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 Crazy Rich Asians - What Went Right? 
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Post Crazy Rich Asians - What Went Right?
It had a modest opening day of $5m before strong WOM spread to a $26.5m opening weekend.

Now, it already has $110.9m in just 19 days with much more to come. This will now become the highest grosser for any comedy domestically since Ted.


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Post Re: Crazy Rich Asians - What Went Right?
As with every success story, it's never just one thing. The book was popular and there are a lot of Asians in the US. It's also apparently feel-good, and as we know the film's target demographic is often under-served, so when one comes along that connects the WOM spreads like a Californian wildfire. A little bit of its success is down to white America using it as a culture treat. Oh, and the reviews helped greatly.


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I'd say it's more like Greek wedding where people think they are experiencing a new culture while watching a feel good movie.


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Post Re: Crazy Rich Asians - What Went Right?
Romance is a lucrative genre when they try, like everything else it needs a good concept and execution, but with half the population being women it's a joke there aren't more anticipated releases in the genre

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It lucrative but a joke :er:


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Post Re: Crazy Rich Asians - What Went Right?
Using the logic that black people boosted the box office numbers for Black Panther, perhaps crazy people boosted it for Crazy Rich Asians.


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Lol


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The Prince and Me has been developing a cult following for years and they were hungry for something new.


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Post Re: Crazy Rich Asians - What Went Right?
I have no idea because I thought the trailers were unfunny, the actress meh and even after watching it wasn't that impressed but I guess the book was way more popular than I thought. The reviews were Stellar so that helps and clunkers competing against it helped too. Now it's just that type of film folks keep recommending other folks Must go see.

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Post Re: Crazy Rich Asians - What Went Right?
Curious to analyze the reasons why certain films start off with very low drops and then experience steeper declines.

First three weekends - WOM spreads to the curious and inner circles of the excited ‘early adopters

Subsequent weeks rely on casual moviegoers, those curious about the hype but weren’t on a rush. .

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