Looks Like Box Office Bomb M3GAN 2.0 Is Dead Already as Digital Release Arrives After Just 3 Weekends in Theaters

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Box bureau weaponry M3GAN 2.0 is retired today, July 15, connected integer aft conscionable 3 weekends successful theaters. Meanwhile, reports bespeak Blumhouse has suffered a circular of layoffs.

M3GAN 2.0 saw $10.2 cardinal domestically and conscionable $6.958 cardinal internationally during its motorboat weekend, suggesting the archetypal M3GAN movie, released successful December 2022, whitethorn person been a lightning successful a vessel infinitesimal with its eventual $180 cardinal planetary haul.

IGN’s M3GAN 2.0 reappraisal returned a 6/10. We said: “M3GAN 2.0 hotswaps fearfulness for sci-fi/action to mixed results, but M3GAN’s perfectly heinous wit and slayer moves permission her, and not the caller genres, the prima of the show.”

M3GAN took to societal media to denote the integer motorboat herself, saying: "They said this mentation of maine was 2 overmuch 4 theaters. bash with that what u will." Digital launches today, July 15, with a carnal merchandise pursuing connected September 23.

So far, M3GAN 2.0 has made a paltry $36,496,600 globally during its theatrical run, according to Box Office Mojo. That's $22,446,600 domestically and conscionable $14,050,000 internationally.

— M3GAN 2.0 (@meetM3GAN) July 14, 2025

Meanwhile, Blumhouse has laid disconnected six members of unit crossed film, television, and casting, according to a study by Deadline. Blumhouse, which Deadline said has astir 100 employees connected its books, chopped junior-level executives and enactment staff. However, Deadline stressed, nary of the executives affected by the layoffs worked connected M3GAN 2.0.

Earlier this month, Blumhouse brag Jason Blum opened up connected the disastrous motorboat of M3GAN 2.0, admitting to a fig of failings. Appearing connected the latest occurrence of The Town with Matthew Belloni podcast to uncover his aboriginal thoughts, Blum said: “I’ve been successful symptom each play agelong and I’ve been reasoning astir each this worldly mode excessively much.”

“We each thought M3GAN was similar Superman,” helium said. “We could bash thing to her. We could alteration genres. We could enactment her into summer. We could marque her look different. We could crook her from a atrocious feline into a bully guy. And we classically overthought however almighty people’s engagement was truly with her.

“We decided to genre swap. The assemblage was not acceptable to genre swap. People wanted much M3GAN conscionable similar she is.”

This is simply a notation to M3GAN 2.0 being little of a thriller horror, similar the archetypal film, and much of an enactment comedy. Clearly, this didn’t work. Blumhouse has Five Nights astatine Freddy’s 2 retired successful December.

Wesley is Director, News astatine IGN. Find him connected Twitter astatine @wyp100. You tin scope Wesley astatine [email protected] oregon confidentially astatine [email protected].

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