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M3GAN 2.0 Flops: $17M Box Office Disappointment

7/4/2025

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M3GAN 2.0 stumbled at the box office, raking in just $17 million instead of the anticipated $45 million. Blumhouse founder Jason Blum attributed the disappointing performance to poor genre shifts and an ill-timed summer release. Reflecting on the miscalculation, he lamented, "We got too excited by M3GAN, and she didn’t work."

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M3GAN 2.0 stumbled at the box office, raking in just $17 million instead of the anticipated $45 million. Blumhouse founder Jason Blum attributed the disappointing performance to poor genre shifts and an ill-timed summer release. Reflecting on the miscalculation, he lamented, "We got too excited by M3GAN, and she didn’t work."