‘Crazy Rich Asians’ spurs strong North American box office
The combination of new films and the strength of Crazy Rich Asians was expected to bolster sales for the final weekend of the summer movie season
The Warner Bros. romantic comedy collected US$22.2 million in the US and Canada, comScore Inc. estimated in an email Sunday.
Warner Bros.’s The Meg ranked second, taking in US$10.5 million. Paramount’s Mission: Impossible – Fallout placed third with US$7 million, and Operation Finale, about the hunt for notorious Nazi Adolf Eichmann, came in fourth place for Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer with US$6 million.
Kin, a new science-fiction film from Lions Gate Entertainment Corp., failed to land in the top 10.
The combination of new films and the strength of Crazy Rich Asians was expected to bolster sales for the final weekend of the summer movie season. Through the extended weekend, the top 10 films were expected to bring in almost US$100 million, Box Office Pro estimated. That would be about 60 per cent more than a year earlier, when the biggest films collected US$61.7 million.