Box Office

Crazy Rich Asians is getting richer and richer in the US, as the Jon M. Chu directed film dominated the box office for a third week in a row.

The global box office chart this week was dominated by Ant-Man and the Wasp. And no, this is not a mix-up with a report from seven weeks ago, when the second installment of the Disney and Marvel’s franchise had its domestic and international debut.

It’s a prehistoric monster versus some crazy rich Asians, at this week’s box office. On the domestic (the U.

In the summer of 1975 audiences were thrilled by a film about a scary shark terrorizing beachgoers. It was called Jaws, it made Steven Spielberg a household name and it was followed by many other shark movies, including Deep Blue Sea, The Shallows in 2016 and, last year, 47 Meters Down.

In the box office lexicon, a “drop” refers to how much a movie’s revenues have fallen in its second outing, following the opening weekend. The drop is important, as it offers a pretty accurate way to project the final outcome of that particular film’s life in theaters around the world.

When The Mummy and Jack Reacher turned out to be box office disappointments, commentators were quick to claim that Tom Cruise was incapable of accepting that age eventually catches up with all of us, him included. He was history.

We have seen this plot before. Major blockbuster on the way.

He is considered to be the biggest star in the world. He has even been flirting with the idea of running for President some day.

So, who’s the real winner at the global box office this week? According to most reports out of the United States, it’s Ant-Man and the Wasp, which generated $76 million domestically and $85 million internationally for a global gross of $161 million. Numbers not comparable with Avengers: Infinity War or Black Panther earlier this year, but the 20th film by the Marvel Cinematic Universe starring Paul Rudd as the titular superhero and Evangeline Lilly as the Wasp always had smaller ambitions.

It was only last summer when a drop in the box office generated major panic in the film industry. It was supposed to mark the beginning of the end of the summer blockbuster, as audiences grew tired of seeing over again the same heroes and super-heroes.