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By Jordan Moreau According To The variety M3GAN is back for more AI doll horror. Blumhouse has revealed the first look at “M3GAN 2.0,” the sequel to the surprise horror hit from 2023 that introduced the world to the dancing, murdering robot M3GAN. In the short teaser that debuted during the the stage during the award show to perform “Pink Pony Club.” The first “M3GAN,” which stands for Model 3 Generative Android, follows a Grammys, the killer doll showed off some new dance moves while dancing to Chappell Roan‘s “Femininomenon.” The spot premiered shortly after Roan took young girl named Cady (Violet McGraw), who loses her parents in a car the ultimate companion for kids. Unsurprisingly, the AI robot turns dangerous and kills anything that she deems a threat to Cady. Gemma and Cady de...

By Owen Gleiberman According To The variety A dozen years ago, at the 2013 Sundance Film Festival, I sat in the Eccles Theatre and watched “Fruitvale” (later entitled “Fruitvale Station”), Ryan Coogler’s true-life drama about Oscar Grant, a young man who was fatally shot by Bay Area police, even though he had done nothing. By the time the film ended, everyone in the audience knew that we’d seen something straight-up extraordinary, and that Coogler was a born filmmaker. When he got up on stage, he was ebullient — grateful for the response, but you could also see, as his words poured forth, that he was already bursting with the stories he wanted to tell. This, for a viewer (or critic), is the Sundance dream: to go into a film you know nothing about, and two hours later you’ve witness...