After its world premiere, Paramount Pictures’ Sonic The Hedgehog 2 movie had the biggest opening weekend for any video game movie so far—smashing past $72 million at the US box office alone. This sequel to the 2020 film Sonic The Hedgehog also grossed a further $37 million internationally.
The Sonic The Hedgehog film series is a live-action close adaptation of the popular Sega video game franchise of the same name, featuring the adventures of the speedy anthropomorphic blue hedgehog Sonic as he arrives on Earth. The games alone have been ported and remastered for various platforms—one of which is Sonic The Hedgehog 2 for Android.
The success of the game franchise had long since inspired attempts to recreate it on the big screen and finally, 2020 saw the beginning of a planned Sonic cinematic universe. The first film had already been quite notable due to its disastrous first trailer getting revamped and garnering internet fame, but the second one just completely blows the competition out of the water.
Sonic The Hedgehog had clocked at $58 million for its own three-day weekend debut, but the sequel just topped that and more. Currently, it has made $141 million worldwide—making it Paramount Pictures’ biggest opening weekend since 2014. It’s at the top of the box office right now and has even beaten the record of another video game movie, Detective Pikachu (2019), for the second time.
Many viewers have attributed the movie’s instant success to how it catered to both fans of the games and general audiences and mostly stayed true to the characters’ portrayals. With the announcement of a third film and a spin-off series in the works, things are looking bright for the games’ continued popularity among the next generation of budding fans.
Image credit: Paramount Pictures
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