The 2023 box put off to a smart start with the holiday blockbuster Avatar: The Way of Water heading towards $2 billion, and the January release of the acclaimed horror hit M3GAN, which is expected to reach $100/million globally today. What Director Gerard Johnstone’s M3GAN Means has officially joined the 10 highest-grossing horror films of the Covid pandemic era.
On track to a cumulative final of more than $130 million, M3GAN had strong reserves for its launch weekend. Monster, Divide/Conquest and Universal.
Horror has been one of the few genres that has worked relatively well more consistently, and more than many/most others, the Covid pandemic.
For 3 years or more, while other studio releases struggled to cover prices or generated only moderate effects to exceed expectations, horror films with a smaller or downright low budget made a healthy business.
While in 2020 cinema suffered at each and every point as covid spread unchecked and internal politics was to deny its lifestyle or falsely claim that it would end soon and refuse to do anything to save it or slow its spread until vaccines were despite each and every one available. As a result of what can literally be called an anti-public fitness policy in this brutal first year of the pandemic, widespread illness and death coupled with the closure of premises and businesses in a desperate attempt to reduce the amount of pandemic. bodies until vaccines arrive.
This real-life horror spectacle meant that theaters were closed for much of the year, and even when they were open, few people accepted the threat of venturing out for a screening. Only one 2020 film entered the 10 most sensitive Covid era, as you will soon see when I list the 10 most sensible artists. But until 2021, things were getting better, so much so that two of the 3 most sensible horror artists on the list are from that year. But 2022 was the time when the doors really opened and the public rewarded the horror with several wonderful artists and many more with success and successful, albeit more modest, results in the workplace.
M3GAN director Johnstone and writer/producer Aleka Cooper have a lot to celebrate, as they got the wonderful luck of the box and the right reviews for their film, as well as the fact that it is now officially among the highest-grossing horror releases of the pandemic era. .
Similarly, they can be proud of the quick announcement of a sequel [Update: This afternoon after publication, Universal announced a release date of January 17, 2025 for M3GAN 2. 0], which is set to not only re-tread the same ground as the first film but take it in an attractive new direction and exploit more horror subgenres (as a twist on the “haunted house” approach). you have to protect them this time from the new risks that await them (that’s all I’ll say, lest I ruin M3GAN).
Now, let’s take a look at the 10 highest-grossing horror movie releases of the Covid pandemic era, from 2020 to today.
At the end of its career, M3GAN will move up that list and occupy the eighth position in Halloween Kills, some other Blumhouse production. The Invisible Man would be a big task at this point, so I suspect M3GAN will be more than pleased to settle into a comfortable seat in seventh position, which is a glorious result.
Keep in mind, by the way, that M3GAN offers Blumhouse five of the 10 most sensible wholesalers on the list: The Invisible Man, The Black Phone, Halloween Kills, Halloween Ends, and M3GAN. So Blumhouse has definitely felt a lot of love from the public despite the pandemic of recent years.
Be sure to come back here soon for more updates on M3GAN, other horror versions, and much more, from boxes to movies to streaming reviews, expensive readers.
And if you’re heading to the theater this weekend, don’t mask yourself: the pandemic is rarely ongoing, it’s resurfacing dangerously with new variants that are the most seamlessly transmissible to date, and that would possibly have increased resistance to vaccines and other medical remedies for covid. Besides, the flu is there too, and it’s bad. So stay safe, protect yourself and others who may be immunocompromised or in a different way at increased risk for serious illness. , death or long-term Covid outcomes.