'Crazy Rich Asians' is the Biggest Romantic Comedy in Almost a Decade

Crazy Rich Asians has dominated the box office for the past three weekends, making it the most successful romantic comedy to hit theaters in a long time. Although rom coms never do as well as, say, superhero movies, CRA's showing is impressive by just about any standard. Read on for details.

Via The Hollywood Reporter.

Crazy Rich Asians continues to rack up crazy great stats.

Jon M. Chu's groundbreaking film has become the most successful Hollywood studio romantic comedy in nearly a decade at the North American box office after finishing the long Labor Day with an estimated total of $117 million, besting the $110.2 million earned domestically by Amy Schumer's 2015 pic Trainwreck.

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Crazy Rich Asians boasts the top showing for a rom-com — an endangered genre, at least on the big screen— since Sandra Bullock and Ryan Reynolds' The Proposal earned $164 million in North America in 2009, not adjusted for inflation.

That doesn't include the specialty pic and Oscar-nominated Silver Linings Playbook (2012), the David O. Russell-directed romantic comedy-drama that grossed $132.1 million in North America. Harvey Weinstein's indie film company, the now-defunct Weinstein Co., released Silver Linings, starring Jennifer Lawrence and Bradley Cooper.

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Since its debut in mid-August, Crazy Rich Asians has continued to defy the overall comedy slump gripping the U.S. box office for the past several years.

The $30 million movie, along with the shark pic The Meg and the Tom Cruise tentpole Mission: Impossible — Fallout, also aided in helping fuel a better-than-expected August box office. The month was up nearly 30 percent over a dismal August 2017. (Warners, which released The Meg in addition to Crazy Rich Asians, lays claims to 26 percent of all August domestic revenue.)

And over the Labor Day frame, Crazy Rich Asians eclipsed the 2017 summer box-office hit Girls Trip ($115.2 million) domestically to become the most successful live-action comedy in at least two years, regardless of genre.

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