'Crazy Rich Asians' Wins the Holiday Weekend
by EG
Romantic comedy Crazy Rich Asians was the top movie at the Labor Day weekend box office, staying on top of the heap for a third weekend in a row. The film is holding on remarkably well, with its ticket sales holding almost steady for a virtually unheard-of third straight week. Read on for details.
Warner Bros.' Crazy Rich Asians is dominating the Labor Day box-office picnic, earning an estimated $22.2 million for the three-day weekend for a near-record four-day holiday gross of $27 million-plus.
To boot, the Jon M. Chu-directed rom-com is dancing past the $100 million mark in its third weekend as it targets the best domestic gross for a comedy in at least two years. It also boasts the top Labor Day showing in more than a decade. In 2007, Halloween opened to $30.6 million over the long weekend, while The Sixth Sense (1999) is the No. 2 Labor Day pic with $29.3 million, not adjusted for inflation.
The weekend isn't over and Crazy Rich Asians could come in ahead of Sunday estimates.
The summer box office made a spectacular year-over-year recovery. While final numbers won't be tallied until Tuesday, comScore is predicting an uptick of at least 14 percent. Domestic revenue for the May 4-Sept. 3 corridor is expected to come in at $4.39 billion, the fifth-best of all time. And it would be almost a record summer if including the first week of Avengers: Infinity War, which unfurled on April 27 (2013 remains the record-holder with $4.731 billion).
Crazy Rich Asians fell a scant 11 percent for the weekend proper. Overseas, the rom-com opened to a stellar $5.4 million in Australia for an early foreign tally of $19.9 million and global total of more than $130 million through Monday.
Warners also took the No. 2 spot with The Meg, now in its fourth weekend. The hit shark pic earned another $10.5 million over the three days for a projected four-day gross of $12 million, and a domestic total of $122 million through Monday. Overseas, it swam to another $17.7 million for a foreign total of $342.3 million through Sunday and $462 million worldwide.
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