'Sonic the Hedgehog 2' Sets New Record: Biggest Opening Ever for a Videogame Movie (engadget.com) 27
Sonic the Hedgehog 2 "shattered early box office projections," reports the Los Angeles Times, bringing in $71 million in its opening weekend. That makes it the biggest first-weekend for a Paramount movie in at least four years — more than Terminator: Dark Fate ($29 million) and Mission: Impossible — Fallout ($61.2 million).
You can watch its trailer here — but here's how the Times summarizes its plot. "The titular furry blue protagonist (voiced by Ben Schwartz) faces an equally fluffy new threat, Knuckles the Echidna (Idris Elba), who has joined Dr. Robotnik's (Jim Carrey) ongoing quest conquer Earth."
Engadget calls this the best opening weekend ever for a videogame movie. The previous record-holder was Sonic the Hedgehog 1, a movie which Paramount+ now "plans to expand into a cinematic universe" — or at least, expand into a spin-off TV series. Before the pandemic shut down theaters throughout the U.S, and other parts of the world, the first Sonic film went on to gross $319 million globally. Sonic the Hedgehog 2 is currently on track to beat those earnings having grossed approximately $141 million globally.
As with the first movie, timing appears to have been a significant factor in Sonic 2's early success. Its main competitor at the box office was Sony's much-maligned Morbius, which saw a drastic 74 percent drop in ticket sales from its opening weekend last Friday. It only earned $10.2 million in additional domestic revenue after a $39 million debut.
You can watch its trailer here — but here's how the Times summarizes its plot. "The titular furry blue protagonist (voiced by Ben Schwartz) faces an equally fluffy new threat, Knuckles the Echidna (Idris Elba), who has joined Dr. Robotnik's (Jim Carrey) ongoing quest conquer Earth."
Engadget calls this the best opening weekend ever for a videogame movie. The previous record-holder was Sonic the Hedgehog 1, a movie which Paramount+ now "plans to expand into a cinematic universe" — or at least, expand into a spin-off TV series. Before the pandemic shut down theaters throughout the U.S, and other parts of the world, the first Sonic film went on to gross $319 million globally. Sonic the Hedgehog 2 is currently on track to beat those earnings having grossed approximately $141 million globally.
As with the first movie, timing appears to have been a significant factor in Sonic 2's early success. Its main competitor at the box office was Sony's much-maligned Morbius, which saw a drastic 74 percent drop in ticket sales from its opening weekend last Friday. It only earned $10.2 million in additional domestic revenue after a $39 million debut.
Well, Jim Carrey is still gold (Score:2)
He never loses his edge, he literally lives his character, always an amazing experience to watch.
I loved the first movie, it was surprisingly good, totally expected otherwise, but not bad at all.
Fools gold (Score:3)
Jim Carey is as about funny as herpes. His rubber slapstick gurning act got old 20 years ago.
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Master Class in Listening to Fans (Score:3)
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Disrespecting the source material... Of soft porn like Charlie's Angels.... Or Sonic the Hedgehog... Okay.
Well, in this case they managed to make a movie that isn't actually terrible for adults, and which appeals to kids. Guaranteed money-maker, just ask Pixar.
Also, it doesn't have any girls in it, so nothing to complain about there.
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It doesn't matter how banal the material is, it has fans and if you piss them off they will weep and wail all over the social medias.
I don't get it. (Score:2)
In Sonic I, Marseden was perfect opposite what I can only assume was a tennis ball on a stick, the guy is making a career out of being variations of Prince Charming opposite CGI.
Jim Carrey made Robitnik fun to watch.
But in the end... it was just a more or less cookie-cutter kids' movie. It wasn't special, at all. The idea that the sequel is breaking records is slightly sad.
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We just watched it again yesterday. You're totally right. The movie is nothing special... or it wouldn't have been 20 years ago.
But now people are so disillusioned with Hollywood (do people comprehend the gravity of that statemant?) that even an average movie, one that doesn't piss on your childhood and mocks your intelligence, sees people flocking to it in droves like it was fucking Jurassic Park.
It's a matter of relativity. Most everything else is such utter crap that we're grasping for average movies li
Re: I don't get it. (Score:4, Interesting)
Yeah, the tribute to Ramis was on the mark. It was what the customers wanted, giving Sony a profit and potentially a new generation of characters for future efforts.
It's amazing what you can achieve when you don't dump your audience in the expectation of replacing them with an imagined audience of weirdos.
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> I am not ashamed to tell you that I literally cried during Ghostbusters: Afterlife.
I am not ashamed to tell you that I literally cried during Ghostbusters (2016)
Re: I don't get it. (Score:1)
HA!
I hope they haven't bitten off too much (Score:2)
Still open world Sonic the hedgehog sounds like a recipe for disaster...
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That has nothing to do with the movie. They're still introducing characters on-screen from the 1990s.
It absolutely has to do with the movie (Score:2)
Sega's not going to do a game tie in because modern games are too complex and they're not gonna risk either missing a release date or putting out (another) crap Sonic game. That's good, but I still question if they can pull together an open world game w/o making a mess
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How much do you think Sega is actually making off the movies? Paramount would like a word with them.
Humble opinion (Score:2)
If you liked the first one, this one is really good. Jim Carrey isn't someone I'd peg as Robotnik, the first one warmed me to the idea, this one seals it as he delivers his lines in a really good mixture of "you should take me serious, you shouldn't take me serious".
Well the first movie was incredibly good... (Score:3)
... particularly for a mock buster of an already established Hollywood movie, "Andy The Talking Hedgehog".
Somehow Paramount managed to turn the obvious disadvantages into points that make the movie more interesting. For example Paramount was not able to film with an actual hedgehog. You might think that this is a show stopper, but they filled the gap very creatively with a form of computed animation. Instead of the standard US actors "Tara Reid" and "Dean Cain" they used a lesser known actor who had critical successes in the 1990s named "Jim Carrey", and he's amazing in it.
Is that code for something? (Score:2, Informative)
Because I could swear you're talking about a thing that I'd expect on children's television, interspersed with ads for sweets and plastic toys. Blink twice if your preteen kids are holding you hostage.
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