The meg 2018

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Previously thought to be extinct, a massive creature attacks a deep-sea submersible, leaving it disabled and trapping the crew at the bottom of the Pacific. With time running out, a visionary oceanographer recruits rescue diver Jonas Taylor to save the crew and the sea itself from an unimaginable threat -- a 75-foot-long prehistoric shark known as the Megalodon.

Initial release: August 8, 2018 (Philippines)

Director: Jon Turteltaub

Box office: 530.2 million USD

Budget: $130–178 million

Producers: Lorenzo di Bonaventura, Belle Avery, Colin Wilson, Barrie M. Osborne

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The Meg is a 2018 science fiction actionthriller film^[5][1] directed by Jon Turteltaub with a screenplay by Dean Georgaris, Jon Hoeber, and Erich Hoeber, loosely based on the 1997 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. The film follows a group of scientists who encounter a 75-foot-long (23 m) megalodon shark while on a rescue mission at the floor of the Pacific Ocean.

The Meg
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Directed by	Jon Turteltaub
Produced by	Lorenzo di Bonaventura Colin Wilson Belle Avery
Screenplay by	Dean Georgaris Jon Hoeber Erich Hoeber
Based on	Meg: A Novel of Deep Terror by Steve Alten
Starring	Jason Statham Li Bingbing Rainn Wilson Ruby Rose Winston Chao Cliff Curtis
Music by	Harry Gregson-Williams
Cinematography	Tom Stern
Edited by	Steven Kemper
Production company	Gravity Pictures Flagship Entertainment Apelles Entertainment Di Bonaventura Pictures Maeday Productions
Distributed by	Warner Bros. Pictures
Release date	August 10, 2018(United States and China)
Running time	113 minutes[1]
Country	China United States
Language	English
Budget	$130–178 million[2][3]
Box office	$530.2 million[4]

Walt Disney Studios originally purchased the film rights to the book in the 1990s, but after several years in development hell, the rights landed at Warner Bros.The movie was eventually greenlit in 2015. Turteltaub and much of the cast joined by September 2016, and filming began the following month in New Zealand and ended in Sanya, China, in January 2017.

A Chinese-American co-production, The Meg was released in both countries on August 10, 2018, in RealD 3D. It grossed over $530 million worldwide and received mixed reviews from critics, with some describing it as an entertaining B-movie and others calling it "neither good enough nor bad enough" to be fun.