{"id":352881,"date":"2025-12-16T22:09:08","date_gmt":"2025-12-16T22:09:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/352881\/"},"modified":"2025-12-16T22:09:08","modified_gmt":"2025-12-16T22:09:08","slug":"m3gan-universe-movie-soulm8te-dropped-from-release-calendar","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/352881\/","title":{"rendered":"M3GAN’ Universe Movie ‘Soulm8te’ Dropped From Release Calendar"},"content":{"rendered":"

\n\tEXCLUSIVE: Universal, we understand, is pulling the Blumhouse and Atomic Monster sci-fi thriller Soulm8te<\/a> from its Jan. 9 release calendar next year. <\/p>\n

\n\tWe hear that the studio is shopping the Kate Dolan directed movie, which was originally billed as being connected to the M3GAN<\/a> universe. While that first 2022 PG-13 killer doll movie was a sensation with an $180M global gross and near $80M profit<\/a>, M3GAN 2.0<\/a> didn\u2019t have the juice this summer with a bigger budget than the first film ($25M net vs. $12M) and significantly less ticket sales ($39M WW). No word on where Soulm8te will land. <\/p>\n

\n\tParamount\u2019s Walter Hamada 18Mhz genre title Primate moved onto Soulm8te\u2018s release date, hence, it was bound to move at some point. Two major studios wouldn\u2019t pit two horror films against each other on the same weekend. <\/p>\n

\n\tIn Soulm8te, a man acquires an Artificially Intelligent android to cope with the loss of his recently deceased wife. In an attempt to create a truly sentient partner, he inadvertently turns a harmless lovebot into a deadly soulmate. Soulm8te stars Claudia Doumit, Lily Sullivan, Isabelle Bonfrer, Emma Ramos, Sydney Blackburn among others. <\/p>\n

\n\tThe pic was billed as being inspired by the classic erotic thrillers of the 1990s. Dolan is the award-winning writer-director of the 2021 indie horror film\u00a0You Are Not My Mother. <\/p>\n

\n\tSoulm8te is produced by Atomic Monster\u2019s James Wan and Blumhouse\u2019s Jason Blum. Wan, Ingrid Bisu (Malignant) and Rafael Jordan (Salvage Marines) wrote the story with Dolan and Jordan penning the screenplay. Pic\u00a0is executive produced by Michael Clear and Judson Scott for Atomic Monster and by Bisu.<\/p>\n

\n\tBlumhouse and Atomic Monster had major success recently with Five Nights at Freddy\u2019s 2 which with a $64M U.S.\/Canada opening repped a record debut in the post-Thanksgiving frame. The sequel based on the Scott Cawthon videogame is up to $96.8M domestic, $175M worldwide at the box office. Altogether the running cume on both Freddy\u2019s movies is $466.5M. Freddy\u2019s 2 was also the biggest December horror movie opening ever, the biggest December opening ever for Uni, and the second-largest horror opening of 2025 behind Blumhouse-Atomic Monster\u2019s own The Conjuring: Last Rites\u00a0at $84M.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"EXCLUSIVE: Universal, we understand, is pulling the Blumhouse and Atomic Monster sci-fi thriller Soulm8te from its Jan. 9…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":352882,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[52],"tags":[88,175574,27035,206,175575],"class_list":{"0":"post-352881","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-movies","8":"tag-entertainment","9":"tag-m3gan","10":"tag-m3gan-2-0","11":"tag-movies","12":"tag-soulm8te"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/352881","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=352881"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/352881\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/352882"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=352881"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=352881"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=352881"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}