‘Meg 2: The Trench’ – How the New Shark Attack Movie Adapts Steve Alten’s First Two Novels

The following article contains major spoilers for the novels Meg: A Novel of Deep Terror and The Trench, as well as the feature films The Meg and Meg 2: The Trench.  One year before Steven Spielberg made us all afraid to go into the water, Peter Benchley’s 1974 novel Jaws took the literary world by storm. […]

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‘The Meg’ vs. ‘Meg 2: The Trench’ – Which Film Has the Strongest Bite?

The following contains major spoilers for The Meg and Meg 2: The Trench. Sharksploitation movies live and die based on the strength of their bite. In order to make us afraid to go in the water, genre filmmakers usually deploy a barrage of visual and practical effects to bring to life the ocean’s most feared […]

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‘Meg 2: The Trench’ – 16 Official Images from the Big Screen Sequel Open Wide for #SharkWeek

The big screen is set to be attacked by a giant shark once more in the upcoming Meg 2: The Trench, a sequel to the international hit from 2018 that gobbled up $530 million. In celebration of #SharkWeek, Warner Bros. has opened up the full official image gallery for Meg 2: The Trench, previewing the […]

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Five Sharksploitation Horror Movies to Stream This Week

The 35th edition of Discovery Channel’s Shark Week is officially underway, marking the return of the annual fan-favorite weeklong shark celebration. Shark Week began in 1988 as a fun means of educating audiences on the aquatic predator, counteracting the negative representations of sharks in popular culture that began with the seminal aquatic horror feature Jaws (now available […]

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‘Meg 2: The Trench’ Trailer – 3 Minutes of Bonkers Action With 3 Megs, 1 T-Rex and Various Sea Monsters!

Shark attack sequel Meg 2: The Trench will be swimming into theaters on August 4, 2023, and the mega-sized official trailer has taken a big bite out of the internet tonight. Get ready for the ultimate adrenaline rush this summer in Meg 2: The Trench, a literally larger-than-life thrill ride that supersizes the 2018 blockbuster and takes the […]

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‘Meg 2: The Trench’ – Warner Bros. Shared Wild First Footage During CinemaCon Today

Warner Bros. debuted a first look at the upcoming shark attack sequel Meg 2: The Trench during CinemaCon today, and attendees seem to be pretty impressed with the footage. Journalist Jeff Sneider tweets, “WB should just rename THE MEG 2 to THE HIT, because that’s what it’s gonna be. She’s hungry and back for seconds! […]

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‘Meg 2: The Trench’ Will Swim into Theaters Summer 2023

A whole host of brand new release dates have been provided by Warner Bros. today, one of them letting us know when shark attack sequel Meg 2: The Trench is coming. Filming is already underway, and Meg 2: The Trench now has an August 4, 2023 release date. That could always change going forward, of […]

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Li Bingbing Will Not Return for ‘Meg 2: The Trench’

Filming is underway on big budget shark attack sequel Meg 2: The Trench, and while many stars from the first film will be back, we’ve learned this week that Li Bingbing will not. Variety reports that The Meg star Li Bingbing, who was originally set to return for the sequel (last we heard, at least), […]

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‘The Meg’ Sequel Begins Shooting Under the Title ‘Meg 2: The Trench’

Jason Statham will be back as Jonas Taylor in director Ben Wheatley‘s (Kill List, Sightseers, A Field in England, High-Rise, Rebecca, In the Earth) upcoming sequel to big-budget shark attack horror movie The Meg, and we’ve learned today that the official shooting title is Meg 2: The Trench. Variety confirmed production is officially underway at the Warner Bros.-owned Leavesden Studios outside London, […]

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Ben Wheatley’s ‘The Meg’ Sequel Begins Filming in the UK This Month

Jason Statham will be back as Jonas Taylor in director Ben Wheatley‘s (Kill List, Sightseers, A Field in England, High-Rise, Rebecca, In the Earth) upcoming sequel to big-budget shark attack horror movie The Meg, and we’ve learned that filming is now getting set to begin! KFTV reports that The Meg 2 will begin filming in the United Kingdom the week of January […]

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