Jason Blum is addressing the status of M3GAN .
The 46-year-old CEO of Blumhouse recently spoke out about his company and its various franchises.
During the discussion with Variety , he got candid about the underwhelming performance of M3GAN 2.0 at the box office, which brought in about $39 million, far below the $181 million haul of the original.
“This is probably true of all genres but specifically with horror today: In a post-COVID theatrical world, the hits are bigger and the bombs are bigger,” he said.
“The box office is still off 20% from where it was in 2019, which means fewer movies are getting a larger part of the pie. Also, I think because of current release windows, genre and original fare suffer the most.”
“Yes, we’ve had two original horror movies work big this