Tag: Crazy Rich Asians
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‘Crazy Rich Asians’ Director Jon M. Chu on Breaking Barriers and Being Proud of Your Work [Interview]
Crazy Rich Asians is helping to bring a so-so summer moviegoing season to an end with a bang. Director Jon M. Chu has not only made a romantic comedy that’s the sort of charming, character-driven studio spectacle we want but rarely see this time of year, but also a movie that’s touching a lot of…
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Box Office: ‘Crazy Rich Asians’ to Pocket $5.3 Million on Wednesday
“Crazy Rich Asians” is on track for a dazzling debut.Warner Bros.’ highly anticipated romantic comedy is expected to generate $5.3 million on Wednesday, according to early estimates. If projections hold, “Crazy Rich Asians” is heading for a weekend total of $19 million and a five-day tally of $27.5 million-plus. Some tracking predicts the movie, which…
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‘Alpha,’ ‘The Meg’ Top Studios’ TV Ad Spending
In this week’s edition of the Variety Movie Commercial Tracker, powered by the TV advertising attention analytics company iSpot.tv, Columbia Pictures claims the top spot in spending with “Alpha.”Ads placed for the drama had an estimated media value of $5.08 million through Sunday for 1,589 national ad airings on 45 networks. (Spend figures are based…
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Is ‘Crazy Rich Asians’ Looking at a Crazy Rich Opening Weekend?
This weekend gets off to an early start with the Wednesday release of the much-anticipated romantic comedy Crazy Rich Asians, the first Asian-led studio film to hit theaters since The Joy Luck Club. While Joy Luck Club didn’t play in any more than 600 theaters during its run 25 years ago, Crazy Rich Asians will…
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Crazy Rich Asians review – glossy rom-com is a vital crowd-pleaser
The adaptation of Kevin Kwan’s bestselling novel is both a fun culture clash comedy and a watershed moment for representation in HollywoodWith a premise straight from classic literature and fairy tales, Crazy Rich Asians is a transportive romcom about a poor girl who finds her Prince Charming – and is then thrown into the extravagant,…
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Gemma Chan: ‘Is it better to give or to receive? Are we talking about oral sex?’
The actor on Time’s Up, saving a stabbing victim and the joy of jigsawsBorn in London, Gemma Chan, 35, grew up in Kent. She studied law at the University of Oxford before training at drama school. She went on to appear in Sherlock and Fresh Meat, before starring in the Channel 4 sci-fi drama Humans.…
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‘It’s not a movie, it’s a moment’: Crazy Rich Asians takes on Hollywood
The film adaptation of Kevin Kwan’s 2013 best-selling novel is the first all-Asian Hollywood film in 25 years – does it signal a new dawn for representation in cinema?If you didn’t know the backstory of forthcoming film Crazy Rich Asians, you would think it was fiction. Based on Kevin Kwan’s 2013 best-selling novel, the movie…
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‘Crazy Rich Asians’ Is 100 Percent ‘Fresh’ on Rotten Tomatoes, but Some Miss the Book’s ‘Venom’
Warner Bros.’ sumptuous adaptation of bestselling novel “Crazy Rich Asians” impressed most early critics, who also regretted how much weight will be placed on its box-office performance. Not since Rob Marshall–helmed “Memoirs of a Geisha” (2005) has there been a studio film centered on an Asian cast, while 1993’s “The Joy Luck Club” was the…
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‘Crazy Rich Asians’ Review: Jon M. Chu’s Groundbreaking Rom-Com Is a Lush, Loving, Wildly Entertaining Ride
The broad strokes of Kevin Kwan’s bestselling, compulsively readable “Crazy Rich Asians” trilogy are familiar enough: it’s a girl meets boy story — and a girl-meets-boy’s-deranged-family story — the kind of subject matter that’s always ripe for a rom-com. But Kwan’s books, loosely based on his own coming-of-age in Singapore, take that classic narrative and…
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Crazy Rich Asians: You Might Not Recognize Nick Now, but You Will
Josh in Clueless. Joe in You’ve Got Mail. Mark Darcy in Bridget Jones’s Diary. Rom-com heroes are some of the biggest fan favorites in film. More and more, they’re played by established actors with built-in fan bases, although that’s not always the case: some of your favorite characters were played by actors before they were…