Back in 2018, Warner Bros.
scored a massive, somewhat unexpected success with “The Meg.” The adaptation of Steve Alten’s book of the same name, in which Jason Statham takes on a thought-to-be-extinct megalodon, proved to be a big winner with audiences, raking in $530 million at the global box office.
Now, five years and a full global pandemic later, Statham is back in the sequel, “Meg 2: The Trench,” which once again hopes to become a late summer sleeper hit.
This time, though, it appears competition is going to be a bigger issue.Box Office Pro currently estimates director Ben Wheatley’s big shark sequel could make anywhere between $22 and $27 million domestically on its opening weekend.
That’s not exactly what a studio wants to see with a big blockbuster, to say the least.
While the budget has yet to be revealed, the original cost $130 million before marketing.
One imagines that “The Trench” isn’t any cheaper,…
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