{"id":123746,"date":"2022-04-09T03:30:00","date_gmt":"2022-04-09T03:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/#article-130005"},"modified":"2022-04-09T03:30:00","modified_gmt":"2022-04-09T03:30:00","slug":"sonic-2-movie-speeding-towards-65-million-in-its-us-opening-weekend","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/2022\/04\/09\/sonic-2-movie-speeding-towards-65-million-in-its-us-opening-weekend\/","title":{"rendered":"Sonic 2 Movie Speeding Towards $65 Million In Its US Opening Weekend"},"content":{"rendered":"
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The Sonic the Hedgehog 2<\/em> movie has now officially been released in the US, and the opening weekend is currently on track to be bigger than the blue blur’s first film.<\/p>\n

According to Deadline, the Sonic 2 movie is currently racing towards a $60-$65 million opening across 4,234 theatres within the US. In contrast, the original 2020 film made $58 million across the first three days. Deadline provided some additional data:<\/p>\n

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“Sonic the Hedgehog 2<\/em>\u2018s Thursday was $5M, or 66%, higher than the original 2020 movie\u2019s $3M Thursday previews, which started at 5 p.m. That movie saw a $20.9M opening day, of which previews accounted for only 14%, and a $58M three-day and $70M four-day weekend before finaling at $148.9M. The movie\u2019s legs were indeed impacted then by the onset of the pandemic and exhibition closing nationwide.”<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Compared to other movies, Sonic has run rings around Michael Bay’s new action movie Ambulance<\/em> with an estimated $7.25 million opening, the comedy-adventure Lost City – opening to $30.4 million and Sony’s Morbius which is currently in its second weekend and has made $56.1 million locally.<\/p>\n