The pre-summer semi-blockbuster season is well underway, with the past two weekends being the first time in 2022 we have had two 30+ million (or even two 20+ million) openings in a row.
This weekend will keep the streak going and up the stakes as Sonic-the-Hedgehog-2-2022-movie-posters/”>Sonic the Hedgehog 2 races into 4,232 theaters and is set to become one of the year’s top openers yet.
Add to that next weekend’s release of Fantastic Beasts: The Secrets of Dumbledore, which begins its international rollout this weekend, and it is clear we are in the midst of the strongest slate of films since last October.The new Sonic comes just over two years after the original Sonic the Hedgehog opened to 58 million in February 2020.
Its 149 million domestic and 320 million worldwide finishes were pretty solid for the 85 million budgeted franchise starter, especially when you consider that the breakout of the Covid-19 pandemic cut its run short.
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