Box Office Battle: 'Crazy Rich Asians' wins weekend with $25.2M debut

Warner Bros. (TWX) "Crazy Rich Asians" led this weekend's box office with a three-day North American debut of $25.2M and a five-day bow of $34M. The movie scored the top opening for a rom-com in three years and the top start of the year for any comedy. "Crazy Rich Asians" earned an A CinemaScore and sports a 92% Rotten Tomatoes score. BOX OFFICE RUNNERS-UP: "The Meg," another Warner Bros. movie, fell to second place, with an estimated $21.2M for a 10-day domestic total of $83.8M. Behind it was STX Entertainment's "Mile 22," ending its debut weekend with $13.6M from 3,520 theaters. Viacom (VIAB) owned Paramount's "Mission: Impossible - Fallout" placed number four, with $10.5M for a cume of $180.8M. Rounding out the top five, Studio 8's "Alpha" grossed an estimated $10.5M from 2,719 locations. Other publicly traded companies in filmmaking include 21st Century Fox (FOXA), Lionsgate's (LGF.A), Comcast (CMCSA; CMCSK), Sony (SNE) and Walt Disney (DIS).