{"id":11871,"date":"2020-02-18T11:14:00","date_gmt":"2020-02-18T19:14:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/atomtickets.com\/movie-news\/?p=11871"},"modified":"2020-02-21T14:18:06","modified_gmt":"2020-02-21T22:18:06","slug":"box-office-insider-sonic-runs-rings-around-the-competition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/atomtickets.com\/movie-news\/box-office-insider-sonic-runs-rings-around-the-competition\/","title":{"rendered":"Box Office Insider: \u2018Sonic\u2019 Runs Rings Around The Competition"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Each week on <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Atom Insider<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, we break down the box office numbers for all of the biggest films opening in theaters. This week,<\/span> <span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">video game movies (and Paramount) scored a new life in <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Sonic the Hedgehog<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, which turned out to be an unlikely valentine for most audiences. Perhaps we can thank <a href=\"https:\/\/atomtickets.com\/movie-news\/sonic-the-hedgehog-director-making-changes\">the last-minute makeover<\/a>?\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<h2><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">This Week\u2019s Top Earner\u00a0 \u2013 \u2018Sonic The Hedgehog\u2019<\/span><\/h2>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1080\" height=\"810\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/O57D5Ez5ocI?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">We were expecting somewhere between $40-45 million for the blue hedgehog\u2019s opening weekend, but the film fittingly zoomed past those estimates to earn $58 million domestically in over 4,100 theaters, with even more still coming out of the four-day weekend thanks in part to <a href=\"https:\/\/atomtickets.com\/movie-news\/sonic-the-hedgehog-review\/\">surprisingly strong reviews<\/a>. Worldwide, <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.atomtickets.com\/movies\/sonic-the-hedgehog\/242898\">Sonic the Hedgehog<\/a>\u00a0<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">has already made $111 million, which is looking good against its estimated production budget of just $95 million. Looks like this film might also be fast when it comes to securing a sequel.<\/span><\/p>\n<h2><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Rounding Out The Rest Of The Box Office<\/span><\/h2>\n<p><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Birds of Prey <\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">landed at #2 on the charts, only dropping 48.2% in its second week, which is pretty good for a comic book movie. But it\u2019s still underperforming overall for the genre at this point in its run, making just $17.1 million in over 4,200 theaters. Thanks to a name change for marketing purposes and solid word of mouth, however, <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Birds of Prey <\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">will <a href=\"https:\/\/atomtickets.com\/movie-news\/box-office-insider-birds-of-prey-flies-under-the-radar\/\">likely keep pushing its total box office to profitable levels<\/a> throughout the rest of the blockbuster-lacking month, as it now stands at $145.2 million worldwide.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Two of the other wide releases of the weekend were neck-and-neck at #3 and #4, with the horror film <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Fantasy Island <\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">(Sony) just barely edging out the romantic drama <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Photograph <\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">(Universal) with $12.4 million versus $12.2 million. Both films have low budgets, so they\u2019ll likely prove to be modest hits with decent holds over the next few weeks, assuming audiences ignore the low ratings from critics for <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Fantasy Island <\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">in particular.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The fourth wide release of the week was <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Downhill<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> (Searchlight), which lived up to its name by debuting at #10 with $4.6 million domestically, despite playing in over 2,300 theaters. The snowy comedy remake of <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Force Majeure <\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">clearly didn\u2019t click with audiences or critics, and because we\u2019re not sure yet how much the film cost, it\u2019s hard to call this one an outright flop for now.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Looking at the rest of the Top 10, <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Bad Boys for Life<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> (Sony)<\/span> <span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">and <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">1917 <\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">(Universal) predictably dropped just three spots each to make way for most of the new wide releases, but they\u2019re both holding pretty well for films that have been out in theaters for 5-8 weeks. <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Dolittle <\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">(Universal) couldn\u2019t quite hold on, however, as it dropped five spots to #9. It lost ground to <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Jumanji: The Next Level <\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">(Sony), which only dropped two spots and actually made more this week than last week, still making over $5 million domestically after 10 weeks of release.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Thanks to an Oscars boost, the Best Picture winner, <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Parasite <\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">(Neon), jumped to #7 over the weekend after expanding its theater count to over 2,000. It\u2019s now been playing in theaters for a staggering 19 weeks now, and it\u2019s made over $175.2 million worldwide against a reported budget of just $11 million. This probably means a lot more people in the states are about to try cooking ram-don for the first time.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<h2><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">And They\u2019re Out<\/span><\/h2>\n<p><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Gentlemen <\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">(STX) bowed out this week after dropping five spots to #11 and losing 755 theaters. The Guy Ritchie gangster film has made $65.1 million worldwide against an estimated $22 million budget. Not bad, but certainly nowhere close to Ritchie\u2019s box office success last year with <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Aladdin<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Knives Out <\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">(Lionsgate) fell back off the Top 10 after a brief reappearance, dropping two spots to #12, which is fitting because it\u2019s been playing in theaters for 12 weeks. We probably won\u2019t see this one returning to the scene of the charts again.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Little Women <\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">(Sony) is finishing a great eight-week run with $191.1 million worldwide against a reported budget of just $40 million. The film dropped five spots to #13 after losing 770 theaters.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Gretel &amp; Hansel <\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">(United Artists) fell seven spots to #14 after just three weeks at the box office, grossing $17.3 million worldwide. Of course, that\u2019s more than enough to cover its low production budget of about $5 million.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">And last we have <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker <\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">(Disney), which fell six spots to #15 after losing 754 theaters. It\u2019s been out for nine weeks and will go down as the lowest-grossing <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Star Wars <\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">film of the new trilogy with $1.066 billion. That\u2019s about $255 million less than <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Star Wars: The Last Jedi<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> and a full billion dollars less than <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Star Wars: The Force Awakens<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">. Not exactly the high note they were probably hoping to end on with the Skywalker Saga.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">That\u2019s it for this weekend. Check back with Atom Insider next week as we recap all the newest releases vying for the top of the box office.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Each week on Atom Insider, we break down the box office numbers for all of the biggest films opening in theaters. This week, video game movies (and Paramount) scored a new life in Sonic the Hedgehog, which turned out to be an unlikely valentine for most audiences. Perhaps we can thank the last-minute makeover?\u00a0 This [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":11872,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[74],"tags":[37,46],"class_list":["post-11871","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-box-office","tag-news","tag-newspage"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/atomtickets.com\/movie-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11871","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/atomtickets.com\/movie-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/atomtickets.com\/movie-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atomtickets.com\/movie-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atomtickets.com\/movie-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11871"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/atomtickets.com\/movie-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11871\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11924,"href":"https:\/\/atomtickets.com\/movie-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11871\/revisions\/11924"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atomtickets.com\/movie-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11872"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/atomtickets.com\/movie-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11871"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atomtickets.com\/movie-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11871"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atomtickets.com\/movie-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11871"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}