Is it just us, or was Drew Barrymore a bit robotic in the latest episode of her show??
20.01.2023 - 00:11 / usmagazine.com
Your new best friend is back! After the viral success of M3GAN, the horror movie is getting a sequel — and Allison Williams is set to return as her remorseful creator.
M3GAN became a viral hit months before its January 2023 release, in part because of a scene in the trailer that showed the robot doll pausing her murder spree for a dance break. One popular meme suggested that M3GAN is a “yassified” version of Annabelle, the haunted doll from the Conjuring franchise.
While the film was the brunt of many social media jokes, it quickly became a hit at the box office, earning more than $100 million in its first month of release and finishing its opening weekend in second place behind Avatar: The Way of Water.
The movie follows Gemma (Williams), a roboticist who becomes the guardian of her niece, Cady (Violet McGraw), after Cady’s parents die in a car crash. The career-focused Gemma has trouble connecting with Cady until she introduces her to her latest creation: the Model 3 Generative Android, or M3GAN, for short.
Cady and M3GAN hit it off right away, but Gemma soon realizes that her niece is getting too close to the robot girl for comfort, and authorities start to notice that bodies are piling up. When the film ends, M3GAN — spoiler alert — is seemingly dead, but the final shot reveals that her consciousness has taken over the camera in Gemma’s smart home.
Though M3GAN is responsible for multiple deaths, Williams joked that the robot does have a few redeeming qualities. “She is very loyal. She is,” the Girls alum told BuzzFeed in January 2023. “She’s a good diagnostician and analyst of vital signs. She is watchful, and she is a gifted performer.”
On a more serious note, the Get Out actress explained that the birth of her own son,
Is it just us, or was Drew Barrymore a bit robotic in the latest episode of her show??
With his first project after leaving Disney Animation in 2018, director Chris Williams has already received an Oscar nomination. “When I arrived at Netflix Animation, it was certainly a daunting realization that I was a crew of one,” he laughs. He attributes this nomination to his team of animators. “One director does not make a movie, I needed to work with an incredibly talented team to make a movie as ambitious as this, and I was so lucky that so many amazing artists were willing to join me on this journey… I’m just really proud of the crew. They deserve the recognition.”
To the delight of many, the Oscar nomination announcements returned to a live setting for 2023 at the Samuel Goldwyn Theater in Beverly Hills. “M3GAN” star Allison Williams and Oscar winner Riz Ahmed were up bright and early to reveal the nominees to the audible reaction of the studio publicists waiting in the wings.
Horror movie M3GAN has been a such a breakout boxoffice hit, a sequel already has been greenlighted. What’s more, the film’s titular character — an AI doll who kills people while protecting the orphaned girl she was given to by her aunt (Allison Williams) — has become a gay icon.
My guest this week is Jason Segel.
Raise a glass! After the widespread success of A Simple Favor, Anna Kendrick and Blake Lively will return for a sequel to the movie.
In a nutshell the brilliantly hilarious, pertinent, and wickedly smart new movie, You People is in some ways a new age Guess Who’s Coming To Dinner, that landmark 1967 Tracy-Hepburn-Poitier Oscar winning comedy about the effect an interracial relationship has on the parents of the young couple. Of course back then it was a major social issue and even had trouble booking some southern theatres. The idea was switched in a Bernie Mac/Ashton Kutcher 2005 remake that all those years later did not have the same impact. With anti-semitism and racism back on the rise in 2023 America however the concept of an interracial/interfaith marriage, Black and White, Jew and Muslim, could not be more timely or needed, and in co-star Jonah Hill’s and director Kenya Barris’ whipsmart screenplay is also a knock-you-out-of- your-seat laugh riot. Ironically I saw it this week at its World Premiere at the same Westwood Village theatre where I saw Guess Who’s Coming To Dinner all those years ago. With a packed house the laughter was so continuous and loud for You People it was hard to hear a lot of the lines. When was the last time that happened?
Is the critical acclaim for “M3GAN” overblown? Maybe, but its box office numbers don’t lie. After pulling in $92 million globally off a $12 million budget, a sequel to the killer doll horror-comedy was inevitable.
Nothing to be alarmed about — as we told you, M3GAN 2.0, was inevitable and Uni just set a Jan. 17, 2025 release for sequel to the Blumhouse and Atomic Monster hit film.
Academy Award winner Riz Ahmed and M3gan star Allison Williams have been tapped to host the 2023 Oscar nominations on Tuesday, January 24.
Yes, y’all, Allison Williams knows she’s a nepo baby!
M3GAN the movie’s popularity rides on that unforgettable, seconds-long dance sequence that played so heavily in its marketing, at once hilarious and deeply unsettling. But the titular toy’s appeal is more than just a piece of perfectly executed choreo.While much has been made of “elevated” in recent years, M3GAN revels in its ridiculousness. The movie follows Cady (Violet McGraw), a young girl who has recently lost her parents in a toy-related car accident.