It has been another crazy good weekend for rom-com Crazy Rich Asians, which topped the box office for a third straight weekend amid a pretty good summer for North American theaters overall, industry watchers said Sunday.
The Warner Bros. film, with its mostly Asian cast, took in an estimated $22.2 million for the Friday-through-Sunday period, dropping just 10 percent from the previous weekend, box office tracker Exhibitor Relations said.
The film’s estimated take jumps to $28 million when Monday’s Labor Day holiday is included.
The adaptation of Kevin Kwan’s best-selling novel, starring Michelle Yeoh, Henry Golding, and Constance Wu, follows an American economics professor as she meets her super-rich boyfriend’s family in Singapore in a story about the clash of love, family and great wealth.
Crazy Rich also helped boost the summer box office to what Hollywood Reporter called a “spectacular year-over-year recovery,” with domestic revenue expected to be up 14 percent over last summer.
Warner Bros. meanwhile scored another hit with shark-thriller The Meg, in the No. 2 spot again with takings of $10.5 million. Jason Statham stars as a rescue diver trying to save scientists trapped in a submarine being attacked by a huge, prehistoric shark.
In the third spot was Tom Cruise adventure film Mission Impossible — Fallout from Paramount, which took in $7 million. Globally, the action blockbuster has earned $649 million, the best performance of any of the MI films to date.
Fourth went to MGM’s new Operation Finale, at $6 million and in fifth was Searching from Sony, at $5.7 million.