
‘The Meg’ Opening Box Office is On Track to Sink, Not Swim, With $20 Million Debut
Posted on Wednesday, August 8th, 2018 by Hoai-Tran Bui
We’re going to need a bigger box office estimate. Jon Turteltaub‘s big-budget sci-fi horror movie that can essentially be boiled down to “Jason Statham versus a giant shark” has some giant problems of its own: lukewarm box office tracking numbers.
The Meg is tracking to open to roughly $20 million domestically — which barely takes a bite out of the film’s $130 million mega-budget.