Monday Am Update, writethru: The Meg figures updated. Warner Bros/Gravity Pictures’ prehistoric shark took a whale of a bite out of the box office in its opening this session as it surprised both at home and abroad. As of this morning, Meg counts $101.5M across 42 offshore markets, The Meg gobbled up a global launch of $146.8M.
Out of the total international box office debut, China turnstiles gave the co-production $50.7M. That’s a good start in a competitive landscape with the Sunday estimate ($17.5M/Rmb 120M) increasing on the Friday and Saturday. This may bode well for the midweeks — it helps that iPartment, a local picture above it that had more weekend screens, is dropping fast in a flurry of confusion (see below). But there is competition ahead as major Hollywood movies return to Chinese waters over the next several Fridays. Still, The Meg‘s got an 8.8 on Maoyan...
Out of the total international box office debut, China turnstiles gave the co-production $50.7M. That’s a good start in a competitive landscape with the Sunday estimate ($17.5M/Rmb 120M) increasing on the Friday and Saturday. This may bode well for the midweeks — it helps that iPartment, a local picture above it that had more weekend screens, is dropping fast in a flurry of confusion (see below). But there is competition ahead as major Hollywood movies return to Chinese waters over the next several Fridays. Still, The Meg‘s got an 8.8 on Maoyan...
- 8/13/2018
- by Nancy Tartaglione
- Deadline Film + TV
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