Box Office: Sonic the Hedgehog Races Past the Competition

Sonic made a rather large BOOM! at the box office over this President's Day Weekend, racing past its initial predictions of $40-45 million to (b)ring in an estimated $57 million. Worldwide, it's brought in $100 million, making it the best showing of all time for a video game movie, according to Variety. With Monday being a holiday, Sonic is expected to pull in $68 million domestically. Warner Bros.' Birds of Prey took in a decent $17.1 million over the weekend, which was enough to land it in second place Monday is expected to bump the take to $19.6 million. [ignvideo url="https://www.ign.com/videos/2020/02/13/sonic-the-hedgehog-review"] Doing very well for themselves over the Valentine's Day/President's Day cluster were Blumhouse's Fantasy Island, which earned $12.4 million, and The Photograph, starring Issa Rae and LaKeith Stanfield, which grabbed $12.2 million. Both films cost very little to produce. [ignvideo url="https://www.ign.com/videos/2020/02/14/blumhouses-fantasy-island-review"]

North American Box Office Estimates

Bad Boys for Life and 1917 continued their strong showings in the Top 10 while Bong Joon-ho's Parasite received a nice box office bump following its history-making Oscar win for Best Picture. Will Ferrell and Julia Louis-Dreyfus' Downhill debuted to a disappointing $4.6 million. Here are the Top 10 North American box office estimates for the (2-day) weekend (via Box Office Mojo)

• 1. Sonic the Hedgehog $57,000,000
• 2. Birds of Prey $17,115,000
• 3. Fantasy Island $12,400,000
• 4. The Photograph $12,270,000
• 5. Bad Boys for Life $11,305,000
• 6. 1917 $8,090,000
• 7. Jumanji: The Next Level $5,700,000
• 8. Parasite $5,500,500
• 9. Dolittle $5,050,000
• 10 Downhill $4,671,000

[ignvideo url="https://www.ign.com/videos/2020/02/15/sonic-responds-to-ign-comments"] [poilib element="accentDivider"] Matt Fowler is a writer for IGN and a member of the Television Critics Association. Follow him on Twitter at @TheMattFowler and Facebook at Facebook.com/MattBFowler.

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