Box Office: ‘Sonic the Hedgehog’ Speeding to $65 Million Opening Weekend

Sonic the Hedgehog” is speeding to a $65 million opening at the North American box office this President’s Day weekend, according to estimates.Paramount’s action-adventure, based on the Sega video game character, had been pegged to generate $40-45 million prior to its launch.

Should estimates hold, it could break the $54 million record set last year by “Detective Pikachu” for the best three-day domestic opening for a video-game movieOpening at 4,130 location, the film received an A CinemaScore from first-day audiences.

The live-action and CGI hybrid follows the world’s fastest hedgehog teaming up with his new best friend Tom Wachowski (James Marsden) to defend the planet from the evil Dr.

Robotnik (Jim Carrey).

Reviews have been mostly positive, generating a 64 percent on Rotten Tomatoes.Originally slated to premiere on Nov.

8, 2019, the film suffered a brutal fan backlash over the design of Sonic, prompting Paramount and director Jeff Fowler to

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