What no one could have imagined is that, years before, Taylor had encountered this same terrifying creature. This might be enough to give Warner Bros. It depends on how much the studio will end up spending on advertising. It earned first place in the U. Crazy Rich Asians was in a close third place and overall the box office was quite strong. Firstly, this weekend last year was the weekend It debuted and rewrote the record book. This is easily the best opening in the franchise so far and the best opening for a Warner Bros. At this point, the maks is almost guaranteed a massive profit, despite is awful reviews and its mere C from CinemaScore. Even if it earns less during the rest of its run than it opened with, which is too pessimistic, it will still be a major financial success.
Following hits like «The Shallows» and «47 Meters Down,» the shark movie — 43 years after Steven Spielberg’s «Jaws» — has been showing surprising bite at the box office. Jeff Goldstein, distribution chief for Warner Bros. The last movie, as kids are going back to school. All the big blockbusters have played off. We’re in a space by ourselves. More: The top 10 killer shark movies, definitively ranked from ‘Jaws’ to ‘The Meg’. Traditionally a sleepy time at the box office, August has helped cement a comeback summer for the movie business. Weekend business was up 25 percent from last year, and the summer is up For Warner Bros. After two weeks at No. The film’s 15 percent «rotten» Rotten Tomatoes rating probably didn’t help. Audiences also gave it a seldom seen D-minus on CinemaScore. The overall box office continues to be a roll, one that could continue next week with the landmark «Crazy Rich Asians. The navigation could not be loaded.
Hidden Remote
Late last week, it seemed as though the very expensive, very Stathamy underwater thriller The Meg was on its way to becoming a dead shark. Even though the film—an adaptation of the novel by Steve Alten—had an online fanbase more than 20 years old , most predictions pointed toward a relatively low opening weekend at the box office. So were the The Meg ‘s mostly meh reviews. That turnout helped obliterate the weekend’s other long-in-the-works thriller: Slender Man , the adaptation?
The Walt Disney Studios originally purchased the film rights to the book in the s, but after several years in development hell , the rights landed at Warner Bros. The movie was eventually greenlit in Turteltaub and much of the cast joined by September , and filming began the following month in New Zealand and ended in Sanya , China, on January A sequel is in development. Rescue diver Jonas Taylor is attempting to save the crew of a damaged nuclear submarine when he sees the hull of the sub being rammed by a giant creature. Two of his crew are trapped in the damaged sub; Taylor is forced to flee, realizing that attempting rescue would result in the death of everyone on the deep-submergence rescue vehicle. Moments later, the nuclear sub explodes. Taylor’s account of the story is dismissed by fellow survivor Dr. Heller, who believes that Taylor turned coward due to pressure-induced psychosis. Five years later, billionaire Jack Morris meets Dr. Zhang and his daughter, Suyin, an oceanographer , supervise a mission to explore what could be an even deeper section of the Mariana Trench , concealed by a thermocline of hydrogen sulfide. Their theory proves true as they discover an abundance of never-seen flora and fauna below the thermocline. A large creature collides with the submersible and causes it to lose contact with Mana One. Suyin attempts the rescue in their absence but is attacked by a giant squid. Taylor, having agreed to help, reaches Mana One and saves Lori and The Wall, but Toshi realizes he needs to sacrifice himself if he wants his friends to live. When the shark returns, he shuts the hatch to the bigger sub, allowing the others to escape while he diverts the creature’s attention. Back at Mana One, the crew discovers that the giant shark is a megalodon , the largest shark ever discovered and thought to be extinct for two million years. While discussing how to deal with it, Suyin’s daughter Meiying witnesses the shark outside the observation ring, as it bisects a humpback whale in one bite. The crew realizes that it followed them through a temporary break they caused in the thermocline, allowing it to escape. The team resolves to go out and first track the meg and then kill it with poison, with Suyin in a shark-proof tank. However, the mission goes awry when after the shark is injected, the meg is large enough to swallow the cage and in doing so, cracks Suyin’s mask, making her lose oxygen. Taylor then gets her out as she blacks out only to have the meg return. However, it gets snagged on the wire connecting the cage to the ship, stalling it long enough to kill it. In their moment of triumph, a second much larger megalodon emerges, killing The Wall, devouring the dead megalodon and fatally wounding Zhang. Heller sacrifices himself to save Jaxx. Morris enlists a mercenary team to depth-charge the shark, but Morris falls overboard in the failed attempt a whale was killed and he is killed. Receiving no assistance from surrounding governments, Taylor and the remaining Mana One crew resolve to track and kill the shark on their own. The megalodon is en route to a crowded beach on Sanya Bay in China. It kills several beachgoers before the Mana One crew projects audio of a whale call to divert the shark’s attention toward them.
The Walt Disney Studios originally purchased the film rights to the book in the s, but after several years in development hellthe rights landed at Warner Bros. The movie was eventually greenlit in Turteltaub and much of the cast joined by Septemberand filming began the following month in New Zealand and ended in SanyaChina, on January A sequel is in development. Rescue diver Jonas Taylor is attempting to save the crew of a damaged nuclear submarine when he sees the hull of the sub being rammed by a giant creature.
Two of his crew are trapped in the damaged sub; Taylor is forced to flee, realizing that attempting rescue would result in the death of everyone on the deep-submergence rescue vehicle. Moments later, the nuclear sub explodes. Taylor’s account of the story is dismissed by fellow survivor Dr. Heller, who believes that Taylor turned coward due to pressure-induced psychosis. Five years later, billionaire Jack Morris meets Dr. Zhang and his daughter, Suyin, an oceanographersupervise a mission to explore what could be an even deeper section of the Mariana Trenchconcealed by a thermocline of hydrogen sulfide.
Their theory proves true as they discover an abundance of never-seen flora and fauna below the thermocline. A large creature collides with the submersible and causes it to lose contact with Mana One. Suyin attempts the rescue in their absence but is attacked by a giant squid. Taylor, having agreed to help, reaches Mana One and saves Lori and The Wall, but Toshi realizes he needs to sacrifice himself if he wants his friends to live.
When the shark returns, he shuts the hatch to the bigger sub, allowing the others to escape while he diverts the creature’s attention. Back at Mana One, the crew discovers that the giant shark is a megalodonthe largest shark ever discovered and thought to be extinct for two million years. While discussing how to deal with it, Suyin’s daughter Meiying witnesses the shark outside the observation ring, as it bisects a humpback whale in one bite.
The crew realizes that it followed them through a temporary break they caused in the thermocline, allowing it to escape. The team resolves to go out and first track the meg and then kill it with poison, with Suyin in a shark-proof tank. However, the mission goes awry when after the shark is injected, the meg is large enough to swallow the cage and in doing so, cracks Suyin’s mask, making her lose oxygen. Taylor then gets her out as she blacks out only to have the meg return.
However, it gets snagged on the wire connecting the cage to the ship, stalling it long enough to kill it. In their moment of triumph, a second much larger megalodon emerges, killing The Wall, devouring the dead megalodon and fatally wounding Zhang.
Heller sacrifices himself to save Jaxx. Morris enlists a mercenary team to depth-charge the shark, but Morris falls overboard in the failed attempt a whale was killed and he is killed. Receiving no assistance from surrounding governments, Taylor and the remaining Mana One crew resolve to track and kill the shark on their. The megalodon is en route to a crowded beach on Sanya Bay in China.
It kills several beachgoers before the Mana One crew projects audio of a whale call to divert the shark’s attention toward. Taylor then chooses to sacrifice himself to kill the Megalodon after Suyin is put out of action to save the.
Taylor manages to cut the megalodon’s abdomen with his sub, as well as stab it in the eye with poison. Other sharks, attracted by the megalodon’s blood, approach and devour the immobilized megalodon. One of the sharks starts swimming towards Taylor. Before it can eat him, Suyin hits it with her sub. The rights to the novel were initially acquired by Disney ‘s Hollywood Pictures in Boam’s script was later rejected for the same reason. However, New Line later cancelled the project due to budgetary concerns.
Init was announced that the film was now moving forward at Warner Bros. The visual effects team was challenged with not only designing a previously undiscovered prehistoric giant shark, but also designing the underwater environments and atmospherics, including realistic coral reefs, bubbles, and other sea life.
Pictures in the United States, the film was originally scheduled to be released on March 2, The first official trailer was released on April 9, The site’s critical consensus reads, » The Meg sets audiences up for a good old-fashioned B-movie creature feature, but lacks the genre thrills — or the cheesy bite — to make it worth diving in. Owen Gleiberman of Variety gave the film a mixed review, calling it «neither good enough — nor bad enough,» and writing, » The Mega rote sci-fi horror adventure film that features a shark the size of a blue whale, comes on like it wants to be the mother of all deep-sea attack movies.
But it’s really just the mother of all generically pandering, totally unsurprising Jaws ripoffs. In AprilJason Statham said a Meg sequel would happen if the film did well with the public, saying «I think it’s like anything in this day and age — if it makes money, there’s obviously an appetite to make more money. And if it doesn’t do well, they’ll soon sweep it under the carpet.
But that’s the way Hollywood works. But to be done right you had to get the shark right, get the cast right, get the tone right. And Warner Bros. The producers have nailed it. In Octoberexecutive producer Catherine Xujun Ying announced a sequel was in the early stages of development. In Marchit was announced that a script for the film was in the works.
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Theatrical release poster. British Board of Film Classification. July 5, Retrieved July 5, The Hollywood Reporter. Prometheus Global Media. Retrieved August 8, Deadline Hollywood. Penske Business Media. Retrieved August 11, Box Office Mojo. Retrieved December 22, Retrieved August 20, April 13, Los Angeles Times. The Tracking Board. Retrieved September 17, Complex Media. Retrieved August 10, United Press International.
January 13, Retrieved August 13, VFX Voice. Retrieved September 11, Retrieved September 21, Pictures April 9, Retrieved June 26, Retrieved October 3, Retrieved August 12, Retrieved August 19, Retrieved August 26, Rotten Tomatoes.
Retrieved August 9, Ziff Davis. Retrieved August 16, YouTube: Razzie Channel. Retrieved Writer Steve Alten on the potential ‘billion dollar franchise ‘ «. Archived from the original on March 31, Retrieved November 2, Films directed by Jon Turteltaub. Novels by Steve Alten. Goliath The Loch Categories : films Meg series horror films s action thriller films s monster movies s science fiction action films 3D films American films American action thriller films American monster movies American science fiction action films American action horror films English-language films Films about sharks Films based on American thriller novels Films based on science fiction novels Films directed by Jon Turteltaub Films produced by Gerald R.
Namespaces Article Talk. Views Read Edit View history.
A group of scientists exploring the Marianas Trench encounter the largest marine predator that has ever existed — the Megalodon. All rights reserved. Conditions of Use and Privacy Policy under which this service is provided to you. The Meg A group of scientists exploring the Marianas Trench encounter the largest marine predator that has ever existed — the Megalodon. Title Summary. All Releases Original Release. Grosses Domestic International Summary Details. Distributor Warner Bros. See full company information. Release Date Aug 10, — Nov 1, Columbus Day. Aug 10, Aug 11, Aug 12, Aug 13, Aug 14, Aug 15, Aug 16,
Comments
Post a Comment