Worldwide, it’s brought in $100 million, making it the best showing of all time for a video game movie, according to Variety. With Monday being a holiday, Sonic is expected to pull in $68 million domestically.
Warner Bros.’ Birds of Prey took in a decent $17.1 million over the weekend, which was enough to land it in second place Monday is expected to bump the take to $19.6 million.
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Doing very well for themselves over the Valentine’s Day/President’s Day cluster were Blumhouse’s Fantasy Island, which earned $12.4 million, and The Photograph, starring Issa Rae and LaKeith Stanfield, which grabbed $12.2 million. Both films cost very little to produce.
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North American Box Office Estimates
Bad Boys for Life and 1917 continued their strong showings in the Top 10 while Bong Joon-ho’s Parasite received a nice box office bump following its history-making Oscar win for Best Picture.
Will Ferrell and Julia Louis-Dreyfus’ Downhill debuted to a disappointing $4.6 million.
Here are the Top 10 North American box office estimates for the (2-day) weekend (via Box Office Mojo)
- 1. Sonic the Hedgehog $57,000,000
- 2. Birds of Prey $17,115,000
- 3. Fantasy Island $12,400,000
- 4. The Photograph $12,270,000
- 5. Bad Boys for Life $11,305,000
- 6. 1917 $8,090,000
- 7. Jumanji: The Next Level $5,700,000
- 8. Parasite $5,500,500
- 9. Dolittle $5,050,000
- 10 Downhill $4,671,000
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Matt Fowler is a writer for IGN and a member of the Television Critics Association. Follow him on Twitter at @TheMattFowler and Facebook at Facebook.com/MattBFowler.