Avatar: The Way of Water it’s doing good business at the box office for now, and January is also often a month when not many spectacular releases are expected. Yet a challenger is coming.
Horror really is the genre that often peaks at the start of the new year and kicks off this week M3GAN Be the first to bid for as many dollars as possible at the world cinema box office.
The movie of universal studies about a killer doll android is expected to open big in its first weekend with a forecast of over $20 million dollars.
Since the production budget was $12 million dollars, a large profit is immediately made. The blue Na’vi on the planet of Pandora James Cameron probably won’t be dethroned, but…
Secretly a little lookout
There is a potential audience that might be a little tired of sequels and would rather opt for something original. M3GAN it recently received re-shoots to make the final result more PG-13 and therefore more widely accessible.
But according to the director Gerard Johnstone it just got scarier from that. The shift is remarkable, as major R-rated horror titles were just starting to make a comeback… (Think Halloween ends)
