{"id":124599,"date":"2022-05-06T02:25:00","date_gmt":"2022-05-06T02:25:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/#article-131096"},"modified":"2022-05-06T02:25:00","modified_gmt":"2022-05-06T02:25:00","slug":"sonic-the-hedgehog-2-speeds-past-original-movie-at-the-global-box-office","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/2022\/05\/06\/sonic-the-hedgehog-2-speeds-past-original-movie-at-the-global-box-office\/","title":{"rendered":"Sonic The Hedgehog 2 Speeds Past Original Movie At The Global Box Office"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"media_block\"><a href=\"https:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/205d06f07fd8c\/large.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/205d06f07fd8c\/small.jpg\" class=\"media_thumbnail\"><\/a><\/div>\n<figure class=\"picture ptris\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/205d06f07fd8c\/sonic-2.900x.jpg\" width=\"900\" height=\"506\" alt=\"Sonic 2\"><figcaption class=\"caption\"><em class=\"credit\">Image: Paramount Pictures, SEGA<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Sega Corporation has today announced <em>Sonic the Hedgehog 2<\/em> has now surpassed global box office sales of $331.64 million &#8211; speeding past the $319.71 million sales record set by the original film in 2020.<\/p>\n<p>It follows on from the movie experiencing the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/news\/2022\/04\/sonic-the-hedgehog-2-is-the-biggest-video-game-movie-ever\">biggest opening for a video game movie ever<\/a> &#8211; grossing $72.1 million in the US within the first three days. The original banked $58.01 million in the same time frame. The film&#8217;s US box office gross has reached $162.74 million, surpassing the previous film&#8217;s $148.97 million.<\/p>\n<p>Outside of this location, Sonic&#8217;s second movie has debuted across 47 different markets in the top spot. It&#8217;s not done yet, either &#8211; with a Japan release of the movie due out this August. Have you been to the cinema to see Sonic the Hedgehog 2 yet? <em>Leave a comment down below.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Image: Paramount Pictures, SEGA Sega Corporation has today announced Sonic the Hedgehog 2 has now surpassed global box office sales of $331.64 million &#8211; speeding past the $319.71 million sales record set by the original film in 2020. It follows on from the movie experiencing the biggest opening for a video game movie ever &#8211; [&hellip;]<\/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-124599","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nintendo-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/124599","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=124599"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/124599\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=124599"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=124599"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=124599"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}