Paramount’s surprisingly record-breaking “Sonic The Hedgehog” held on for a second straight week atop the box-office as it beat out 20th Century’s newcomer “The Call of the Wild”.
Pulling in $26.3M domestically, the film is closing in on becoming the third highest-grossing video game adaptation of all time, sitting at $106M. Internationally the film starring Ben Schwartz and James Marsden pulled in a strong $38.3M, lofting its overall global standing to over $200M.
Nudged into second is 20th Century’s new release “The Call of the Wild”. The adventure flick starring the legendary Harrison Ford managed around $25M for its three-day debut, and around $15M internationally. Figures that many expected but that the studio will not especially like, given the films rumored $135M budget.
Nudged into third is Warner Bros’ “Birds of Prey” which garnered around $7M in its third weekend, whilst also adding a further $10M overseas. The Margot Robbie starring ball of fun is now at around $173.3M worldwide.
In fourth place surprisingly is STX’s own newcomer, horror sequel “Brahms: The Boy 2” which gathered just shy of $6M domestic and added $2.2M from over 20 overseas markets.
The reason it’s surprising is it managed out bump down Sony’s all-conquering sequel “Bad Boys for Life”, which brought home $5.86M to lift its domestic total to only $10M shy of becoming the first $200M domestic grosser of the year. Few would have predicted that at the start of this new decade. Internationally the film added $8M to push its overall total to nearly $400M worldwide ($390M). Few have predicted this also.
Elsewhere this week, trutv’s “Impractical Jokers: The Movie” based on their hit show performed excellently in limited release, taking $2.2M from just over 350 locations. Leading to the film gaining an expanded release next week, whilst Lionsgate’s “Las Pildoras De Mi Novio” took around $1.4M from a similar number of theatres.
Finally, Focus Features Jane Austin adaptation “Emma” starring Anya Taylor-Joy, took just shy of 250K from only five locations, whilst its overseas tally continues to creep up, now sitting at $8.5M.
Next week sees Universal return to the horror genre with their take on “The Invisible Man”. The Leigh Whannell directed and Elizabeth Moss starring thriller will have studio execs hoping the film can do similar business to the studio’s last horror released around this time of year, Jordan Peele’s “Us” which debuted to an excellent $71M. Though that figure might be a stretch too far, Universal will certainly hope to not be disappointed come this time next week.
Sonic the Hedgehog – $26.3M ($107M Overall)
The Call of the Wild – $24.8M
Birds of Prey – $7M ($72.5M)
Brahms: The Boy II – $5.9M
Bad Boys for Life – $5.86M ($191M)
1917 – $4.4M ($152M)
Fantasy Island – $4.2M ($20M)
Parasite – $3.1M ($49M)
Jumanji: The Next Level – $3M ($311M)
The Photograph – $2.8M ($17.6M)