WASHINGTON: Rom-com “Crazy Rich Asians” continued to sparkle in North America, topping the box office for the second weekend running, according to industry estimates Sunday.
The Warner Bros. adaptation of Kevin Kwan’s best-selling novel of the same name took $25 million, almost matching its $26.5 million debut last week, box office tracker Exhibitor Relations said.
Starring veteran actress Michelle Yeoh, British-Malaysian former BBC host Henry Golding and American sitcom star Constance Wu, the film tells the story of an American economics professor who meets her super-wealthy boyfriend’s family in Singapore.
It is the first major studio release with a mostly Asian cast since “The Joy Luck Club” in 1993.
