M3GAN

MΞGAN

Credits
Title:	MΞGAN
Director:	Gerard Johnstone
Writers:	Akela Cooper; James Wan
Producers:	Jason Blum; James Wan; Ryan Turek; Couper Samuelson; Adam Hendricks; Mark David Katchur; Michael Clear; Greg Gilreath; Judson Scott; Allison Williams
Composer:	Anthony Willis
Cinematography:	Simon Raby; Peter McCaffrey
Editors:	Jeff McEvoy
Production
Production company:	Atomic Monster Blumhouse Productions Divide/Conquer
Distributed by:	Universal Pictures
Released:	January 6th, 2023
Rating:	PG-13
Running time:	102 min.
Country:	USA
Language:	English
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MΞGAN is an American feature film of the science fiction and horror genres. It was directed by Gerard Johnstone with a screenplay written by Akela Cooper based on a story by Cooper and James Wan. It was produced by Atomic Monster, Blumhouse Productions and Divide/Conquer. It was released theatrically in the United States on January 6th, 2023.

Cast[]

Actor	Role
Allison Williams	Gemma Forrester
Violet McGraw	Cady James
Ronny Chieng	David
Amie Donald	M3GAN
Jenna Davis	M3GAN voice
Brian Jordan Alvarez	Cole
Jen Van Epps	Tess
Stephane Garneau-Monten	Kurt
Lori Dungey	Celia
Amy Usherwood	Lydia
Jack Cassidy	Brandon
Michael Saccente	Greg
Samson Chan-Boon	Officer Carter
Kira Josephson	Ava
Renee Lyons	Holly
Millen Baird	Police detective
Chelsie Preston Crayford	Nicole James
Arlo Green	Ryan James
Jaya Beach-Robertson	Screaming woman
Cameron Randell	Purrpetial Petz daughter
Clinton Randell	Purrpetial Petz father
Marley Sharpe	Purrpetial Petz friend
Coco Poole	Furzees dancer
Mila Leith	Furzees dancer
Ruby Qereqeretabua	Furzees dancer

Notes & Trivia[]

The tagline for this film is "Evil has evolved".
"M3gan" and "MΞGAN" both redirect to this page.
There are a total of twenty-five credited cast members in this film.
Production and principal photography on M3gan began on April 10th, 2021. Principal filming wrapped on June 19th, 2021 with production concluding on July 1st, 2021.
M3GAN grossed $30,429,860 over its opening weekend. It grossed $94,944,220 during its domestic theatrical run and $77,354,4310 internationally. It had a worldwide gross of $172,298,530. Compared to its thematic predecessor, the Child's Play remake, it made $127,391,456 more in worldwide ticket sales.
M3GAN opened at number one at the box office, narrowly edging out Avatar: The Way of Water, which had been in release for twenty-two days. Other Universal Pictures films still in release that week include Puss in Boots: The Last Wish and Violent Night.
M3GAN was released on streaming media on the Peacock streaming service on February 24th, 2023.
M3GAN was released on Blu-ray (with DVD and digital HD) by Universal Studios on March 21st, 2023. This includes both the theatrical release and the unrated version.
M3GAN is the first major film of both the science fiction and horror genres released in 2023. The next genre film of note in 2023 is The Devil Conspiracy, which technically premiered in September, 2022 at the Brussels International Fantastic Film Festival, but made its U.S. debut on January 13th, 2023.
On the movie review aggregator Rotten Tomatoes, M3GAN has a Tomatometer score of 93% based on three-hundred reviews, averaging 7.10 out of 10. It has 280 positive reviews and 20 negative reviews. It has an audience score of 78% based on more than 2,500 verified ratings, averaging 4 out of 5.
On the Internet Movie Database (IMDB), M3GAN has a star rating of 6.4 out of 10 based on 78,389 user votes.
On Metacritic, M3GAN received a weighted average Metascore of 73 out of 100 based on twenty-two critic reviews.
On Letterboxd, the film has a weighted average rating of 3.11 out of 5 based on 289,499 user ratings.
This is director Gerard Johnstone's first work in the science fiction and horror genres.
This is lead actress Allison Williams' first work as an executive producer.
Actress Allison Williams is best known for playing the female lead of Rose Armitage in Get Out in 2017. She also played Charlotte in The Perfection in 2018.
Divide/Conquer is also known for producing Cam in 2018.
The first victim of M3GAN in this movie is Dewey, who is a ferocious dog owned by Gemma's neighbor, Celia. The first human victim is Brandon, though M3GAN is only indirectly responsible for his death.
The unrated version of this film shows the deaths of David and Kurt and slightly more explicit detail. You see the paper cutter blade stabbing through David's chest, and you see M3GAN slash/stab through Kurt's throat in the elevator. In the theatrical release, the actual kills are implied, but not seen.
The song that M3GAN is playing on the piano is "Toy Soldiers", written and preformed by Martika in in 1988.
The song that M3GAN sings to Cady as a lullaby is "Titanium" written by producer David Guetta and performed by Australian singer Sia. The irony in this song choice is that M3GAN is composed of Titanium.
A clip from this film is seen on a television screen that Chucky is watching in the "Death Becomes Her" episode of Chucky. After viewing it, Chucky is outraged and blames the eponymous antagonist for stealing all of his moves. He punctuates his anger with a phonetic portmanteau, "Fuck you, Me-THREE-gan!"

Body Count[]

Nicole James - Killed in automobile accident.
Ryan James - Killed in automobile accident.
Dewey the Dog - Killed off-screen and buried.
Brandon - Ear ripped off and chased into oncoming traffic.
Celia - Nail gun through the hand; face sprayed with chemicals from power washer.
David - Impaled through the back with a paper cutter blade.
Kurt - Stabbed in the throat with a paper cutter blade.
M3GAN - Ripped in half by Cady/Bruce. Stabbed in "brain" by Cady.

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