The film’s estimated take jumps to $28 million when Monday’s Labor Day holiday is included. 

The adaptation of Kevin Kwan’s best-selling novel, starring Michelle Yeoh, Henry Golding, and Constance Wu, follows an American economics professor as she meets her super-rich boyfriend’s family in Singapore in a story about the clash of love, family and great wealth. 

Crazy Rich also helped boost the summer box office to what Hollywood Reporter called a “spectacular year-over-year recovery,” with domestic revenue expected to be up 14 percent over last summer. 

 
Warner Bros. meanwhile scored another hit with shark-thriller The Meg, in the No. 2 spot again with takings of $10.5 million. Jason Statham stars as a rescue diver trying to save scientists trapped in a submarine being attacked by a huge, prehistoric shark. 

In the third spot was Tom Cruise adventure film Mission Impossible -- Fallout from Paramount, which took in $7 million. Globally, the action blockbuster has earned $649 million, the best performance of any of the MI films to date. 

Fourth went to MGM’s new Operation Finale, at $6 million and in fifth was Searching from Sony, at $5.7 million.