Tag: The Meg
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‘Crazy Rich Asians’ to Top Labor Day Box Office With $30 Million
“Crazy Rich Asians” is doing crazy well.The Constance Wu-starrer is likely to threepeat as the box office topper over the Labor Day weekend, with $30 million for the four-day period. It’s projected to bring in $23 million Friday through Sunday.The Warner Bros. rom-com will join “Jumanji: Welcome to the Jungle,” “Black Panther,” and “Avengers: Infinity…
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‘Ant-Man and the Wasp’ Leads Global Box Office With $68 Million in China
Warner Bros. might be ruling the domestic box office, but Disney remains a force overseas.Disney and Marvel’s “Ant-Man and the Wasp” returned to dominate the worldwide box office. The superhero tentpole generated $68 million when it opened in China, marking the fourth highest debut for a Marvel film in the Middle Kingdom. That brings its…
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Look for ‘Crazy Rich Asians’ to Top ‘Happytime Murders’ for a Second Weekend at #1
August 2018 has proven to be much better than last year, but is still delivering just the twelfth largest grosses for the month to date since 2000. This, despite the fact every weekend this month has significantly outperformed the same weekend last year thanks to performances that include Warner Bros.’s The Meg and Crazy Rich…
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‘The Meg’ Remains No. 1 at International Box Office, Tops $300 Million Worldwide
“The Meg” swam past the competition at the international box office for the second week in a row.Warner Bros.’ shark thriller generated $67 million in 55 territories abroad this weekend for an overseas tally of $230.4 million. It picked up another $21.5 million in North America, bringing its global tally over $314 million.“The Meg,” which…
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‘Crazy Rich Asians’ Delivers $34M Five-Day Opening; ‘Mile 22’ & ‘Alpha’ Fall Short
August may be a notoriously slow month at the box office, but Warner Bros. has now delivered back-to-back strong performers. Last weekend The Meg topped all expectations and continued its strong global performance this weekend, while the new release of Crazy Rich Asians delivered an estimated $34 million in its first five days of release.…
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Why Did ‘The Meg’ Cut the Two Best (and Craziest) Scenes From the Book?
It seems almost unthinkable that The Meg is based on a book. After slews upon slews of terrible mutant-shark movies from the likes of SyFy and The Asylum, the notion of such a film being adapted from a written text – with a high budget! – is quite something. But Meg: A Novel Of Deep…
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The Meg jumps the shark: an action film that delivers a message
Sure, Jason Statham gets to battle a man-eating monster – but his movie also packs warnings about ecological destructionWhen the trailer for Jon Turteltaub’s The Meg first dropped, it was met with excitement from those wanting a blockbuster B-movie with Jason Statham punching sharks in the face. Now that The Meg is out, we can…
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‘Alpha,’ ‘The Meg’ Top Studios’ TV Ad Spending
In this week’s edition of the Variety Movie Commercial Tracker, powered by the TV advertising attention analytics company iSpot.tv, Columbia Pictures claims the top spot in spending with “Alpha.”Ads placed for the drama had an estimated media value of $5.08 million through Sunday for 1,589 national ad airings on 45 networks. (Spend figures are based…
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‘The Meg’ Devours Competition, Debuting with a Monster $146.9M Globally
It was a monstrous weekend thanks to Warner Bros.’s The Meg, which devoured everything in its path en route to a nearly $150 million global debut. As a result, the weekend box office was up 5.7% compared to last weekend and over 25% compared to last year, with the top twelve grossing over $132 million.…