China Synopsis
“Pleased to eat you”
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.
Audience Engagement
7,018 audience reviews — more than 99% of China films in our index.
Popularity sits at the 99th percentile among China films.
Titles With Overlapping Themes
Films and series that share thematic tags with The Meg. Number on each card indicates how many keywords overlap.
Action + Science Fiction in China
23 China titles in our catalog blend the Action and Science Fiction genres. Below: the top-rated of them (excluding The Meg itself).
The 2017–2019 China Window
The Meg holds position #165 of 248 China films in the 2017–2019 window, below highlighted by audience rating.
The 2010s China Landscape
Catalog density by release year across the 2010s in China, 515 titles in total. Highlighted year (yellow) is when The Meg premiered alongside 76 others.
Budget & Box Office Efficiency
At a 1h 53m runtime, production spent $1.3M per minute on screen and earned $4.7M per minute back.
Position in Catalog
Released alongside 76 other China films in 2018.
The 607th China title from China we index (earliest catalogued entry: 1935).
Our China catalog contains 946 titles in total (747 films).
Thematic Fingerprint
Tags on The Meg, grouped by how common each theme is across the full Asian catalog. Rare tags are more distinctive signals.
- underwater · 4
- shark · 3
- deep sea · 1
- oceanic expedition · 1
- submersible · 1
- extinct · 1
- underwater facility · 1
- mariana trench · 1
- beach · 19
- creature · 14
- ocean · 6
- based on novel or book · 288
- kaiju · 77
Reception Benchmarks
Ranked #609 of 946 China films indexed here (36th percentile by TMDB audience score).
Rating is -0.4 points below the China average of 6.7/10.
Among China Action productions specifically: #187 of 319 (top 59%).
Production Details
| Primary Country | China |
|---|---|
| All Production Countries | China, United States of America |
| Original Language | En |
| Spoken Languages | Mandarin, English, Japanese, Thai |
| Production Companies | Apelles Entertainment, Gravity Pictures, di Bonaventura Pictures, Flagship Entertainment Group, Maeday Productions |
| Runtime | 1h 53m |
| Release Date | August 9, 2018 |
| IMDb | tt4779682 |
| Official Site | www.warnerbros.com |