In no coincidence whatsoever, hours before Warner Bros.
began screening “The Meg” nationwide, Entertainment Studios dropped the teaser trailer Thursday for its own shark film.
“47 Meters Down: The Next Chapter” is the sequel to “47 Meters Down,” last year’s second-highest grossing indie ($44 million domestic).
The follow-up, once again helmed by Brit Johannes Roberts, was greenlit in October, with the working title “48 Meters Down.”“47 Meters Down” starred Mandy Moore and was released three months before the premiere of her hit NBC series “This Is Us.” She and Claire Holt (“The Vampire Diaries”) played sisters vacationing in Mexico who encounter multiple sharks while scuba diving; only the former survived.
“We’d never really seen a shark movie do poorly, so I felt good about it,” Entertainment Studios founder, owner, chairman, and CEO Byron Allen told IndieWire in 2017, when asked about the film that put him in the distribution business.
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