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M3GAN Overperforms for Her Box Office Opening Weekend
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Ever since Blumhouse and Universal released the first trailer for M3GAN this past October, all eyes have been on the android doll. Universal’s spent weeks making sure that people know about the killer toy movie from Malignant writer Akela Cooper, acclaimed horror architect James Wan, and Housebound director Gerard…
‘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.
Fire Emblem Engage’s opening cinematic gives us a flashy look at our toothpaste coloured protagonist
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Fire Emblem Engage is set to launch in just a couple of weeks now, and its opening cinematic is available to check out now.
Announced just a few months ago, Fire Emblem Engage is out January 20, with a number of outlets getting their hands on it for the first time. Dutch Nintendo-focused YouTube channel N1-UP recently took a look at the game, and even uploaded the full opening cinematic that will greet you once you boot up the game (thanks, GamesRadar). So if you aren’t interested in what appears to be quiet light spoilers, I’d steer clear of this one.
The cinematic is appropriately anime, as in it teases some of the events in the main game, as well as showing the main cast in a number of dramatic combat encounters, all set to a slightly underwhelming theme song (the lyrics of which are just a bit too on the nose). Also shown off in the video is the quite sombre title screen, so overall there’s a good mix of over-the-topness and subtlety, the perfect combination for any Fire Emblem.
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30 Years On, Deep Space Nine’s Opening Is Incredible Star Trek
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When looking back at Deep Space Nine’s challenging legacy, it’s often the later seasons of the show—where the series and Star Trek at large was flung into the dark heart of the Dominion War—that people turn to as the point that the series really showed itself as something different. But 30 years ago today, the show…
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Avatar: The Way Of Water Looks To Make $175 Million Opening Weekend
Early tracking estimates for Avatar: The Way of Water show the sequel starting off with a bang. Current projections point to director James Cameron’s latest flick to open with between $150 million to $175 million–a notable difference domestically against the original that made $77 million initially.
Variety, the site behind these numbers, added that Avatar: The Way of Water has already sold $38 million in advance ticket sales. That puts the sequel in front of Top Gun: Maverick and Jurassic World: Dominion but trailing Dr. Strange and the Multiverse of Madness as well as Black Panther: Wakanda Forever. Those Marvel Cinematic Universe movies saw $181 million and $180 million, respectively, in their opening weekends.
Looking past this weekend, Avatar: The Way of Water won’t have much competition in the blockbuster space in the coming months. Babylon, starring Brad Pitt and Margot Robbie, and the horror film M3GAN appear to be the strongest challengers for the next month. What might hurt the Avatar sequel, though, is a running time of three hours and 12 minutes.
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Elden Ring is opening PvP colosseums in a free update tomorrow
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Elden Ring‘s Colosseums are about to get a lot busier. A free update being released tomorrow, Wednesday 7th December, is opening them up and filling them with new PvP modes. Players will be able to fight in “duels, free-for-alls and team fights,” and there’s a trailer below showing a little of them in action.