With the help of an excited Asian-American audience, Warner Bros. & # 39; & # 39; Crazy Rich Asians & # 39; the largest opening placed for a romantic comedy in three years with a $ 25 million weekend allocation and a five-day opening of $ 34 million from 3,384 screens, beat expectations of tracker.
With a score of 92 percent Rotten Tomatoes and an A on CinemaScore, Jon M. Chu & # 39; s adaptation of Kevin Kwan's bestseller has earned both a nice rom-com and a global call for Asia -Americans looking to more representation in the media.
While the MPAA reports that the Asian public recorded on average about 6 percent of the total domestic apostasy of the past year, they accounted for 40 percent of the opening weekend of this film, according to comScore & # 39; s PostTrak, a demographic share unheard of for a Hollywood movie.
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And with a budget of $ 30 million, "Crazy Rich Asians" is on the way to becoming a hit similar to Universal & # 39; s "Girls Trip", an African-American comedy made on a similar budget that became a silent hit with black women with a domestic run of $ 115 million. Since romantic comedies have fought since the success of & # 39; Trainwreck & # 39; in 2015 and less mid-budget films at the top of the charts, & # 39; Crazy Rich Asians & # 39; another sign that diversity is a way to make a profit for both film categories.
Second is the release of Warner Bros. from last weekend, "The Meg," which now appears to be on solid ground with a $ 21.5 million second weekend and 10-day total of $ 84 million. Abroad, this Chinese-American coproduction remained strong at $ 67 million, including $ 30.5 million in China to bring the total in that country to $ 117 million. In general, the giant shark film of Jason Statham has a total of $ 314 million.
Combined with holdover numbers from & # 39; Mission: Impossible – Fallout & # 39; from Paramount, the two WB releases the box office in August have made a much better end of summer season for cinemas than last year. The total income from box office in this weekend is 36 percent higher than in the same weekend in 2017, while the monthly totals are 16 percent higher than last year.
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In third place is STX "s" Mile 22 ", which fell below the expectations of the trackers with an opening round of $ 13.6 million from 3,520 after receiving poor reception with a 20 percent RT score and a B-on CinemaScore. [19659002] The fourth collaboration between Peter Berg and Mark Wahlberg is 64 percent lower than that of the biggest success of the duo office, "Lone Survivor", which opened in 2013 for $ 37.6 million. The main competitor of the film, media action movie "Mission: Impossible – Fallout," earned $ 10.5 million in his fourth weekend for a total of $ 180 million.
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Sitting next to Mission: Impossible for fourteen On the charts is Sony & # 39; s & # 39; Alpha & # 39 ;, which is estimated at a opening of $ 10.5 million out of 2,719 screens, although it is above expectations, it is still far below what this film needed with a reported budget of $ 50 million, even with an RT score of 84 percent and B + on CinemaScore.
Finally, Focus Blaces & BlacKkKlansman & # 39; was out of the top five of this weekend, the film had a strong hold as it grew to 1,788 screens and earned $ 7 million in its second weekend. only a 35 percent discount on the $ 10.8 million opening of the film and gives it a total of $ 23 million for 10 days.
From & # 39; The Cheat & # 39; & Crazy; Asians & # 39 ;, a concise history of Asian-Americans in film (Photo & # 39; s)
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The acclaimed romantic comedy" Crazy Rich Asians "is a reason to be both big and the first big studio film since 1993" Joy Luck Club "with a mainly Asian-American cast. The history of Asian-Americans in films lasted more than a century before the emergence of color film. Here is a chronological look at films starring Asian Americans from the past – and the future.
"The Cheat" (1915) [1 9459006] Asian men are rarely seen as a sex symbol in contemporary media, but the Japanese-American actor Sessue Hayakawa became a real heartbreaker, especially after the leading role in the silent thriller by Cecil B. DeMille, "The Cheat." Although he played a monumental role, he was a predatory antagonist, a typecast that stayed with him during the anti-Japanese sentiments of the Second World War.
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" Daughter of Shanghai "(1937) Anna May Wong played together with the South American actor Philip Ahn, who played a government agent who tried to alien smuggling ring in San Francisco store Francisco Ahn later became the first Asian-American star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame
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"Sayonara "(1957) Japanese-American actress Miyoshi Umeki starred in" Sayonara "as half of a disdained interracial marriage in the middle of the Korean War. Umeki won the Oscar for best female supporting role for her role, becoming the first and only Asian-American actress to do so.
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" Enter the Dragon "(1973) The most notable film by Bruce Lee was released six days after his death in 197 3. In the critical reviews the martial arts film was recorded by the Library of Congress in the National Film Registry of the United States because it was "culturally significant." Although Lee died young, at the age of 32 he became a symbol of cool power and overcame the impossible.
