The Meg | Aug 10 2018 | WB-China co-production | IMAX 3D | Jon Turteltaub directing. Jason Statham fights a shark. Li Bingbing replaces Fan Bingbing.

[Alli]

6 minutes ago, MrGlass2 said:

Especially for The Divergent series.

the young adult craze started to fade by the time they released the latest movies

[Barnack]

10 minutes ago, MrGlass2 said:

Especially for The Divergent series.

Would like to look at the book sales the 2 month before release for those also, would not surprise me if it was a good correlation also.

 

(sales numbers are physical no e-sales and does not include WalMart and some other major outlet, so they can use to be compared by book released around the same time targeting similar audience but are not indication of the total sales)

 

Twilight sold 1.173m book the 8 weeks before domestic release in the domestic market and 3.89m in total before it did open, 70m OW

Hunger games sold 1.63m book the 8 weeks before it domestic release and 5.39m in total before it's OW, 152.5m OW.

Divergent sold 660k in 8 week and 2.3m in total 54m.

Fault in our star 1.49 in 8 week, 2.68m total, 48m OW.

 

OW / Book sold before release 

twilight: 18

HG: 28.3

Divergent: 23.5

fault: 17.9

 

Using the salse book just the months before the release

Twilight: 60

HG: 93.5

Divergent:  81

Fault: 32

 

[MrGlass2]

23 minutes ago, Barnack said:

Would like to look at the book sales the 2 month before release for those also, would not surprise me if it was a good correlation also.

It was a bad joke about the non-Existent last (half-)book adaptation, but as usual you wrote a much better reply than the post merited.

[dxmatrixdt]

Megalodon, Halloween, IT, Slender Man....  their loss.

[aabattery]

 

[filmlover]

2 minutes ago, aabattery said:

 

[MrGamer]

6 minutes ago, aabattery said:

 

Welp, I'm sold.

[Boxofficerules]

When does the review embargo end?

[filmlover]

2 hours ago, Boxofficerules said:

When does the review embargo end?

Next Tuesday/Wednesday/early Thursday like all WB movies.

[DAR]

 

[KeepItU25071906]

26 minutes ago, DAR said:

 

When I see this reaction which based on primitive pattern/template, this even worse than dumb movie about giant shark. Oh wait... is this JTE? I get it.

[el sid]

That's exactly how I felt about that comment .

I don't think The Meg will come close to e.g. Skull Islands OW. It's just fun. But did you see? Boxoffice.com lifted their prediction up 62% to 23.5M/60M total now (Slender Man 15.5M/40M).
Of course I still have no idea how it will do. I only saw that at Pulse it was always popping up a few times when I counted e.g. Christopher Robin. So among the movies released next week The Meg was clearly in front and in the first half of the week Slender Man was #2, later BlacKkKlansman.
Saw that The Meg gets at least 3.900 theaters next weekend, not bad.

Edited August 3, 2018 by el sid

[JB33]

Has anyone here read the books? How are they? Picked up the first one yesterday for the hell of it.

[Yandereprime101189]

First two were great, the rest.....not as much

[Gavin Feng]

friend saw the film in Beijing Premiere. Again it’s that kind of action movie that Chinese audience would enjoy.

[Godzilla]

This legit looks like a total blast. WB are really great at last minute campaigning so we could get a $35M+ OW. Also legs should be good considering how barren the rest of the month is and a boost from Labor Day weekend. Looks like a film that China would love. 

 

My current prediction: 

 

OW - $30M 

DOM - $85M 

China - $110M 

WW - $350M 

 

Could see it doing more. 

Edited August 4, 2018 by Godzilla

[Alli]

On 8/4/2018 at 4:24 PM, Godzilla said:

This legit looks like a total blast. WB are really great at last minute campaigning so we could get a $35M+ OW. Also legs should be good considering how barren the rest of the month is and a boost from Labor Day weekend. Looks like a film that China would love. 

 

My current prediction: 

 

OW - $30M 

DOM - $85M 

China - $110M 

WW - $350M 

 

Could see it doing more. 

yeah, WB is usually good with their marketing.  

 

we haven't seen a shark movie in a while. the shallows managed almost 17M OW.   The Meg has a lot more going for it. it's bigger in scope and i suspect it has a bigger marketing budget. it also opens in way more theaters

[Boxofficerules]

When does the review embargo drop?

[filmlover]

Just now, Boxofficerules said:

When does the review embargo drop?

Wednesday like all WB films do in all likelihood.

[Ezen Baklattan]

After this can Jon Turtletaub make Nationals Treasure 3? Asking for a friend.