Sunday
Aug192018
Crazy, Now Richer Asians
Sunday, August 19, 2018 at 5:28PM by Nathaniel R
The past two years have definitely been a huge wakeup call to Hollywood -- American audiences are demanding more diversity onscreen. It wasn't just the sleeper smash of Get Out, or the bigger than Batman/Superman numbers for Wonder Woman, or the record-breaking figures for Black Panther. Add Crazy Rich Asians to the increasingly large stack of hits proving to the powers that be that people value representation onscreen and movies that reflect the ethnic diversity of real life and the fact that the human race is 50% female.
| Weekend Box Office Estimates (August 17-19) |
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| W I D E 800+ screens |
PLATFORM / LIMITED excluding prev. wide |
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| 1. 🔺 CRAZY RICH ASIANS $25.2 (cum. $34) *NEW* Review, Michelle Yeoh |
1. THREE IDENTICAL STRANGERS $498k on 276 screens (cum. $10.5) Review |
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| 2. THE MEG $21.1 (cum. $83.7) Review |
2. 🔺 PUZZLE $217k on 108 screens (cum. $733k) |
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| 3. 🔺 MILE 22 $13.6 *NEW* |
3. 🔺 THE MISEDUCATION OF CAMERON POST $138k on 72 screens (cum. $404k) Podcast, Interview |