SONIC THE HEDGEHOG Hits A Home Run With Record-Breaking $70 Million Debut Over Presidents' Day Weekend

Paramount Pictures' Sonic the Hedgehog movie is exceeding expectations at the box office, speeding toward a record-breaking $70 million opening over the 4-day Presidents' Day holiday weekend...

By RohanPatel - Feb 17, 2020 06:02 PM EST

Filed Under: Sonic the Hedgehog

Source: The Hollywood Reporter

Paramount Pictures' Sonic the Hedgehog is racing toward a sensational $70 million 4-day launch ($58M 3-day) over the extended Valentine's Day/Presidents' Day holiday weekend, and has now topped Warner Bros.' Detective Pikachu ($54.4M 3-day) to secure the biggest opening weekend ever for a video game movie.

Internationally, the Jeff Fowler-directed film, which stars Ben Schwartz (Parks and Recreation), James Marsden (X-Men) and 2x Golden Globe-winner Jim Carrey (Kidding), brought in another $43 million over the weekend and has now grossed $113 million worldwide through Monday. That's an absolutely tremendous start for the well-received video game movie adaptation, which carried an estimated production budget in the $81M - $95 million range, and should all but guarantee a sequel.

After an underwhelming launch last week, Warner Bros.' Birds of Prey (and the Fantabulous Emancipation of One Harley Quinn) dropped an unsettling 48% in its second frame, earning $19.9 million through the four day holiday ($17M 3-day). Its domestic cume now stands at approximately $62.2 million, which combined with its updated $83.6M international total takes its current worldwide sum to $145.8 million.

The Cathy Yan-directed R-rated comic book movie still faces an uphill battle to profitability, as Variety reports that it'll need at least $100 million domestically and somewhere between $250M to $300 million worldwide just to break even.

Here's the rest of the U.S. box office Top 10:

Sonic the Hedgehog (Paramount) - $58M 3-day; $70M 4-day
Birds of Prey (and the Fantabulous Emancipation of One Harley Quinn) (WB) - $17M 3-day; $19.9M 4-day
Fantasy Island (Sony) - $12.3M 3-day; $14M 4-day
The Photograph (Universal) - $12.2M 3-day; $13.3M 4-day
Bad Boys for Life (Sony) - $11.5M 3-day; $13M 4-day
1917 (Universal) - $8.1M 3-day; $9.4M 4-day
Parasite (Neon) - $5.7M 3-day; $6.8M 4-day
Jumanji: The Next Level (Sony) - $5.5M 3-day
Dolittle (Universal) - $5M 3-day; $6.3M 4-day
Downhill (Fox Searchlight) - $4.6M 3-day; $5.1M 4-day

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James Marsden in SONIC THE HEDGEHOG from Paramount Pictures and Sega. Photo Credit: Doane Gregory.

James Marsden and Tika Sumpter in SONIC THE HEDGEHOG from Paramount Pictures and Sega. Photo Credit: Doane Gregory.

Neal McDonough, Jim Carrey, and Lee Majdoub in SONIC THE HEDGEHOG from Paramount Pictures and Sega. Photo Credit: Doane Gregory.

Tika Sumpter and James Marsden in SONIC THE HEDGEHOG from Paramount Pictures and Sega. Photo Credit: Doane Gregory.

Jim Carrey and James Marsden in SONIC THE HEDGEHOG from Paramount Pictures and Sega. Photo Credit: Doane Gregory.

Jim Carrey in SONIC THE HEDGEHOG from Paramount Pictures and Sega. Photo Credit: Doane Gregory.

Sonic (Ben Schwartz) in SONIC THE HEDGEHOG from Paramount Pictures and Sega. Photo Credit: Courtesy Paramount Pictures and Sega of America.

Sonic (Ben Schwartz) and James Marsden in SONIC THE HEDGEHOG from Paramount Pictures and Sega. Photo Credit: Courtesy Paramount Pictures and Sega of America.

Sonic (Ben Schwartz) in SONIC THE HEDGEHOG from Paramount Pictures and Sega. Photo Credit: Courtesy Paramount Pictures and Sega of America.

Jim Carrey in SONIC THE HEDGEHOG from Paramount Pictures and Sega. Photo Credit: Courtesy Paramount Pictures and Sega of America.

Sonic (Ben Schwartz) in SONIC THE HEDGEHOG from Paramount Pictures and Sega. Photo Credit: Courtesy Paramount Pictures and Sega of America.

Lee Majdoub and Jim Carrey in SONIC THE HEDGEHOG from Paramount Pictures and Sega. Photo Credit: Courtesy Paramount Pictures and Sega of America.

Jim Carrey in SONIC THE HEDGEHOG from Paramount Pictures and Sega. Photo Credit: Courtesy Paramount Pictures and Sega of America.

Sonic (Ben Schwartz) and James Marsden in SONIC THE HEDGEHOG from Paramount Pictures and Sega. Photo Credit: Courtesy Paramount Pictures and Sega of America.

James Marsden and Sonic (Ben Schwartz) in SONIC THE HEDGEHOG from Paramount Pictures and Sega. Photo Credit: Courtesy Paramount Pictures and Sega of America.

Tika Sumpter, James Marsden, and Sonic (Ben Schwartz) in SONIC THE HEDGEHOG from Paramount Pictures and Sega. Photo Credit: Courtesy Paramount Pictures and Sega of America.

Neal McDonough and Jim Carrey in SONIC THE HEDGEHOG from Paramount Pictures and Sega. Photo Credit: Courtesy Paramount Pictures and Sega of America.

Based on the global blockbuster videogame franchise from Sega, SONIC THE HEDGEHOG tells the story of the world’s speediest hedgehog as he embraces his new home on Earth. In this live-action adventure comedy, Sonic and his new best friend Tom (James Marsden) team up to defend the planet from the evil genius Dr. Robotnik (Jim Carrey) and his plans for world domination. The family-friendly film also stars Tika Sumpter and Ben Schwartz as the voice of Sonic.

Sonic the Hedgehog features:
Director: Jeff Fowler
Ben Schwartz as Sonic the Hedgehog
Jim Carrey as Dr. Ivo Robotnik/Doctor Eggman
James Marsden as Tom Wachowski
Tika Sumpter as Dr. Annie Wachowski
Adam Pally in an undisclosed role
Neal McDonough as Major Bennington
Lee Majdoub as Stone
Frank C. Turner as Crazy Carl
Natasha Rothwell in an undisclosed role
Debs Howard in an undisclosed role
Elfina Luk in an undisclosed role
Riff Raff in an undisclosed role

Sonic the Hedgehog speeds into theaters February 14

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MUTO123 - 2/17/2020, 6:37 PM

I haven't seen it, but it's most likely much better than Fantasy Island.

regularmovieguy - 2/17/2020, 6:45 PM

@MUTO123

Was it even bad-good or just really shitty, bad-bad?

MUTO123 - 2/17/2020, 6:47 PM

@regularmovieguy - It's boring bad for the most part, but gets hysterically bad at the end.

And the final reveal will make you wanna throw something at the screen.

dragon316 - 2/17/2020, 6:50 PM

@regularmovieguy - @regularmovieguy - answer your question go see it find out never take strangers word on things people like infinity war I do not I like end game and transformers movies people do not if five star chef working at five star Resturant you ask chef what you recommend chef reply deep fried cockroach do you order that plate chef has recommend same thing goes in life movies games vacation food music

TinyTinyMan - 2/17/2020, 6:52 PM

@dragon316 - ...bruh what

MUTO123 - 2/17/2020, 6:54 PM

@TinyTinyMan - I blocked him for a reason/

regularmovieguy - 2/17/2020, 6:55 PM

@dragon316

Stop. I know what movies I want to watch. You rant on this shit all the time and it rarely makes sense, man.

Was just curious to hear what he thought. Lmao.

regularmovieguy - 2/17/2020, 6:57 PM

@MUTO123

Hahah damn, dude.

Doubt I’ll check it out in theaters but this sounds like something I can have fun with at home - if the last act is as bad as it sounds.

MUTO123 - 2/17/2020, 6:59 PM

@regularmovieguy - Have lots of alcohol on hand. You'll need it.

AnthonyVonGeek - 2/17/2020, 6:38 PM

Great movie and it deserves this and more.

KWilly - 2/17/2020, 6:44 PM

With this being a hit, I can only imagine what the Super Mario Bros movie will be like if it's just even halfway decent.

regularmovieguy - 2/17/2020, 6:45 PM

@KWilly

Isn’t it from Illumination? Prolly going to be shit honestly... their movies are usually doody.

KWilly - 2/17/2020, 6:47 PM

@regularmovieguy - Illumination is just the company that provides the animation. Reports said one of the Nintendo directors will heavily look over the film, so there's that.

regularmovieguy - 2/17/2020, 6:48 PM

@KWilly

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