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The Meg
2018 · Film · 113 min
Directed by Jon Turteltaub
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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The opposite it true, as anyone who has seen the documentary "The Meg" will attest.
that's because props >> vfx
props cost much more, so you have to focus on everything else, because you cannot rely on tons of CGI to fill the gaps
jaws is still a terrifying movie about a killer fish, meg is already a joke.
Also shoot whole new scenes for movies just for the Chinese market. I worked in post-production on Iron Man 3 and there are scenes that exist for that movie for China that don't exist in the US release.
Not sure if it's a contractual thing to get the coveted release window there or extra $.
Or look at The Meg, which was a US-Chinese co-production that was like a tourist video for Sanya Bay towards the end of the film.
But Hollywood isn't going to stand down over taking Chinese money. Right now, most of the money is made overseas on the big movies. Much like Germany was a huge overseas market in the 30s.