{"id":123571,"date":"2022-04-04T11:00:00","date_gmt":"2022-04-04T11:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/#article-129756"},"modified":"2022-04-04T11:00:00","modified_gmt":"2022-04-04T11:00:00","slug":"sonic-the-hedgehog-2-tracking-above-its-predecessor-in-overseas-markets","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/2022\/04\/04\/sonic-the-hedgehog-2-tracking-above-its-predecessor-in-overseas-markets\/","title":{"rendered":"Sonic The Hedgehog 2 Tracking Above Its Predecessor In Overseas Markets"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Sonic the Hedgehog 2<\/strong> opened in Europe, South Africa, Australia, and New Zealand over the weekend, topping the charts and grossing $25.5 million over 31 markets. When compared with the original 2020 movie, the sequel’s performance is tracking 2% higher, and Paramount Pictures is said to be “delighted” with the results.<\/p>\n

The movie is not due to release in the US until this coming weekend, but saw strong performances in key areas such as the UK ($6.4M\/651 locations), France ($5.7M\/675), Australia ($2.8M\/289), Spain ($2.2M\/339) and Germany ($2.1M\/553). Sweden, Czech Republic, Austria, Norway, Belgium, New Zealand, Slovakia and South Africa all also saw No. 1 starts.<\/p>\n

It’s no surprise Paramount is so pleased with the performance. Sonic the Hedgehog 2’s movie producer recently spoke of creating a Sonic Cinematic Universe<\/a>, and it looks like this is already underway with the announcement of not only a third movie, but also a live-action Knuckles spin-off series<\/a>. Whether Jim Carrey will reprise his role as Dr. Robotnik is currently up in the air, however, with the actor recently stating his intention to retire from his acting career<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Have you seen Sonic the Hedgehog 2 yet? Share your thoughts on the movie below (but please be mindful of spoilers!) and let us know your thoughts on the expanding Sonic Cinematic Universe.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Image: Paramount Pictures Sonic the Hedgehog 2 opened in Europe, South Africa, Australia, and New Zealand over the weekend, topping the charts and grossing $25.5 million over 31 markets. When compared with the original 2020 movie, the sequel’s performance is tracking 2% higher, and Paramount Pictures is said to be “delighted” with the results. The […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-123571","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nintendo-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/123571","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=123571"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/123571\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=123571"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=123571"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=123571"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}