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Interesting, JCHU is related to Rachel Chu from the book.

Posted by: Antibody on Aug 09, 10:51 in response to slipping jimmy's post Vulture: the long crazy road to Crazy Rich Asians

Perhaps even more fatefully, Chu gets an oblique mention in the book — a byproduct of Kwan’s friendship with Chu’s cousin Vivian, who used to tell the author about her “family back in Cupertino” (which also had the net result of Rachel Chu being written as a Cupertino native).

DL: Crazy Rich Asians sold out most of its paid previews at 354 locations. (not hype) Antibody Aug 09, 09:41

For RollingThunder "Much like Black Panther was a defining film for Black America on the big screen... so is Crazy Rich Asians. " {nm} Antibody Aug 09, 09:42

We'll see. I remain skeptical and conservative with my expectations. I imagine most of those locations would have been demo targeted. {nm} RollingThunder Aug 09, 09:45

You've said more than once that people from rural/regional America get overlooked by people in the big coastal cities because they aren't RogerMore Aug 09, 11:44

Vulture: the long crazy road to Crazy Rich Asians slipping jimmy Aug 09, 10:07

Interesting, JCHU is related to Rachel Chu from the book. Antibody Aug 09, 10:51

That bodes well. It is also highly re-watchable. Lots of times laughter was so loud you couldn't hear the next lines of dialogue. {nm} CSBD Aug 09, 10:19

wife and I are looking forward to the movie, but we watch a lot of rom-coms and to us it's an Asian "Monster-In-Law" =P {nm} tealfan Aug 09, 10:19

they may as well give this the most popular oscar award now {nm} Moviesnob Aug 09, 11:24

We still don't know the criteria. $50M by Dec 31? $75M? $100M? Top 100 film by Dec 31? {nm} Antibody Aug 09, 11:56

Top 100 is too wide, make that Top 25, no more than 50. {nm} Antibody Aug 09, 12:01

Top 25 would have cut out Blade Runner 2049 & Baby Driver. (Though my guess at 2017 nominees is Wonder Woman, Logan, Dunkirk, It & Get Out) {nm} RogerMore Aug 09, 12:35