M3GAN’s rollercoaster trailer instantly set it up as an immediate cult classic,she's miss november sex video 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 millionin 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, M3GANkicks 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.
You May Also Like
SEE ALSO: 'M3GAN' review: 2023's first must-see movie has arrived
Giving us a new, incredibly queer-coded Chucky, M3GANis a perfect merge of camp and horror, with the film already boasting memorable one-linersand 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 M3GANsequel 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 M3GANhere, 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.”
Related Stories
- 'Smile' review: Does one superbly scary scene make it worth watching?
- I slid into M3GAN's DMs. Here's what happened.
- M3GAN the murder doll weighs in on Elon Musk, Taylor Swift, Chucky and more
- Aubrey Plaza has had it with people asking if she plays Chucky in 'Child's Play'
- 'Malignant' is a campy yet creepy cult classic in the making
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.
Topics Film