‘Crazy Rich Asians’ has biggest Labor Day weekend box office in years

Constance Wu in box office hit “Crazy Rich Asians.”Color Force/IMDB

• “Crazy Rich Asians” wins the domestic box office for a third-straight weekend, earning around $30 million by Labor Day, once again outperforming industry projections.
• It’s the best Labor Day weekend performance in 11 years.
• It also marks the fourth straight weekend Warner Bros. has topped the domestic box office, going back to when it won the weekend in early August with “The Meg.”

The Labor Day holiday weekend has traditionally been slow at the multiplex, as all the big summer hits have come and gone and none of the fall award season titles have come out yet.

But like everything that’s happened in theaters this year, even Labor Day is performing above expectations.

Warner Bros.’ hit “Crazy Rich Asians” won the domestic weekend box office for a third-straight weekend, with $22.2 million earned over the weekend (just a minuscule 10% drop compared to last weekend) and around $30 million by Labor Day.

That’s the best Labor Day weekend performance in 11 years. The only other movie to hit $30 million over the four-day Labor Day holiday weekend was 2007’s “Halloween.”

“Crazy Rich Asians” now has a domestic total of $111 million, exceeding the expectations of Warner Bros., which has already greenlit a sequel from the Kevin Kwan series of books.

The end of the summer has been great for Warner Bros. This marks the fourth-straight weekend the studio has won the domestic box office, going back to early August when its Jason Statham shark movie, “The Meg,” won the weekend.

That title has also kept a nice pace domestically, coming in second place this weekend with $10.5 million and now totaling $112 million domestically (over $450 million worldwide).

This performance by Warner Bros. titles to close the summer proved that sequels weren’t the only thing that fueled the season, which had a $4.8 billion total in 2018 — a far cry from last summer’s awful 11-year low 3.86 billion.