We know Sonic goes fast – he is, after all, a blue spikey blur of a hedgehog more often than not. But now, he has sped past one of his most impressive milestones yet and made Paramount a cool $400m at the box office.
The film is currently the eighth-biggest film launch worldwide this year, but, as Deadline reports, this place is likely to jump up a few notches with the film still to release in both Hong Kong and Japan.
These numbers are a pretty impressive sight, but perhaps not unexpected. After all, Sonic 2 reportedly enjoyed the greatest opening weekend for any video-game based movie ever on its release in April.
In fact, the sequel clocked up an impressive $71m (or £54.4m) in just a few days. To give these numbers a bit more context, the first Sonic the Hedgehog movie grossed $58m (£44m) on its opening weekend.
This made it Jim Carrey’s (aka Dr Robotnik) biggest domestic opener ever, eclipsing even 2003’s Godly comedy Bruce Almighty. It also became Paramount’s fifth number-one movie of the pandemic on its release, so all round a pretty good showing for the spikey one.