SEGA SAMMY Holding announced that the film Sonic the Hedgehog, recorded a global box office of nearly $210 million in ten days. The movie had a $85 million budget so we can safely say that the movie is a success.
In this live-action adventure comedy, Sonic and his new best friend Tom team up to defend the planet from the evil genius Dr. Robotnik and his plans for world domination. James Marsden will star as Tom and Jim Carrey as Robotnik. Moreover, Ben Schwartz will lend his voice to Sonic.
Sonic the Hedgehog came out on February 14th, starting on 4,167 screens in the U.S. and more across the globe. In its first three-day opening, it recorded $58 million domestically. Thus, the movie broke the previously held record for the three-day opening of a video game adaptation of $54.3 million set by Detective Pikachu.
In its second week, Sonic the Hedgehog grossed $26,192,294 domestically. As such, it brought its U.S. box office to $107,704,000 total. The international box office total as of February 25th is $102,268,213, and its worldwide box office is almost $210 million.
From the looks of it, the decision to re-design Sonic was crucial to the film’s success. The first trailer for Sonic the Hedgehog depicted a realistic Sonic that had nothing in common with its video-game model. Fans were furious about that design, forcing Paramount Pictures to re-design it. So yeah, good job Paramount Pictures and SEGA!
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this is a movie not a game who cares
Because it is a piece of media that is based on a gaming character? Because it shows that gaming “culture” is taken more seriously from a economic perspective? Because it is his site? Because although he posted a tangential game related article, people who are not interested in the article can just ignore it? Because he wanted to and can? Because……
” Because it shows that gaming “culture” is taken more seriously from a economic perspective?”
press x to doubt, especially with current microtransaction ridden gaming culture.
I’m not talking about the gaming industry, but its culture as seen from outsiders. Rub Tom and Jerry inside that brain to keep up, bro.
outsiders? Its too mainstream to have outsiders…to its determent by the way.
“From the looks of it, the decision to re-design Sonic was crucial to the film’s success”
Considering how fast the whole transition happened, i can’t stop thinking that the whole thing was intentional. To reveal a Sonic looking like a rapist from outer space, then the actual model only days after to raise hype around the movie.
Whatever the reason behind this, it was a fun movie to watch anyway.
pretty sure there were several months inbetween.
It was not intentional… It was a decision by some producer to make sonic more “realistic” or something, they even had the “bad” design as a stand-in props for filming…
210 million and still no rdr2 crack, the state of this industry smh.
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The only franchise to monetize overly sentimental pleb outrage, I’m impressed ?
More like fans were laughing their a*s off and roasting it left and right.
Great news. Although they really need to step it up more on their second spin (no pun intended). They gotta hire a decent screenwriter or something. The only part of the whole movie that actually had some layer of depth and intrigue in the overall story was the first few minutes. Everything else was just conventional tropes, things you can easily see coming before it happened. Just because it’s aimed for kids doesn’t mean it should have dull writing. The sequel definitely needs more action than this one. The set pieces were really sparse in my opinion but I understand the tight budget they were working with.
Great news. Although they really need to step it up more on their second spin (no pun intended). They gotta hire a decent screenwriter or something. The only part of the whole movie that actually had some layer of depth and intrigue in the overall story was the first few minutes. Everything else was just conventional tropes, things you can easily see coming before it happened. Just because it’s aimed for kids doesn’t mean it should have dull writing. The sequel definitely needs more action than this one. The set pieces were really sparse in my opinion but I understand the tight budget they were working with.
Great news. Although they really need to step it up more on their second spin (no pun intended). They gotta hire a decent screenwriter or something. The only part of the whole movie that actually had some layer of depth and intrigue in the overall story was the first few minutes. Everything else was just conventional tropes, things you can easily see coming before it happened. Just because it’s aimed for kids doesn’t mean it should have dull writing. The sequel definitely needs more action than this one. The set pieces were really sparse in my opinion but I understand the tight budget they were working with.