The Meg

The Meg

Theatrical - Wide 2018-08-09

Cast Jason Statham Rainn Wilson Cliff Curtis Ruby Rose Masi Oka
Directed by Jon Turteltaub
Directed by Erich Hoeber Jon Hoeber Dean Georgaris

Box Office Gross: $530,517,320

Running Time: 113 minutes

Language: English

Production Company: Apelles Entertainment, Gravity Pictures, di Bonaventura Pictures, Flagship Entertainment Group, Maeday Productions, Warner Bros. Pictures

Genres: Action Horror

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5/10

Synopsis

A deep sea submersible pilot revisits his past fears in the Mariana Trench, and accidentally unleashes the seventy foot ancestor of the Great White Shark believed to be extinct.

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