LOS ANGELES, Aug 17 — Crazy Rich Asians opened to a solid US$5 million (RM20.5 million) at the Wednesday box office in North America, The Hollywood Reporter said today.
This puts the Jon M. Chu-directed rom-com on course for a five-day debut in the US$25 million range.
The modestly budgeted US$30 million film is based on Kevin Kwan’s best-selling 2013 novel of the same name.
Crazy Rich Asians is about an Asian-American New Yorker who goes to Singapore to meet her boyfriend’s wealthy and tradition-bound family of Chinese descent is based on the 2013 best-selling book of the same name by Kevin Kwan.
It is the first Hollywood studio movie since 1993’s The Joy Luck Club to feature a large Asian cast.
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The film opens in Malaysia on August 22.
