Sonic the film makes a supersonic start and makes history

Paramount wants its mega franchise at MCU / DCEU. She bet on the blue hedgehog Sonic to launch her extended Sega universe and apparently it works.

After the bad scores of its last big releases, Gemini Man or Terminator: Dark Fate (we talk about it HERE and THERE in detail), the Paramount was not in top form. But Sonic the film runs fast and it could well partly make up for these failures. In any case, this is what her American opening weekend suggests. A historic weekend for films adapted from video games.

Indeed, while the Sonic film cost 87 million to produce, excluding marketing costs, it quickly reached 55 million dollars on Friday, recording 64 million at the domestic box office on Saturday 15 February. According to Deadline and Boxofficemojo, the last figures recorded this Sunday 16 would even amount to $ 68 million.

In the world things are a little different but no less auspicious. With 43 million dollars raised abroad, the hedgehog of Sega Paramout version has already passed the milestone of 100 million dollars collected in the world. Even if the studios recover less from the international box office than from the domestic, it is already a very good sum that they can boast of having earned.