'The Meg' Opens #1 But Is It a Flop? - Charting with Dan!
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- Опубліковано 23 сер 2024
- Dan Murrell & Roth Cornet review The Meg's opening weekend performance at the box office, is it a flop or a tidal wave? Plus everything else domestic or international with the 2018 box office - it's Charting with Dan!
'The Meg' Opens #1 But Is It a Flop? - Charting with Dan!
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On the final Charting of 2018 you should do the top 5 opening weekend/overall grosses of every studio. That would be extremely interesting!
I am totally here for a grand number crunching end of the year special
And a run down of "Flops due to excessive budgets" i.e. films that legitimately made HUGE returns in ticket sales but had so much money spent on them, so....'it was a flop.'
I'm on board for that
"I didn't have time to make charts for this." It's cool, Dan. We appreciate all the charts you do make. This show always feels so well researched. Great job as always!
It's just not going to be the same without that Meg countdown, you know?
But if The Meg becomes a big hit in China, we might have The Meg countdowns for several years ahead.
Shark Movies are always box-office.. Even Orcas movies...
Dan is so knowledgeable on this subject. It makes me understand and appreciate more of what the studios are looking for and what can be considered a hit or flop. We usually only look domestically, but international is huge and is important.
Very interesting.
Also, I love watching Charting with Dan every week. There is always something interesting happening in Hollywood.
Roth saying words in plural is a Screen Junkies tradition by now. Megalodi, just classic Roth.
She should brush up on her Greek though...
Cmon guys. It was y'all that got everyone hyped up with this film with a countdown. Now it came out, everyone had fun with it. Let's give The Meg its props.
i think its cos they werent too keen on the film itself haha
mk6rfc1 Yeah, that's what I got out of it as well.
I’m just glad Christopher Robin dropped like Pete’s Dragon and will make it’s budget back in America.
The Meg was sold out at my local theater this weekend, and that rarely ever happens here 😱😱😱😱 I was so shocked
Another awesome episode of Charting with Dan! Love and positivity, always.
WE NEED A MEG SEQUEL! We can do this, America!
Joel Delgado Hell yeah!
Joel Delgado with jurassic world ending soon it'll be a great replacement especially if it takes notes from the novels hint hint
I love Charting with Dan, you all do a great job.
Could Finding Nemo be considered a shark movie?
Seth Woodhouse no
Seth Woodhouse well it’s the scariest one ever for sure
The Meg has Roth to thank for building up that anticipation. :) Well done!
IM SO EXCITED IVE BEEN WAITING ALL DAY FOR THISSSS
Woo hoo, go the Meg! Shark Attack!!!
Godzilla vs King Kong vs Meg vs The Jurassic World big guy
How are double feature tickets allocated to a movies gross. Is it 50-50?
If you're talking about a big bad ungry Megalodon, it's only fair that the marketing campaign is aggressive! x'D
Great video!!! Lots of info, thanks Dan!
ALL IN, WB SPENT CLOSE TO 300 MILLION ON THE MEG!?!? ARE YOU KIDDING ME?!?? What morons at WB greenlit that!??? I do not work in movies but I follow box office very closely and would have told them they're crazy to spend that money. You don't spend that kind of $ on a shark movie with B and C level cast. You shouldn't even spend on an A level cast. C'mon WB, you're smarter than this.
Why is this show bashing the Meg? It was a really good movie. I loved it.
Ant-Man and the Wasp isn't going anywhere. It's barely below the current #9, and will easily vault over in the coming week on strong returns off a recent UK release and another $5+mil domestic. After that, it finally gets its China release in a week and a half, which should easily rack up tens of millions more. If it has Chinese numbers as strong as the first Ant-Man, it could crack $600 million. Even if far weaker due to Tom Cruise competition, it still has a solid chance at slipping past Detective Chinatown 2 and Operation Red Sea.
The Meg is swimming in safe waters.
The Meg swam to the top.
The Meg chomped on competition.
The Meg was a MEGa overpreformer.
The Meg scared away Tom Cruise.
Any more puns?
Oh my, you should be hired by a company to write headlines.
mh . .. can u really call them "puns" ? ^^
it sure took a huge bite of that box office money.
It was so good! We enjoyed it so much!!
I only recently discovered this show and have since gone back and watched all of them. I love statistics and evidence based journalism. Yes, even stats can be biased (read the book "How to Lie with Statistics") but it is a much more objective measure than any other movie punditry I have seen. Awesome job, guys!
I’m surprised you didn’t talk about the scandal at the Chinese Box Office.
What happened?
what a MEG-a opening weekend!
So happy to see Mission: Impossible Fallout doing so well! Watched it in IMAX for the second time today and still loved every minute of it!
It's definitely not a flop. Lol
Review BLACKkKLANSMAN please. Would like to know what you both thought.
Also, I only went to see the Meg because of AMC’s app promising 1000 points lol
dynamitejimi Dan reviewed it on Collider’s Movie Review Talk.
Ricardo Rios what is that? Lol
Go and see it. It tackles very serious and relevant issues while blending just the right amount of comedy. Above all else, go and see it for the ending. It’s so powerful.
Adam Taucher seen it twice already lol
Love these videos! Watch them every week. I was especially excited about this one because of how much I loved the Meg. I'm going back with my two young nephews next week. Hopefully its success means sequels (the book sequels are great. Lots of sea monsters fights! The fourth book would be incredible on the big screen!) and an adaptation of the Spin off The loch (which was optioned by the same producer who did the meg!)
I Am Batman!
Batman x F@ck Batman
Batman And you hang around with young boys in tights.
Great breakdown on the budget breakdown for movies. Keep up the great work!
Re: consistency - Has James Wan had any stinkers???
I would love for Dan and Roth to review blackkklans man!
Love Charting with Dan
I am sure someone will do a XXX parody called megaladong lolol
Alpha seems like such a mystery to me honestly. I remember at the beginning of the year seeing the trailer for it in theaters and the tone was super suspenseful and thrilling, like it was going to be a total nail-biter. Last week I went to see the teen titans movie and the re-cut trailer played before it and I was so shocked to see that they changed the tone from a thriller to a "heartwarming" story about a man and his dog lol it's crazy how different that scene where the guy is trapped under the ice plays out when an imagine dragons song plays over it instead of suspenseful music
Thank you for Numbers! Gotta love numbers!
Really interesting info this week guys;) You made it really entertaining.
It scared the Hell out of me. Would've scared the piss out of me, but my bladder was empty.
This episode seemed off without a Meg countdown...sigh...
You guys should continue w/ the indie movies review haul videos, I miss them! Not sure if you guys stopped or what but I haven't seen those videos in a while and I really did enjoy them
I vote that we change the term from "legs" to "fins" when referring to The Meg
I wish it wouldve been crazier. But I had a fun time watching meg. Statham was really good. Unfortunately it didnt make me scared of going in water, which I think every shark movie should be able to do at least a little bit. It didnt go over the top but then it wasn't good scary either.
Its box office opening doesn't really matter. Jaws is the best shark movie by far. The technical difficulties definitely help build the suspense, but it also was anchored by three great actors. It's funny despite all the shark stuff, my favorite scene is probably the one when Quint and Hooper are comparing scars and Quint goes on to tell his USS Indianapolis story.
If you use Dan's logic - Rampage needed to make 700 million to break even, Ant Man 2 needed 850 million, Solo needed 1 billion dollars just to break even, Game Night needed 160 million. Are you suggesting that all these movies massively flopped?? I think.. I think, for once , Dan was wrong. According to other sourced and websites you need to make 2-2.5 times your budget to break even. According to Dan, you need to make 5 times your budget. If that was true, ppl would stop making films.
I think what Dan was saying in a roundabout way was that The Meg is a unique case compared to the other films you mentioned because the studio spent money on the China deal. Essentially investing in the hopes of making a bigger profit down the road. He has stated before that the normal case is that 2-2.5x the budget is needed
Ant-Man and the Wasp is also releasing in China this month, it'll stay in the top 10 worldwide for the year.
That “all time” ranking means nothing without adjusting for inflation
B+ Cinema Score for the Meg is a tad higher than I'd give it. I'd probably say a solid B.
Why is Summer movie chart US only and not International?
Leon Halic here is the international chart
1. Infinity War - $2,045 billion
2. JW: Fallen Kingdom - $1,277 billion
3. Incredibles 2 - $1,088 billion
4. Deadpool 2 - $733 million
5. Ant-Man & The Wasp - $449 million
6. M:I - Fallout - $437 million
7. Solo - $391 million
8. Hotel Transylvania 3 - $379 million
9. Skyscraper - $281 million
10. Ocean's Eight - $280 million
BlueNuggetBoy Productions thanks, its interesting to compare to US
How does merchandising work with adaptations like Ready Player One and The Meg? I would think that the rites have to be shared if the studio is not the original publisher
I really liked the movie.
Do Dan and Roth not realize Ant-Man and the Wasp hasn’t come out in China yet? If it falls off the worldwide chart it will be back
Heck, it only came out in the UK one and a half weeks ago, and we only have the numbers up to 8/5 for the UK thus far. Ant-Man and the Wasp easily has another $50 million to add, and could quite possibly pull in another $50 million or two beyond that before it's done.
Santa Christ You got me. I try to stay on top of this stuff as best I can, but sometimes it slips through the cracks. I’ll address on next week’s episode! - Dan
ScreenJunkies News Hey Dan, love these segments!
Meg! Meg! Meg! Meg!
150 million dollars in marketing and this is the first time I've heard of this movie??? That's crazy! I never even saw a trailer. That's just crazy, 150 million for marketing, what a joke!
you didnt miss anything, the trailer looked like shit, and to no1s surprise it was shit, i wouldnt even watch it on cable
How can you forget Sharknado????? Americans love Sharks!!!!
The movie has reached over 50 milion at the domestic box office. It will reach 100 milion. If Rampage can get to 100 then The Meg can reach those numbers to.
I'd say another 'consistent' director would be Christopher Nolan. Or maybe Quentin Tarantino, although I haven't seen the Hateful Eight.
Best Box Office show along with Grace Randolph :). I wish you guys would invite her at some point for one of your formats
Where does Mission Impossible go from here? Another sequel. I suspect there will be an arms dealer in t.
Not directors, but movie people who are literally *always* good or better:
- John Williams (when we lose John, movies are just going to be worse)
- Roger Deakins
For directors, Dennis Villeneuve is, as you mention, on a serious hot streak (BR2049 and Sicario two my all-time favourite movies, true modern classics), but his track record doesn't stretch all that far. I would also say Tarantino hasn't made a bad film yet. He's got a couple of "meh" ones, but nothing worse than that? Edgar Wright also hasn't made a film that's less than good that I can think of. He's had commercial failures, but I've liked every one of his movies so far.
Definitely agree on Edgar Wright, but if they are demanding "bankably profitable" in their unspoken criteria, then Scott Pilgrim vs. The World wasn't profitable: Same with Tarantino, as you mention.
In older directors, Kubrick is one I always love (again, though, some weren't money-makers).
In terms of keeping a high average quality, and limiting to directors I've seen at least 5 films from, I'd submit Brad Bird and James Cameron for your consideration.
For composers, same parameters, I'd absolutely agree with John Williams, but also suggest Randy Newman, Michael Giacchino and Alan Menken. Each of them has at least 1 flop (critically and/or commercially), but then so does Williams.
I would personally argue that Tarantino's made a couple outright bad films, but some of that's personal taste and I can acknowledge technical skill in their production.
Nolan
Dan you forgot that Antman and the wasp hasn’t opened in China yet. The first did 105M in China...so I think it should be safe on the world top ten.
Wait a second!! Ready Player One needed to make about 900 million dollars internationally just to break even? That sounds insane for a non-franchise film. No non-franchise pg13 film in the past 8 years has crossed the 900 million dollar mark... Infact RP1 is the highest grossing non-franchise pg13 film in 3 years...
Hackman I guess they were counting on the book, the fact that it contains all the franchises and ofc Spielberg who is a franchise himself.
Hackman I guess they were counting on the book, the fact that it contains all the franchises and ofc Spielberg who is a franchise himself.
NO. If you use Dan's logic - Rampage needed to make 700 million to break even, Ant Man 2 needed 850 million, Solo needed 1 billion dollars just to break even, Game Night needed 160 million. Are you suggesting that all these movies massively flopped?? I think.. I think, for once , Dan was wrong. According to other sourced and websites you need to make 2-2.5 times your budget to break even. According to Dan, you need to make 5 times your budget. If that was true, ppl would stop making films.
Hackman When it comes to how much a movie needs to make. UA-cam personalities are just guessing. Without knowing the cost of marketing. How much the movie was paid for product placement. Nobody will know how much they break even amount is
Yeah I've always used the 2.5x bench mark for break even but who knows.
Hey guys you are awesome love your show😊😎
I thought it was a pretty good movie. There were a couple things I thought were stupid, but overall it was good in my opinion
Along with Denis Villeneuve, Christopher Nolan is another director who has never done anything that was straight up bad.
The Meg was...dumb. Rainn Wilson was playing a billionaire version of Dwight Schrute in the movie. Jason was, well, Jason. Then there were ethnically diverse secondary comic relief characters who weren't doing a very good job. Tons of jump scares, that's it. This movie was a total bomb.
I saw BlackkKlansman this past weekend, it was excellent, one of the best movies of the year. Definitely recommend seeing it.
The MCU (Meg Cinematic Universe) is something we need desperately as a species. It's just something so ridiculous, it needs to be a thing
Fede Krauch The Meg vs Godzilla vs King Kong
I think Dan's forgetting 'Ant-Man and the Wasp' still hasn't come out in China yet, either. The first 'Ant-Man' did really well there, eventually grossing over $100m. The sequel wasn't even announced until after it's particularly strong Chinese opening weekend. If 'AM&TW' performs anywhere close to how the first one did, it will definitely jump over 'Dying to Survive' and probably 'Detective Chinatown 2' as well.
Regarding the consistent prolific director’s comment Denis Villeneuve has made Nine films with the last five years seeing him release one a year.
Ant Man may pick up some legs since Infinity War is coming out on blu ray this week
i still don't understand why did they got rid of 'ready player one' out of Indian market
I saw it!!! WB and the Indian cinemas had a bit of a fight abt when RP1 was supposed to release. It did release 10 days later on a Tuesday in 500 theatres and stayed in theatres for about 2 weeks. It is doing extremely well in India with DVD sales.
I think The Meg is gonna be a nice little hit for Warner Bros.
Peter Griffin : Shut up Meg
"A happy Tom Cruise"
More like a happy David Miscavige
In all honesty I wouldn't have known The Meg existed if it wasn't for Roth. The marketing for this film is interesting. Is this one of those LA/NY movie bubble situations?
TVB is a Hong Kong company, not China
No Meg countdown and school has started, summer really is over.
"Shut up, Meg."
Great Show Today
I tried reading the first Meg novel--just to help get excited about the movie--and it's so bad that I couldn't get through it. I had to stop after like 50 pages or something.
Ant-Man and the Wasp havent open in China too, last time I check was due to open in august 24...
I hate to be that guy, but Tarantino always delivers
ROTH, I really like your style, so cool.
Just saw the china market for old mcu films and its really low. Like many have just 10 million gross. Which made me think, when did china start becoming a top market for movies?
people actually love Sharktale? That was one of the worst movies i have ever seen. I wish i had gotten the time in my life back i had spent watching it, and i got to see it for free when i was working for Hollywood Video at the time.
TheRealSpiderMew I'm pretty certain he was being sarcastic.
thumbs up for meg legs
shark movies are so yesterday!
The Meg was good. I think Jurassic World should do a Mosasaurus solo movie. Then if it's successful, boom. The Meg vs Mosasaurus movie. Fingers crossed Universal Studios.
Watched the meg... kinda felt like it need some more crazy over the top scenes. Maybe it's its me
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MEGLEGS
pacific rim vs meg
Did anyone else notice that The Meg was the only movie available this weekend on Movie Pass? I wanted to see it anyway, but I also want to see others. I'm leaving Movie Pass, but maybe this helped The Meg's numbers?
Alesia V The Meg only popped up for me on Sunday, the big push from Moviepass this week was Slender Man. Of the two movies they were allowing people to see, every day featured Slender Man.
Did you go see it?
I wanted to check that out too, but it's not playing anywhere near me.
Alesia V Slender Man was very bland and forgettable, only saw it because it was the only option avaliable the day I went to the theater and it wasn't on my dime. Wanted to see Meg but my moviepass bud is a monthly member (im annual) and was gonna have to pay an $8 surge so decided to skip it for now.
it wont be the last week ant man and the wasp on the worldwide chart as both fallout and antman & the wasp have yet to hit China, so both of them will get a boost while dying to survive will drop out of the 10
What uuuuuuuup
I watched the meg and it was horrible I watched it online no way in hell I pay to see that that.
Be curious what the long term rollout plan is for BlacKKKlansman. Even if it keeps the same number of theaters next weekend, I think the drop won't be by much.
It feels like if a movie is going to expand it usually starts out in the hundreds of theaters at most and then expands from there. Is it usual for a movie that opened in 1500 theaters to expand dramatically?
I didnt watch screen junkies for half a year or maybe more . What happened to Dan ? He used to be a baby face now looks like he replaced speed for serial . Take a long vacation Dan , SJ is not worth your life !