'M3GAN' surprisingly dominates at the box office | Mashable.
'M3GAN' surprisingly dominates at the box office with $30M+ opening
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M3GAN’s rollercoaster trailer instantly set it up as an immediate cult classic, and its opening weekend has the numbers to prove it.
While the film had a production budget of $12 million, it managed to gross over $30 million in its opening, domestic weekend. The biggest opening for the first weekend of January since 2018. And the biggest opening for an original horror movie since Jordan Peele’s Nope (amongst other records). All thanks to its murderous little menace that’s managed to grip the hearts of millions.
Following the story of a young girl named Cady (Violet McGraw) who’s recently lost her parents, M3GAN kicks off with Cady moving into her aunt Gemma’s (Allison Williams) home. Gemma is a hard-working roboticist who’s been building an AI, lifelike doll capable of being any child’s best friend and protective companion. When she decides to gift Cady her own M3GAN doll, things are sunshine and rainbows for a brief second before M3GAN starts wreaking absolute havoc on everyone around her.
Giving us a new, incredibly queer-coded Chucky, M3GAN is a perfect merge of camp and horror, with the film already boasting memorable one-liners and dance numbers to match. Its widespread success, and almost perfect critic score on Rotten Tomatoes, ride the bandwagon of 2022’s great roster of horror and sets 2023 up as a year to celebrate even more absurdly chaotic cinema. And there might be a sequel.
With James Wan (The Conjuring, Insidious) behind its production, it seems that the prolific filmmaker has landed on another franchise goldmine as reports suggest a M3GAN sequel is already in the works — although nothing is officially confirmed. In an interview with Collider, Wan shared that “In any of my movies, whether it’s The Conjuring Universe, or Saw, or Malignant, or M3GAN here, we like to think of a bigger world… So if we’re fortunate enough to have sequels, then we have an idea of where we want to go.”
A sequel could potentially explain M3GAN’s shocking ending, and I’m personally ready to see more of her choreography. So here’s to hoping that the film’s monstrous box office success lands us even more of M3GAN — our new queer icon that’s officially taken the Babadook’s crown.
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There’s nothing original about this film. We literally had the Bride of Chucky already. They had a good marketing strategy/campaign that went viral. I’ll wait for it to stream.
ReplyDeleteI guess I’m weird but I just don’t like scary movies.
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ReplyDeleteIt tells us people are tired of remakes. We want something fresh. Even if it is more or less just the female version of Chucky
ReplyDeleteCurios about how they arrived at the name of something that starts out benign then turns a bit evil
ReplyDelete$30.2 mil dominates? Or by other articles slays it? Those numbers dont even make the top 400.
ReplyDeleteah, you clueless, clueless person. If you don't know what you are talking about, just sit down. 🙂
Deletenever met a person who was honestly smart that had to belittle or had to prove their intelligence to make a point to another, only conceited people do that.
Deleteit's been out for one weekend and it's #203 all time domestic gross for horror films. That doesn't seem too bad.
Deleteill take that into consideration, however, thank you for your concern in the matter, but I can assure you it isn’t necessary.
DeleteOnly if you don't adjust for inflation.
Deletein a sense yeah if you put it into a category the playing field gets smaller and it can inch up, to be fair its only opening weekend but with the decades of watching horror its more gore than horror nowadays so idk where its going to go after this weekend
DeleteGrandkids saw it last evening. They said it was boring.
ReplyDeleteSoon, Barbies will be scary too! 😱
ReplyDeleteMy granddaughter has a doll that she got for Christmas that looks very similar to this doll.
ReplyDeleteFurby goes bananas
ReplyDeleteLooks ridiculous
ReplyDeleteIt's more like a comedy.
ReplyDeletehttps://giphy.com/gifs/m3gan-megan-m3gan-movie-meet-vpfQQ3dQqPRUaKBeu5
ReplyDeleteStreaming Addicts is not surprising by Megan's success!
ReplyDeleteWait a doll that comes to life?
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Not sure you can call this movie a horror film though :’)
ReplyDeleteIt's hard to say, but I'm sure it'll be filled with plenty of screaming and surprises along the way!
ReplyDeleteNo more dolls!!
ReplyDeleteMovies are losing touch, made with no inspiration or good writing, just blood and gore or shooting and explosions
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