Updated with Monday Am B.O. figures and analysis This weekend director Jon M. Chu and Warner Bros. took what might have appeared to be a niche genre proposition on paper and turned it into a cultural moment.
Crazy Rich Asians, based on Kevin Kwan’s bestselling novel, earned $26.5M at the domestic weekend box office, and $35.3M over five days (in revised Monday figures), a gross that bests another August female-skewing hit, DreamWorks’ The Help which opened to $26M over three, $35M over five and legged out to $169.7M.
In a prepackaged pitch to Warner Bros., with Chu’s vision intact, Color Force producers Nina Jacobson and Brad Simpson always saw a universal appeal in Kwan’s book in its story of an earnest, hardworking girl, Rachel (Constance Wu) who has the most sincere intentions of impressing her potential fiance Nick Young’s (Henry Golding) wealthy family, specifically his strict matriarch,...
Crazy Rich Asians, based on Kevin Kwan’s bestselling novel, earned $26.5M at the domestic weekend box office, and $35.3M over five days (in revised Monday figures), a gross that bests another August female-skewing hit, DreamWorks’ The Help which opened to $26M over three, $35M over five and legged out to $169.7M.
In a prepackaged pitch to Warner Bros., with Chu’s vision intact, Color Force producers Nina Jacobson and Brad Simpson always saw a universal appeal in Kwan’s book in its story of an earnest, hardworking girl, Rachel (Constance Wu) who has the most sincere intentions of impressing her potential fiance Nick Young’s (Henry Golding) wealthy family, specifically his strict matriarch,...
- 8/20/2018
- by Anthony D'Alessandro
- Deadline Film + TV
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