Warner Bros./China Gravity’s co-production The Meg is swimming in with an opening between $44M-$45M at 4,118 theaters — the second widest August release after Suicide Squad (4,255 locations).This is to be commended.
Tracking, the industry nor Warner Bros.
ever thought that another shark movie had the potential to open at this level which one studio insider heralded as “the largest live action shark movie opening ever at the box office”.Meg held fantastically well on Saturday with $16.3M, -1% from Friday’s $16.5M, which remember includes $4M of Thursday previews.
Technically, Saturday is really +30% over Friday which means that Meg wasn’t frontloaded like a genre movie.
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