Economics
‘Crazy Rich Asians’ Overcomes Competition, Biases
- Rare U.S. film with largely Asian cast wins debut weekend
- ‘Meg’ places second while new Wahlberg film takes third spot
‘‘Crazy Rich Asians,’’ the first Hollywood film in almost a quarter-century with a largely Asian cast, opened as the No. 1 weekend film in North American theaters, dispensing with last week’s winner “The Meg” and a new Mark Wahlberg picture.
Based on Kevin Kwan’s 2013 novel with the same name, the Warner Bros. romantic comedy collected an estimated $25.2 million in U.S and Canadian theaters, researcher ComScore Inc. said in an email Sunday. That beat last weekend’s winner, ‘‘The Meg,’’ which landed in second place, and ‘‘Mile 22,’’ an action-thriller starring Wahlberg that opened in third.