Author: Jamie Lovett / Source: Horror
The Meg will swim into the number one position at the box office in its opening weekend.
The Meg was projected to earn $20-22 million at the box office in its opening weekend, but will actually earn double that with $40 million from 4,118 locations. The film earned $16.
5 million Friday alone.The Meg stars Jason Statham in an underwater shark horror plot based on the 1997 book Meg: A Novel of Deep Terror by Steve Alten. The film has been in development for years but has not impressed critics, earning just a 50 percent on review aggregator Rotten Tomatoes. The film also stars Li Bingbing, Rainn Wilson, Ruby Rose, Winston Chao, and Cliff Curtis.
Mission: Impossible – Fallout drops down to second place after two weeks on top of the box office. The film will earn about $19 million from 3,888 locations in its third weekend. The film has earned $147 million domestic so far and $224 million overseas.
Christopher Robin, Disney’s live-action Winnie the Pooh film, will earn about $12 million from 3,602 locations for a third-place finish in its second weekend.
Sony’s horror movie Slender Man, based on the creepy internet meme character, will open in fourth place $11.8 million after earning $4.85 million on Friday from 2,358 locations.
Spike Lee’s BlacKkKlansman will open in fifth place with about $9.4 million from 1,512 locations. The film has seen strong critical reviews and has earned a 97 percent fresh rating from Rotten Tomatoes.
Hotel Transylvania 3: Summer Vacation will move into ninth place in its fifth weekend, earning $4.8 million and bringing its domestic box office total to $146.5 million.
In its sixth weekend at the box office, Marvel Studio’s latest film Ant-Man and the Wasp will round out the top 10. The film will earn another $3.9 million, bringing its domestic box office total to $203.3 million. The sequel has already surpassed the lifetime box office total of the original Ant-Man.
Keep reading to see how this weekend’s top 10 stacks up.
Opening Weekend
Friday: $16.5 million
Weekend: $40 million
A massive creature attacks a deep-sea submersible, leaving it disabled and trapping the crew at the bottom of the Pacific Ocean. With time running out, rescue diver Jonas Taylor must save the crew and the ocean itself from an unimaginable threat — a 75-foot-long prehistoric shark known as the Megalodon.
The Meg is directed by Jon Turteltaub from a screenplay by Dean Georgaris, Jon Hoeber, and Erich Hoeber, based on the book Meg: A Novel of Deep Terror by Steve Alten. The film stars Jason Statham, Li Bingbing, Rainn Wilson, Ruby Rose, Winston Chao, and Cliff Curtis.
Week Three
Friday: $5.3 million
Weekend: $18.9 million
Total: $160.8 million
Ethan Hunt and the IMF team join forces with CIA assassin August Walker to prevent a disaster of epic proportions. Arms dealer John Lark and a group of terrorists known as the Apostles plan to use three plutonium cores for a simultaneous nuclear attack on the Vatican, Jerusalem and Mecca, Saudi Arabia. When the weapons go missing, Ethan and his crew find themselves in a desperate race against time to prevent them from falling into the wrong hands.
Mission: Impossible – Fallout stars Tom Cruise, Ving Rhames, Simon Pegg, Rebecca Ferguson, Sean Harris, Michelle Monaghan, Alec Baldwin, Henry Cavill, Angela Bassett and Vanessa Kirby.
Week Three
Friday: $3.6 million
Weekend: $12.3 million
Total: $49.9
Christopher Robin — now a family man living in London — receives a surprise visit from his old childhood pal, Winnie-the-Pooh. With Christopher’s help, Pooh embarks on a…
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