Moreover, Sonic’s four-day estimate gives Paramount its best opening weekend since Mission: Impossible - Fallout from the summer of 2018. Sonic the Hedgehog also had been originally slated for a more competitive November 2019 launch - two weeks before Disney’s Frozen 2, which set an all-time record for highest gross by an animated film. A makeover not only made the main character more familiar and appealing, the delay put the film on a President’s Day weekend, combined with a Valentine’s Day Friday. The figures provide a surprise happy ending for Paramount around the time Detective Pikachu was premiering last spring, Sonic fans were in open revolt against the character’s original CGI design.
Sonic’s opening day estimate of $21 million on Friday likewise edges Detective Pikachu’s first-day take of $20.5 million on May 10, 2019. Though it did fairly well overseas, Tomb Raider fizzled in the US, where its 57 million gross wasn’t even half of what the 2001 movie made.
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Would 2018’s series reboot Tomb Raider alter that status. Every time I review a movie based on a video game, I note that in the US, 2001’s Lara Croft: Tomb Raider remains the box office champ. For the four-day weekend, THR is projecting a $68 million domestic haul for the Blue Blur. Reviewed by Colin Jacobson (June 10, 2018). Sonic’s $57 million figure is a three-day total, per The Hollywood Reporter. Sonic the Hedgehog set a record for best opening weekend by a video game movie, ringing up an estimated 57 million at domestic box offices to overtake last year’s Detective Pikachu at 54.3. Sonic the Hedgehog set a record for best opening weekend by a video game movie, ringing up an estimated $57 million at domestic box offices to overtake last year’s Detective Pikachu at $54.3 million.