{"id":681570,"date":"2026-07-09T03:08:14","date_gmt":"2026-07-09T03:08:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/681570\/"},"modified":"2026-07-09T03:08:14","modified_gmt":"2026-07-09T03:08:14","slug":"soulm8te-trailer-abandoned-m3gan-spin-off-is-back-from-the-dead","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/681570\/","title":{"rendered":"SOULM8TE Trailer: Abandoned M3GAN Spin-Off Is Back From The Dead"},"content":{"rendered":"

After M3GAN 2.0<\/a>, Blumhouse and Atomic Monster\u2019s burgeoning horror franchise got something of a downgrade. The first M3GAN<\/a> was a monster hit, pulling in $180 million at the global box office with its tale of a sinister robot doll going awry. But then last year\u2019s M3GAN 2.0 \u2013 which went much bigger, spinning the series into a summer blockbuster with more of an action bent \u2013 got the blue screen of death, making less than $40 million in total, despite great reviews. In the wake of that, things weren\u2019t looking good for SOULM8TE \u2013 a M3GAN-verse spin-off<\/a> with more of a grown-up angle, delving into the \u2018robot girlfriend\u2019 subgenre.<\/p>\n

Due to hit cinemas at the start of 2026, SOULM8TE quietly disappeared from the release schedule, and has been little heard-of since. Until now. The trailer has finally arrived, touting a digital release for the movie \u2013 watch the teaser here:<\/p>\n

Directed by Kate Dolan, from a script she co-wrote with Rafael Jordan, SOULM8TE stars Evil Dead Rise<\/a>\u2019s Lily Sullivan as Sara \u2013 an android, purchased by David Rysdahl\u2019s widower David for\u2026 companionship, shall we say. But when he starts meddling with Sara\u2019s coding, it soon becomes clear that\u2019s a big mistake, bringing danger to him and those around him (including a new human love interest, played by The Boys\u2019 Claudia Doumit). If it sounds like a mix of Companion<\/a> and Obsession<\/a>, well the trailer certainly leans that way too. The film is produced by James Wan and Jason Blum, under their Blumhouse \/ Atomic Monster partnership.<\/p>\n

Notably, the trailer confirms the film is being distributed as a digital release by Universal \u2013 and it will be available in a few weeks from now, on 1 August. Stay tuned for more information on whether that\u2019s an international release, or whether it\u2019ll land in the US before arriving elsewhere. Either way, SOULM8TE is finally being let out of the box. Could it prove there\u2019s life in the M3GAN series yet? Answers are currently loading\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"After M3GAN 2.0, Blumhouse and Atomic Monster\u2019s burgeoning horror franchise got something of a downgrade. The first M3GAN…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":681571,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[96,2839,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-681570","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-movies","tag-entertainment","tag-movies","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/681570","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=681570"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/681570\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/681571"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=681570"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=681570"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=681570"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}