Originally scheduled for release on January 9, 2026, Soulm8te has been dropped from Universal’s release calendar. Deadline reports that the studio is shopping the film, which takes place in the M3GAN universe. The decision comes in the wake of the disappointing response to M3GAN 2.0, which grossed $39 million worldwide against an estimated $25 million […]
Originally scheduled for release on January 9, 2026, Soulm8te has been dropped from Universal’s release calendar.
Deadline reports that the studio is shopping the film, which takes place in the M3GAN universe.
The decision comes in the wake of the disappointing response to M3GAN 2.0, which grossed $39 million worldwide against an estimated $25 million budget. By contrast, the first M3GAN made $180 million on a $12 million budget in 2022.
SOULM8TE is directed by Kate Dolan (You Are Not My Mother), written by Dolan and Rafael Jordan (Yeti: Curse of the Snow Demon), and produced by Atomic Monster’s James Wan and Blumhouse’s Jason Blum.
The film follows a man who 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 love-bot into a deadly soulmate.
Lily Sullivan (Evil Dead Rise), David Rysdahl (“Alien: Earth”), Claudia Doumit (“The Boys”), Arty Froushan (“Daredevil: Born Again”), and Oliver Cooper (Project X) star.
“SOULM8TE is basically set in the same AI world [as M3GAN] but seen through a more grown-up perspective, one that embraces all the great erotic thrillers from the ’90s,” Wan previously stated. “It’s like Fatal Attraction but with robots.”
It’s possible that any references to M3GAN will be removed from the film if it sells to another studio.
