Weekend Box Office: Step aside Dear Evan Hansen, America still loves Shang-Chi
Shang-Chi nearly doubles Dear Evan Hansen's box office take and extends its lead as the highest-grossing film in a long time

If Dear Evan Hansen ever had a shot at ending Shang-Chi And The Legend Of The Ten Rings’ run of box office dominance, it probably dried up the moment Disney decided not to give its superhero movie a day-and-date Disney+ release (which, as we’ve discussed at length on this website, backfired dramatically for Black Widow). It also probably dried up the first time someone saw the 27-year-old Ben Platt—Tony-winning star of the Broadway version of Dear Evan Hanson—looking bizarrely out of place as a high school student in the movie version. So maybe there was never any chance that Dear Evan Hansen would dethrone Shang-Chi, but at least we now have confirmation that we’re living in a relatively normal universe where relatively normal things do still tend to happen. (It was really up in the air for a while, though.)