Economics
‘Crazy Rich Asians’ Overcomes Box Office Competition, Hollywood 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 $26.5 million in U.S and Canadian theaters, researcher ComScore Inc. said Monday. 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.