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

[Pure Spirit]

Saw it last night, refreshingly entertaining. Appreciated the WMAF romance being played straight, not as some exotic thing, and as equals. Nice to have representation of your existing relationship in Hollywood.

[Pure Spirit]

People calling The Meg dumb, compared to Fallen Kingdom it's working on its 3rd PhD.

[dudalb]

1 hour ago, DMan7 said:

So anyone anticipating Meg 2 or nah?

It's going to be borderline for a sequel.  At least a 260 Million break even point (if you accept the lowest figure...130 Million...being tossed around as the budget for this; it could well be considerably higher) which means it would have to clean up overseas to get a sequel.

[Barnack]

The cost of next one matter a lot in the decision of making an other MEG, if they have a 130m sequel in mind than an easier green light that if it is a 190m like the rumored first one.

[Barnack]

54 minutes ago, Pure Spirit said:

People calling The Meg dumb, compared to Fallen Kingdom it's working on its 3rd PhD.

I am a bit baffled by this, does anyone ever referred to Fallen Kingdom has not-dumb ? Even the biggest fans of the movie ?

[DAJK]

1 hour ago, Pure Spirit said:

People calling The Meg dumb, compared to Fallen Kingdom it's working on its 3rd PhD.

No way IMO. Fallen Kingdom at least had some really inventive setpieces and visually stunning directing. The Meg, while not terrible, was pretty bland and felt very ''studio conveyor belt''

[TheManFromBeyond]

1 hour ago, DMan7 said:

So anyone anticipating Meg 2 or nah?

Hell yeah brother.

[75Live]

I'm hoping for a sequel but never know what will happen

[Yandereprime101189]

The sequels to the book introduced a Meg that ended up becoming sorta the equivalent of the Jurassic Park/World T-Rex, devouring people and occasionally helping people indirectly. Put her in it and introduce some of the other aquatic animals that featured in the sequel - which were mostly Mosasaur like monsters.

[MrGlass2]

Great second weekend in China, it will beat DOM after all!

[a2k]

Used to think if Meg had DJ instead of Statham then the movie could do well globally but the movie's performance, especially dom, has given a lot of food for thought in estimate boxoffice based on star power.

[MrGlass2]

9 minutes ago, a2k said:

Used to think if Meg had DJ instead of Statham then the movie could do well globally but the movie's performance, especially dom, has given a lot of food for thought in estimate boxoffice based on star power.

Or it shows the new power of another star.

 

[WrathOfHan]

10 minutes ago, a2k said:

Used to think if Meg had DJ instead of Statham then the movie could do well globally but the movie's performance, especially dom, has given a lot of food for thought in estimate boxoffice based on star power.

The Meg had DJ though!

 

[Firepower]

I thought The Meg is much better than Fallen Kingdom. The Meg doesn't take itself too seriously and has a lot of fun with it. Fallen Kingdom takes itself extremely seriously and it's insultingly dumb at the same time. Even in its dumbest moments The Meg didn't reach the dumbest moments of Fallen Kingdom, which were embarassing.

[TombRaider]

6 hours ago, MrGlass2 said:

Or it shows the new power of another star.

 

lol. this dude's had like 10 movies where he leads and they barely do 20m dom

 

15	The Bank Job	LGF	$30,060,660	1,613	$5,935,256	1,603	3/7/08
16	The Mechanic	CBS	$29,121,498	2,704	$11,422,006	2,703	1/28/11
17	Crank	LGF	$27,838,408	2,515	$10,457,367	2,515	9/1/06
18	The Transporter	Fox	$25,296,447	2,610	$9,107,816	2,573	10/11/02
19	Killer Elite	ORF	$25,124,966	2,986	$9,352,008	2,986	9/23/11
20	WAR	LGF	$22,486,409	2,277	$9,820,089	2,277	8/24/07
21	Mechanic: Resurrection	LG/S	$21,218,403	2,258	$7,456,525	2,258	8/26/16
22	Homefront	ORF	$20,158,898	2,570	$6,915,241	2,570	11/27/13
23	Parker	FD	$17,616,641	2,238	$7,008,222	2,224	1/25/13
24	Safe (2012)	LGF	$17,142,080	2,271	$7,892,539	2,266	4/27/12
25	Crank: High Voltage	LGF	$13,684,249	2,223	$6,963,565	2,223	4/17/09

[Zakiyyah6]

I like Statham but he did not open The Meg. WB's great marketing and the big shark did. And that's not a dig, it's a hit for him but lets not ignore his entire box office record outside of The Meg. He can't even open a film to 15mil, he's lucky if his films hit a 9mil opening weekend. Even Dwayne Johnson's flop SkyScraper opened better than all of Statham's films sans The Meg. 

[The Futurist]

4 minutes ago, Zakiyyah6 said:

I like Statham but he did not open The Meg. WB's great marketing and the big shark did. And that's not a dig, it's a hit for him but lets not ignore his entire box office record outside of The Meg. He can't even open a film to 15mil, he's lucky if his films hit a 9mil opening weekend. Even Dwayne Johnson's flop SkyScraper opened better than all of Statham's films sans The Meg. 

Statham was born in the wrong era.

He would have caused a great disturbance in the force in the 80's and 90's.

[MrGlass2]

1 hour ago, TombRaider said:

lol. this dude's had like 10 movies where he leads and they barely do 20m dom

Raegr you need to read every word:

7 hours ago, MrGlass2 said:

Or it shows the new power of another star.

Statham was a known quantity, an action movie star in an era with few big-budget action films. But it is possible he reached a new level by joining the one action franchise: Fast and Furious.

 

8/10/18	The Meg	WB	$68,409,062	4,118	$45,402,195	4,118	7
4/14/17	The Fate of the Furious	Uni.	$226,008,385	4,329	$98,786,705	4,310	2
8/26/16	Mechanic: Resurrection	LG/S	$21,218,403	2,258	$7,456,525	2,258	21
6/5/15	Spy	Fox	$110,825,712	3,715	$29,085,719	3,711	3
4/3/15	Furious 7	Uni.	$353,007,020	4,022	$147,187,040	4,004	1

 

And that is only domestically. According to Deadline, he already has a following in China; with The Meg and the F&F spin-off, it will only get stronger.

 

[Jonwo]

1 hour ago, Zakiyyah6 said:

I like Statham but he did not open The Meg. WB's great marketing and the big shark did. And that's not a dig, it's a hit for him but lets not ignore his entire box office record outside of The Meg. He can't even open a film to 15mil, he's lucky if his films hit a 9mil opening weekend. Even Dwayne Johnson's flop SkyScraper opened better than all of Statham's films sans The Meg. 

I agree, had it starred anyone else, it probably opened just as well, maybe even better.

[Barnack]

1 hour ago, Jonwo said:

I agree, had it starred anyone else, it probably opened just as well, maybe even better.

Imagine Clive Owen in there or Charlie Hunnam in there, I don't know.

 

Statham choice is communicating something to the audience, not so much I love to see a movie if Statham is in it, he work with great material if he say yes it must be good, etc....

 

But if they decided to go with him, it is big non-sense punching the shark in the face I want to see, that a Clive Owen, Jude Law, Hunnam would have possibly not communicated has well.

Edited August 19, 2018 by Barnack