news culture 30 million in one weekend, this horror film decimates the box office
Horror cinema is working hard at the moment. After the worldwide success of the last Scream, another film triumphs in the box office.
If we are only talking about Avatar 2 and its 45 million receipts at the moment, there is still another newcomer from the dark rooms who manages to bring people together: M3GAN, small second in the US box office with everything likewise, more than 30 million dollars in revenue and an average revenue/theater of 8,600 dollars. This is already enough to make this production profitable with a fairly modest budget of 12 million dollars. And if it is far from ahead of the sensation of James Cameron, the feature film seems to seduce crowds internationally; M3GAN has earned excellent reviews, including a 98% score on Rotten Tomatoes.
Already a sequel in the boxes?
American production at the crossroads between Chucky and Annabelle, M3GAN is part of the register of killer dolls by mixing horror and science fiction. The story is that of a talented roboticist from a toy company, Gemma, proud of her creation still under development: a magnificent doll equipped with artificial intelligence, called M3GAN. Able to speak and adapt to a slew of situations, the latter is designed to be the ideal friend of children. Gemma then has the brilliant idea of linking her beloved prototype to Cady, her newly orphaned niece. A decision whose consequences will be terrible.
In the cast, we find Allison Williams in the role of Gemma, an actress you met in another horror film, Get Out. The role of Cady is played by the young Violet McGraw, already seen in Stephen King’s Doctor Sleep or more recently in A Christmas Mystery. Directed by Gerard Johnstone (Housebound) scripted by Akela Cooper (Malignant) could have been much more gore than expected according to Cooper’s statements in an interview given to the Los Angeles Times.
LA Times Reporter: Speaking of violent horror scenes, the theatrically released version of “M3GAN” is PG-13. How gory was your script originally?
Akela Cooper: Not to criticize Universal, I love them, and I understand that once the trailer went viral, teenagers got into it and you wanted them to see the movie . There should be an unrated version at some point…I heard it was in the works. But yes, it was much more gory. His kill count in the script was higher than in the movie. It wasn’t a Gabriel-scale massacre in “Malignant,” but it killed a bunch of people, including a few characters that James said to me, “I like what you did with those characters, but I want them to live”. I was merciless, but again, it’s me. My humor is extremely dark.
Finally, the result is satisfactory enough to ensure a sequel according to information from Deadline.
- All about M3GAN on Allocine.
