The Sonic the Hedgehog movie is tracking to open to over $40 million during Presidents’ Day weekend.
The Hollywood Reporter is expecting a four-day opening of $40 million to $45 million, while Deadline is pushing it a bit further to a potential $47 million. That’s not a bad start considering the movie has an estimated production budget of $95 million.
It’s also worth mentioning that video game movies have a history of making most of their money outside of America and Canada. According to The Numbers, movies like Tomb Raider, Assassin’s Creed, Rampage and Need for Speed have had over 75% of their box office come from international territories. The best comparison for Sonic is Detective Pikachu and the Angry Birds movies. Those PG-rated video game movies had about 2/3 of their box office come from foreign markets. If Sonic follows either of these trends, then this troubled production might end up as a success.
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The initial Sonic trailer sparked outcry that led to a drastic redesign of the CGI model for Sonic. The second trailer, and the first featuring the redesign, had the highest “like-to-dislike ratio” for any official movie trailer on Google in three years, according to the report from Deadline.
The movie stars Ben Schwartz (Parks and Recreation) as the voice of Sonic with Jim Carrey (Dumb and Dumber) as his nemesis Dr. Robotnik. The movie will open in theaters alongside the Will Ferrell-Julia Louis Dreyfus movie Downhill, horror movie Fantasy Island, the Issa Rae-Lakeith Stanfield drama The Photograph, and the romance film What About Love.
As for the rest of 2020, a Monster Hunter movie is coming to theaters on September 4 from the director and star of the Resident Evil movies. An Uncharted movie was scheduled for December 18, but that long-delayed movie was taken off the release date. Sony supposedly wants the director of Venom to hop on board, but no negotiations have taken place.
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Petey Oneto is a freelance writer for IGN.
Source: IGN.com Sonic the Hedgehog Movie Heading for a m+ Debut