While the shark thriller The Meg defied initial box office predictions, it is still a high-budget, high-concept studio movie of the type that frequently makes a box office splash. The real break-out movie of the month is Crazy Rich Asians, the modestly-budgeted romantic comedy which has maintained its hold of the top of the US box office chart in its second week of release, with very little audience fall-off.
Crazy Rich Asians dropped just 5.7% from last week, to make a hugely impressive $24.8 million over its second three-day weekend. To date, it has made $76 million in the US, and Box Office Mojo suggests that it could finish its run having grossed more than $150 million domestically, from a production budget of just $30 million.
The Meg held second place, and made $12.8 million, which brings its US total to $105 million. The week’s highest new entry was the R-rated puppet comedy The Happytime Murders. This movie has been met with largely negative reviews and made only $9 million despite playing on over 3,200 screens.
The week’s only other new entry was the sci-fi adventure movie A.X.L, which made just $2.9 million and barely scraped into the Top 10. The rest of chart sees many of the month’s releases remain steady–Mission Impossible: Fallout and Disney’s Christopher Robin stay in place at No.4 and No.6 respectively, while the action thriller Mile 22 slips to No.5. The adventure movie Alpha, Spike Lee’s acclaimed BlackKklansman, and the horror movie Slender Man make up the rest of the chart.
You can see the full Top 10 list for the August 24-26 US box office below, as compiled by Box Office Mojo.
US/Canada Box Office For August 24-26:
- Crazy Rich Asians – $24.80 million
- The Meg– $12.81 million
- The Happytime Murders – $9.53 million
- Mission Impossible: Fallout – $8.08 million
- Mile 22 – $6.36 million
- Disney’s Christopher Robin – $6.26 million
- Alpha – $6.0 million
- BlacKkKlansman – $5.09 million
- Slender Man – $2.79 million
- A.X.L. – $2.78 million
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