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Box Office Top 20: ‘Crazy Rich Asians’ No. 1 for third week
LOS ANGELES (AP) — The glitzy romance “Crazy Rich Asians” topped the North American box office over Labor Day weekend, its third consecutive weekend in the No. 1 spot.
The Warner Bros. film added $28.6 mil- lion over the four-day weekend, bringing its domestic grosses to $117.3 million.
The shark thriller “The Meg” landed in second place in its fourth weekend, with $13.8 million, while “Mission: Impossible — Fallout” slid into third place with an additional $9.3 million, bumping it past the $200 million mark in its sixth weekend in theaters.
Newcomer “Operation Finale” debuted in fourth place with $7.8 million, while “Searching,” which expanded to 1,207 loca- tions, snagged fifth place with $7.6 million.
The top 20 movies at U.S. and Canadian theaters Friday through Monday, followed by distribution studio, gross, number of theater locations, average receipts per lo- cation, total gross and number of weeks in release, as compiled Tuesday by comScore:
1. “Crazy Rich Asians,” Warner Bros., $28,576,222, 3,865 locations, $7,394 aver- age, $117,303,610, 3 Weeks.
2. “The Meg,” Warner Bros., $13,816,467, 3,761 locations, $3,674 average, $123,802,883, 4 Weeks.
3. “Mission: Impossible - Fallout,” Para- mount, $9,315,171, 2,639 locations, $3,530 average, $206,661,700, 6 Weeks.
4. “Operation Finale,” MGM, $7,874,583, 1,818 locations, $4,331 average, $9,601,678, 1 Week.
5. “Searching,” Sony, $7,615,035, 1,207 locations, $6,309 average, $8,123,515, 2 Weeks.
6. “Disney’s Christopher Robin,” Disney, $7,200,627, 2,925 locations, $2,462 aver- age, $87,609,495, 5 Weeks.
7. “Alpha,” Sony, $6,041,852, 2,881 locations, $2,097 average, $28,964,072, 3 Weeks.
8. “BlacKkKlansman,” Focus Features, $5,649,155, 1,766 locations, $3,199 aver- age, $39,841,980, 4 Weeks.
9. “The Happytime Murders,” STX En-
tertainment, $5,393,676, 3,256 locations, $1,657 average, $18,009,370, 2 Weeks.
10. “Mile 22,” STX Entertainment, $4,813,948, 2,950 locations, $1,632 aver- age, $33,000,282, 3 Weeks.
11. “Incredibles 2,” Disney, $4,718,468, 2,890 locations, $1,633 average, $602,579,381, 12 Weeks.
12. “Kin,” Lionsgate, $3,867,703, 2,141 locations, $1,806 average, $3,867,703, 1 Week.
13. “Hotel Transylvania 3: Summer Va- cation,” Sony, $2,943,417, 1,421 locations, $2,071 average, $162,844,423, 8 Weeks.
14. “Ya Veremos,” Lionsgate, $2,259,362, 369 locations, $6,123 average, $2,259,362, 1 Week.
15. “Slender Man,” Sony, $2,200,786, 1,534 locations, $1,435 average, $28,560,595, 4 Weeks.
16. “Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom,” Universal, $1,925,330, 1,556 locations, $1,237 average, $415,210,470, 11 Weeks.
17. “A.X.L.,” Open Road, $1,889,688, 1,710 locations, $1,105 average, $5,674,623, 2 Weeks.
18. “The Equalizer 2,” Sony, $1,846,665,
1,476 locations, $1,251 average, $100,748,027, 7 Weeks.
19. “Ant-Man and the Wasp,” Disney, $1,817,399, 830 locations, $2,190 average, $213,977,857, 9 Weeks.
20. “Mamma Mia! Here We Go Again,” Universal, $1,672,650, 1,010 locations, $1,656 average, $118,120,770, 7 Weeks.
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Universal and Focus are owned by NBC Universal, a unit of Comcast Corp.; Sony, Columbia, Sony Screen Gems and Sony Pictures Classics are units of Sony Corp.; Paramount is owned by Viacom Inc.; Disney, Pixar and Marvel are owned by The Walt Disney Co.; Miramax is owned by Filmyard Holdings LLC; 20th Century Fox and Fox Searchlight are owned by 21st Century Fox; Warner Bros. and New Line are units of Time Warner Inc.; MGM is owned by a group of former creditors in- cluding Highland Capital, Anchorage Ad- visors and Carl Icahn; Lionsgate is owned by Lions Gate Entertainment Corp.; IFC
is owned by AMC Networks Inc.; Rogue is owned by Relativity Media LLC.
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