Movie Reviews and Previews “The Most Anticipated Wedding of the Year” This post is not about that royal wedding. It’s about another wedding. And I don’t mean Princess Eugenie. It’s the “most anticipated wedding of the year” – and I missed it when I was buried in wedding week. What? Only a new trailer for Crazy Rich Asians!?!? You By Lainey • May 23, 2018 01:14 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Crazy Rich Asians at CinemaCon It happened! As I was hoping for last week, Crazy Rich Asians was part of the Warner Bros presentation yesterday at CinemaCon in Vegas. This is evidently why the trailer was delayed until this week, so they could start building momentum for the movie – and it’s working. CRA has By Lainey • Apr 25, 2018 10:10 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Crazy Rich Asians promises lavish romantic drama The trailer for Crazy Rich Asians has FINALLY dropped and OH MY GOD, how much have we missed movies like this? Romantic, funny, SOAPY DRAMA, lavish settings, cars, clothes. I feel like movies like this died with the recession a decade ago, and we’re only just coming back to By Sarah • Apr 23, 2018 01:33 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Crazy Rich…. TEASE! OMG OMG OMG OMG OMG OMG. I need to do that some more, stand by: OMG OMG OMG OMG OMG. FINALLYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYY! If you’re a regular visitor of this site, you know I’ve been waiting, for months now, for the first Crazy Rich Asians trailer. Every day I wake By Lainey • Apr 19, 2018 03:07 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Alamak! CRA covers EW! I cried a little when I saw this on Instagram yesterday – the cover of the new issue of Entertainment Weekly, featuring Constance Wu and Henry Golding, the stars of Crazy Rich Asians, based on the first book in Kevin Kwan’s bestselling series. You know, the one I’ve been By Lainey • Nov 03, 2017 01:23 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Intro for November 1, 2017 Dear Gossips, It was announced yesterday that Crazy Rich Asians, the movie, will be released next summer, on August 17, 2018. The movie is based on the first book in Kevin Kwan’s series. Constance Wu leads an all-Asian cast in a story about obscenely wealthy Asians and their petty By Lainey • Nov 01, 2017 08:51 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Harry Shum Jr is a Crazy Rich Asian So it’s been two weeks since the release of Rich People Problems, the third and final book in Kevin Kwan’s Crazy Rich Asians series. Have you finished yet? Have you started yet? People keep asking me for summer book recommendations. Here’s your summer book recommendation: Crazy Rich By Lainey • Jun 06, 2017 03:34 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews “F-cky F-ck” and Kitty Pong! All kinds of Crazy Rich Asians casting updates! Awkwafina, who just wrapped on Oceans 8, will play Goh Peik Lin, Rachel’s best friend. Rachel, of course, is Constance Wu. Goh Peik Lin lives in Singapore. She and her family sort of give Rachel all the inside baseball on the By Lainey • Apr 26, 2017 04:40 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Sonoya Mizuno is Araminta Lee If you have no idea who Araminta Lee is, it means you haven’t read Crazy Rich Asians. And if you haven’t read Crazy Rich Asians, I’m yelling at you to read Crazy Rich Asians. THR reported yesterday that Sonoya Mizuno has joined the cast of Crazy Rich By Lainey • Apr 11, 2017 01:01 pm
Style Crazy Rich Asians: Astrid and Fashion Porn Crazy Rich Asians, they’re coming! Last week it was announced that Henry Golding has been cast as Nick, the lead male character in the film adaptation of Crazy Rich Asians, joining Constance Wu who’s playing Rachel, and Michelle Yeoh as Eleanor Young. As I mentioned last week, after By Lainey • Apr 04, 2017 03:40 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews They found Nick According to The Hollywood Reporter, they found Nick! Henry Golding has been cast as Nick Young in the Crazy Rich Asians movie. Constance Wu and Michelle Yeoh were already attached to the project as Rachel Chu and Eleanor Young (Nick’s ma). So now they’ve got their two leads, By Lainey • Mar 29, 2017 10:37 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Crazy Rich Michelle Yeoh Constance Wu was confirmed recently as the star of the upcoming film adaptation of Kevin Kwan’s Crazy Rich Asians playing Rachel, who falls in love with Nick, and then finds out Nick is a member of Singapore’s richest craziest family. Yesterday, The Hollywood Reporter reported that Michelle Yeoh By Lainey • Mar 08, 2017 04:44 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Crazy Rich Constance What else was the title for this post going to be? If you’ve been reading this blog for a while you know I’m a big fan of Kevin Kwan’s book Crazy Rich Asians and the follow-up China Rich Girlfriend. Last year I wondered why even though Crazy By Lainey • Feb 16, 2017 10:20 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Intro for October 21, 2016 Dear Gossips, A couple of weeks ago, I wrote about The Hollywood Reporter’s 25 Power Authors list just ahead of the release of The Girl On The Train which went from book to movie in under two years. And then I wondered in that post when it was going By Lainey • Oct 21, 2016 09:36 am