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For Sale: A M3GAN spinoff movie, completely made - just add marketing
Soulm8te, the erotic thriller set to expand "the M3GAN universe" has been pulled from the release schedule and might be sold off entirely, according to reports
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For sale: Erotic Robot Horror Movie, Never Used.
In the wake of weak box office for M3GAN 2.0 earlier this year, Universal Pictures is reported to be looking at selling off the planned spin-off movie Soulm8te, after quietly dropping the movie from its January 2026 release date.
The movie, produced by Blumhouse and Atomic Monster, was originally announced as an erotic thriller that “expands the M3GAN universe” without an explicit connection to the M3GAN movies; written and directed by Irish filmmaker Kate Dolan, the movie’s original synopsis went like this: “In this erotic thriller, 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. The film is in the tradition of the 90s domestic thrillers but with a modern, technological twist.”
What studio wouldn’t want to buy that movie? Actually, that's a real question.
Universal’s move to shop the movie follows Blumhouse founder Jason Blum’s candid admission that M3GAN 2.0 flopped at the box office because the studio misunderstood the appeal of the first movie: “We all thought M3gan was like Superman—we could do anything to her,” he explained during an appearance on The Town podcast this summer. “We could change genres, we could put her in the summer, we could make her look different, we could turn her from a bad guy into a good guy. And we kind of classically overthought how powerful people’s engagement was, really, with her.”
If Universal wants to revive M3GAN as a potential box office draw, it only makes sense that they’d quietly shelf anything that would further dilute the original’s popularity… but the question is, will Soulm8te be different enough from M3GAN to be attractive to studios and audiences as a standalone property? The movie was entirely finished — it was intended for release January 9, less than a month away! — but in the shape it’s in, does anyone want to see it?
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