{"id":180900,"date":"2023-01-08T18:37:01","date_gmt":"2023-01-08T18:37:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/box-office-m3gan-movie-beats-expectations-avatar-2-stays-no-one-2\/"},"modified":"2023-01-08T18:37:01","modified_gmt":"2023-01-08T18:37:01","slug":"box-office-m3gan-movie-beats-expectations-avatar-2-stays-no-one-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/box-office-m3gan-movie-beats-expectations-avatar-2-stays-no-one-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Box Office: ‘M3GAN’ Movie Beats Expectations, ‘Avatar 2’ Stays No. one"},"content":{"rendered":"
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\tMove over, Jamie Lee Curtis and Neve Campbell. There’s a new scream queen in town.<\/p>\n
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\tUniversal and Blumhouse’s creepy doll thriller \u201cM3GAN\u201d \u2014 short for Model 3 Generative Android \u2014 made a killing in its opening weekend, collecting a better-than-expected $30.2 million from 3,509 North American theaters. Internationally, the film has generated $14.8 million to date, taking its global tally to $45 million.<\/p>\n
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\tHeading into the weekend, the PG-13 movie was projected to open to $17 million to $20 million in North America, but stellar word-of-mouth and audiences’ enduring love for horror were key in significantly outperforming expectations. It’s a killer start for the $12 million-budgeted movie. <\/p>\n
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\t\u201cBlumhouse and James Wan’s Atomic Monster delivered an incredible movie. It’s fun, it’s scary, it’s thrilling,\u201d says Jim Orr, Universal’s president of domestic distribution. \u201cWord-of-mouth is through the roof.\u201d<\/p>\n
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\tAnd the turnout for \u201cM3GAN\u201d is especially encouraging to Hollywood and theater owners alike because January tends to be a box office dead zone. \u201cM3GAN\u201d is the first movie to open to more than $30 million in the first week of the new year in over a decade, when 2012’s \u201cThe Devil Inside\u201d kicked off to $33.7 million. <\/p>\n
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