'Crazy Rich Asians' Is the Most Successful U.S. Studio Rom-Com in 9 Years | THR News - video Dailymotion

'Crazy Rich Asians' has become the most successful Hollywood studio romantic comedy in nearly a decade at the North American box office.

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00:00So your family is rich? We're comfortable. That is exactly what a super rich person would say.

00:05Crazy Rich Asians has become the most successful Hollywood studio romantic comedy in nearly a

00:10decade at the North American box office. The John M. Chu directed flick finished the Labor Day long

00:15weekend with an estimated total of $117 million, beating out the $110.2 million earned domestically

00:21by Amy Schumer's 2015 pick Trainwreck. Since its debut in mid-August, Crazy Rich Asians has

00:26continued to defy the overall comedy slump gripping the U.S. box office for the past several years

00:31and boasts a top showing for a rom-com since Sandra Bullock and Ryan Reynolds' The Proposal

00:35earned $164 million in North America in 2009, not adjusted for inflation. The $30 million movie,

00:42along with the shark pick The Meg and Tom Cruise blockbuster Mission Impossible Fallout,

00:46also helped to give the box office a better-than-expected August, with the month being up

00:50nearly 30% over the same time frame in 2017. Also over the Labor Day frame, Crazy Rich Asians

00:56eclipsed the 2017 summer box office hit Girls Trip domestically to become the most successful

01:01live-action comedy in at least two years, regardless of genre. Girls Trip earned $140 million

01:07globally, while Crazy Rich Asians, which is still early in its foreign run, has already grossed

01:12$136.9 million to date at the worldwide box office. The critically acclaimed movie,

01:17which is the first Hollywood studio film to feature an all-westernized Asian-American cast

01:21since 1993's The Joy Luck Club, is appealing to an ethnically diverse audience and has enjoyed

01:26a stellar hold and topped the chart for three consecutive weekends. Warner Bros. Pictures is

01:31already looking ahead to a sequel to the groundbreaking rom-com, which stars Constance Wu,

01:35Henry Golding, Michelle Yeoh and Okofina. To read more on this story, head to THR.com.

01:40For The Hollywood Reporter News, I'm Lyndsey Rodrigues.