Crazy Rich Asians has certainly translated into a Crazy Rich Box Office. The Jon M. Chu directed movie, based on the bestselling 2013 novel by Asian-American author Kevin Kwan, has struck gold at the box office, earning over US$86mil (RM353mil) in less than two weeks since it’s release (Read our review here)
This is an Asian story, brought to life by an Asian-American director, featuring an all-Asian cast (plus a Malaysian screenwriter, Adele Lim, who was a Star2 columnist, #ReflectedGlory), all of which is an extreme rarity in Hollywood, as everyone has been saying.