The first official data places the adaptation of the SEGA hedgehog above the Oscar winner for Best Film. Best premiere of the week.
Sonic, The Movie has closed its first weekend as a box office leader in Spain. The movie theaters, which were a significant boost in the interest deposited in Parasites after winning the Oscar for Best Film only a few days before, have left both the record collection in a single weekend in the United States for a video game movie like the number one in cinemas in Spain in the week of February 10 to 16.
Leader of the week: Sonic is the most watched movie in Spain (February 10-16)
Because Sonic, The Movie has not only debuted as a leader in its premiere, but, with the computed data of that weekend it has been enough to be the film with the highest collection in our country of the whole week, according to data reported by Comscore Movies .
The film, based on the popular SEGA character, Sonic the Hedgehog, has garnered criticism of all kinds; by specialized critics, generally negative, but that has not been an obstacle so that the production of Paramount Pictures – with a budget of 87 million dollars – is already profitable by loosely exceeding 100 million dollars in collection … and in only a weekend.
The delay that the film experienced at the end of 2019 to not compromise respect for the original license and make a redesign in the figure of the hedgehog has made the film, directed by Jeff Fowler, an international success regardless of press criticism and users
In the absence of knowing if we will have more Sonic film adaptations on the big screen with this CGI style, from FreeGameTips we have made several parallel articles to celebrate this premiere; from the other SEGA adaptations to the cinema through all those of Sonic himself both on television and through OVAS. If you have not yet seen the movie or left before you finished watching the credits, here we tell you if there is a post-credit scene.
Also, the debate is back on the table: what are the best video games in the history of Sonic? In this article we choose the top 10.
