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It looks like Warner Bros. is going to get crazy rich this weekend as it’s latest rom-com is expected to post a five-day debut of $26 million or more, including $19 million-$20 million for the weekend itself.

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00:00So your family is rich?

00:02We're comfortable.

00:03That is exactly what a super rich person would say.

00:05It looks like Warner Brothers is going to get crazy rich this weekend, as its latest

00:09rom-com is expected to post a five-day debut of $26 million or more, including

00:13$19 to $20 million for the weekend itself.

00:16John M. Chu's Crazy Rich Asians won the Thursday box office race with $3.8 million

00:21for a two-day total of $8.8 million, while fellow Warner Brothers shark pick

00:24The Meg snapped up $3.2 million.

00:27The big question is whether Crazy Rich Asians and The Meg, which heads into its

00:31second weekend, will find themselves in a close race for No. 1.

00:39Chu's modestly budgeted $30 million film, based on Kevin Kwan's best-selling 2013 novel

00:43of the same name, is the first Hollywood studio movie since 1993's The Joy Luck Club

00:48to feature an all-westernized Asian cast.

00:51The story follows American Rachel Chu, played by Constance Wu, as she accompanies

00:55her longtime boyfriend Nick Young, portrayed by Henry Golding, to his best friend's wedding

00:59in Singapore.

01:00As Rachel visits Nick's hometown for the first time, she quickly learns that her boyfriend

01:03is not only from one of the richest families in Asia, but that she'll have a hard time

01:07winning over his mother.

01:09The weekend's two other new offerings are Pete Berg's Mile 22, starring Mark Wahlberg,

01:13and Studio 8's prehistoric adventure drama Alpha, directed by Albert Hughes and starring

01:17Cody Smith-McPhee.

01:19Mile 22, which is tracking to open in the $17 million range, grossed $1 million in Thursday

01:24evening previews. The action thriller, which marks the fourth film Berg and Wahlberg have made

01:28together, tells the story of an elite CIA operative and his team who are tasked with

01:33escorting a high-value asset who is being targeted by terrorists. The film is currently sporting

01:37a Rotten Tomatoes score of 25 percent.

01:40Meanwhile, Alpha took in $525,000 in Thursday previews for a debut of $8 to $10 million.

01:45Set 20,000 years ago during the last ice age, the story centers on a young man who was injured

01:50and left for dead by his tribe while on a hunt. The film's current Rotten Tomatoes score is 83 percent.

01:55To read more on this story, head to THR.com. For The Hollywood Reporter News, I'm Lyndsey Rodrigues.

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