‘M3GAN’ Spinoff ‘Soulm8te’ Pulled from Universal Calendar as Its Shopped

With less than month to go until its release date and no marketing materials in sight, Soulm8te will not be arriving in theaters on Jan. 8, 2026.

Universal has pulled the spinoff of M3GAN from the release calendar, and the film is expected to be shopped to other studios. This follows Blumhouse’s M3GAN 2.0 bombing at the box office over the summer, with the sequel departing from the horror camp that made the first installment a social media-driven hit in January 2023.

“We all thought Megan was like Superman. We could do anything to her. 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 classically over-thought how powerful people’s engagement was with her,” Blumhouse founder Jason Blum said shortly after its release during a mea culpa interview on The Town.

Deadline first reported the news that the film would be shopped.

More to come.