Risultati di ricerca
Gerard Johnstone is a New Zealand screenwriter and director. He is known for the comedy sitcom series The Jaquie Brown Diaries and the horror films Housebound and M3GAN.
Gerard Johnstone, född 4 mars 1976 i Invercargill på Nya Zeeland, är en nyzeeländsk manusförfattare, samt film - och TV-regissör. Han är bland annat känd för att vara regissör på sci-fi-skräckfilmen M3GAN, som premiärvisades för första gången i december 2022.
- Plot
- Production
- Release
- Reception
- Sequel
- External Links
After her parents are killed in a car accident, eight-year-old Cady is sent to live with her aunt Gemma, a roboticist at the high-tech Seattle toy company, Funki. Gemma is covertly using the company's resources to develop M3GAN (Model 3 Generative Android), a child-sized humanoid robot doll powered by artificial intelligence, designed to be the ult...
Development and writing
The idea of the film began when Wan's Atomic Monster production company was brainstorming story ideas and chose one about a killer doll. Although Wan's 2014 film Annabelle is about a killer doll, he said, "Pretty much the concept is about embracing technology too much and relying too much on it. And what happens when technology runs amok. It's a commentary on the world we live in and it feels relevant". Blum stated that the film would have black comedy elements which is one reason Johnstone w...
Casting
In October 2020, Allison Williams was cast in the leading role, followed by Violet McGraw in April 2021, and Ronny Chiengthe following month.
Filming
On a budget of $12 million, principal photography began in June 2021 taking place in Los Angeles, California, and Auckland, New Zealand. The suburbs of Auckland were utilized to lend the film a "Denver, Colorado, type feel". Filming was completed by mid-August right before a COVID-19 lockdown occurred in New Zealand. The film underwent reshoots in post-production in order to secure a PG-13 rating from the Motion Picture Association, after the original cut was deemed too violent.
M3GAN had its world premiere in Los Angeles on December 7, 2022, before expanding to a wide theatrical release in the United States on January 6, 2023. It was originally scheduled to be released on January 13, 2023, before being moved up a week in order to avoid competition with House Party and the wide expansion of A Man Called Otto, which were al...
Box office
M3GAN grossed $95 million in the United States and Canada, and $86 million in other territories, for a worldwide gross of $181 million. Deadline Hollywood calculated the net profit of the film to be $78.8million, when factoring together all expenses and revenues. In the United States and Canada, M3GAN was initially projected to gross $17–20 million from 3,509 theaters in its opening weekend. After making $11.7 million on its first day (including $2.75 million from Thursday night previews), es...
Critical response
On review aggregator website Rotten Tomatoes, the film has an approval rating of 93% based on 315 reviews and an average rating of 7.2/10. The website's critical consensus reads: "Unapologetically silly and all the more entertaining for it, M3GAN is the rare horror-comedy that delivers chuckles as effortlessly as chills". On Metacritic, the film has a weighted average score of 72 out of 100 based on 54 critics, indicating "generally favorable reviews". Audiences polled by CinemaScore gave the...
Accolades
At the 2023 MTV Movie & TV Awards, M3GAN was nominated for Best Villain (M3GAN). The film was nominated in three categories at the 2023 Golden Trailer Awards: "Family" (Inside Job) for Best Horror, and "Bringing Life To M3GAN" (The Fabulous Group) and "Meet M3GAN" (Paradise Creative) for Best Digital – Horror / Thriller. It won the Best Digital – Horror/Thriller category for "Getting Hacked". M3GAN won Best Horror at the 6th Hollywood Critics Association Midseason Film Awards. At the 51st Sat...
In November 2022, The New York Times reported that Universal was pleased by how the film turned out and is planning to make a sequel. In January 2023, Johnstone confirmed talks of a sequel, with Wan explaining that he has an "idea of where sequels would go". The sequel, M3GAN 2.0, was written by Cooper with Williams and McGraw returning as Gemma an...
M3GAN at IMDbM3GAN at MetacriticM3GAN at Rotten Tomatoes10 gen 2023 · Gerard Johnstone is the director of M3gan and lots of other, lesser-known gems. We’ve been talking to him about his instant-cult killer robot movie and everything that led up to it.
Housebound is a 2014 New Zealand horror comedy film written, edited, and directed by Gerard Johnstone, in his feature film directorial debut. The film had its world premiere on 10 March 2014, at South by Southwest and stars Morgana O'Reilly as a woman sentenced to house arrest in a potentially haunted house.
8 gen 2023 · Intervista a Gerard Johnstone, regista di M3gan, film horror in cui una bambola super tecnologica diventa la migliore amica di una bambina. In sala.
Gerard Johnstone is a New Zealand screenwriter and director. He is known for the comedy sitcom series The Jaquie Brown Diaries and the horror films Housebound and M3GAN. Johnstone was born in Invercargill, New Zealand, where he attended Verdon College.
