the box office or breaking records, but such reports came with an asterisk. They were breaking pandemic records. Meaning they topped the box office as measured against the last two years’ worth of films. Hardly worth crowing about. Stacked up against all-time records, these films barely registered a blip (pun intended) on the earnings radar.
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