HIGHLY anticipated rom-com “Crazy Rich Asians” – the first Hollywood film with an mainly Asian cast in a generation – dazzled the North American box office in its debut weekend, claiming the top spot, industry estimates showed Sunday.
The Warner Bros. adaptation of Kevin Kwan’s best-selling novel of the same name raked in $34 million since hitting theaters on Wednesday, box office tracker Exhibitor Relations said. Of the total, the film took in $25.2 million at the weekend.
Starring veteran actress Michelle Yeoh, British-Malaysian former BBC host Henry Golding and American sitcom star Constance Wu, the film tells the story of a American economics professor who meets her super-wealthy boyfriend’s family in Singapore – and all the drama that ensues.
It is the first Tinseltown film with a predominantly Asian cast since “The Joy Luck Club” in 1993. (Reuters)
