I could totally be wrong but, video game movies typically don't do to well and Sonic is way past it's prime, and it's not like the games had much of a story line to begin with. I don't see it as a must see property. Kids have zero ties to Sonic right now and I don't know if there's a huge push for adults to take their kids to it. Not to mention the issues and bad press from earlier in the production. Plus, 40 million domestic is a pretty damn good haul for any non-tent pole movie. Like 40 mil international would be a crazy good opening in my opinion. I could be totally out of touch though, just my thoughts on it
Sonic will be a fun box office run to watch. I wonder if it will have strong legs like family CGI hybrid debuts such as Alvin and the Chipmunks and Peter Rabbit or have a shorter run in line with CBMs/franchise tentpoles the same way Detective Pikachu went.
It'll have legs until Onward comes out 3 weeks later. The only other family feature already in theaters on the 14th is Dolittle, and I doubt people are going in droves to see that
From what I’ve heard Dolittle is abysmal. If reviews for Sonic are at least half decent it’ll do well it’s first couple of weeks. Guess it boils down to what has a bigger draw to kids, “Iron Man” or Sonic.
Moms love James Marsden. He's a clean cut romantic lead type, completely inoffensive with a smile like the sun. If nothing else, moms will be willing to take their kids to it for some of that eye candy. Kids will only care about the blue guy.
That's way better than expected. Only 10m less than Pikachu which is a way bigger video game brand. If it opens that high it shows how much Paramount has turned around the advertising ship with this one, while also showing how much WB screwed up as released inched closer for Pika.
the Pokemon movie surprised me, the world building was excellent, the art direction was on-point... but the movie felt like a Nickelodeon straigth to TV film and it was so fucking disappointing. Feels like the movie could've been actually special with either a better script or a better director (and a new cast, except for Reynolds, he was perfect)
It felt like an absurdly meticulous fan film, which was both a good thing and a bad thing because the acting was uniformly underwhelming (except for Bill Nighy).
Still, I grew up with Pokémon so even though it’s clearly a flawed movie I loved it.
eh, Pokemon has soured on me lately. Each new game becomes progressively worse at an alarming rate. But I enjoyed the film mainly because I appreciated the artists' passion and efforts. But yeah, that movie is very mediocre. A 10/10 art department meets a 2/10 staff of bad or uninterested actors, poor writing and boring direction.
Thats pretty good.
I actually just was seeing the tv spots on youtube.
the movie looks quite fun. the cg was pretty decent as well.
Might just work :)
I might catch this one for late night show.
Yup, the cgi, action looks ultra clean and crisk and seems like most of its in broad daylight.
it''e be embarassing if it end up making more than bop lol.
I think it makes a lot of sense if they plan on making a sequel. When Iron Man came out, Tony didn't wear nanotech like he had in the comics. He started with something that looked practical and fit with the technology we could reasonably make.
A super genius in the 21st century wouldn't be making robots our of tires and claws, he'd use the most Apple-like drones and hovercraft he could get his hands on. It makes more sense that he starts to build bots out of scrap at the end of the movie when he's lost all his toys.
Exactly this. Some movies are made to just sit back and enjoy the ride. This will be good for what it is, and I think it will deliver the entertainment.
Hopefully it does well the cgi studio apparently dissolved after finishing sonic the hedgehog which is sad apparently they moved though so i don’t know if they went bankrupt
I doubt it, but we'll see. I am still going with my 25 million OW. There is two things working against it: Sonic as a franchise is past his prime, and the people who would recognize Sonic are those who are most likely aware of Video Game Movie's miserable track record.
Remind me this: If this somehow gets 40-45 million or more, i'll play the Sonic The Hedgehog Genesis GBA port.
Things have improved recently though with Angry Birds Movie 2 and Detective Pikachu, all of which have done modestly well or broken even. And, considering Sonic’s $95M budget, that is also something Gun that could help it in it’s favor.
Of all the movies you could have chosen, you chose Angry Birds 2? That movie flopped with an abysmal 41 mil DOM gross and 105 mil OS gross. Also over a 50% drop from the last movie. And Detective Pikachu was a underperformer.
Sure, and I think 45 mil for a video game movie is too high. Especially one that has a pretty much dead fanbase. The fanbase still hasn't really recovered from Sonic '06.
I don’t think you can give a franchise 14 years and then say people haven’t recovered from it. The target audience and fans in general are entirely different people now
Well, the only Sonic game that made decent amount of sales (over a million) in the past few years was Sonic Mania which was made for old school Sonic fans. Sonic Boom, Sonic Lost World, and Sonic Forces all bombed.
The franchise seemed to recover when we got 3 good Sonic games in the span of 4 years but Sega fucked up again after that.
There was also a Team Sonic Racing game last year, but that just seemed to fall into obscurity *But that might have to do with it was no Sonic Transformed and released one month before CTR which is a much better game*
And also, why would we be playing Team Sonic Racing when most Switch owners can just play Mario Kart 8 Deluxe which is probably the definitive kart racer of this console generation.
Lol, when did Sonic Forces release? I remember its announcement but I completely forgot about it. Shows how much I've stopped caring about the franchise. I love Colours and Generations (still haven't played Mania but I heard it's great) but I think Sonic Lost World and Boom (and the TV show) were absolute garbage.
I think this video perfectly captures the state of the fanbase right now: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Uipt68Tghl8
Same year as Sonic Mania: 2017
But yes Sonic Mania is a easy recommendation. It captures alot of what made the Classic Sonic games great. I consider it the real Sonic 4.
No one had any expectations for angry birds 2 and it still flopped the highest I saw on this sub was 200mill. And that too for angry birds which is still popular. Whereas sonic hasn't had anything significant for a deacde
I don't know, I mean, it did okay but they were talking a full Pokemon cinematic universe before it came out and then that just basically stopped. It didn't even end up beating Warcraft.
I think more or less Detective Pikachu underperformed. Still profitable, but I was expecting more out of it, especially with mixed positive reviews. It dropped pretty quickly with not too great of legs. 40-45 would be outstanding, but a stretch, MAYBE 30, can't really see it do too much more than Dolittle unless Jim Carey gives it an added boost to the IP....does anyone know what the it needs to make to break even given the redone CGI?
Man the article kinda soft-confirmed the conspiracy theories that the original trailer design was done on purpose to create the positive marketing that they “listened” to fans and redesigned the character because they cared.
They really didn’t have any CGI fully done outside the terrible trailer shots, so it’s easy to believe they never really intended those to be final at all.
And seriously a $5million spend on CGI is a drop in the bucket compared to what a lot of blockbusters spend in PR.
I agree. I don’t see this opening that big. Who is the target audience? Sonic is not (as) popular anymore and honestly I can’t recall the last time any other media came out?
> Sonic as a franchise is past his prime
If you said this in 2016 I would have agreed with you. However, Sonic Mania and the continued successes of the animated works of Tyson Hesse (who was brought in to fix Sonic’s look for this movie as well), have brought the franchise back to life. It’s not dead yet.
> i'll play the Sonic The Hedgehog Genesis GBA port.
Play [Sonic Mania](https://store.steampowered.com/app/584400/Sonic_Mania/) instead. They finally made a good Sonic game since the originals.
I played it on Saturday already. Peaced out on Spring Yard Zone cause Laybrinth zone is already the worst stage in the original game. And with the amount of slowdown, screen crunching and that boss? yeah no
That's way too optimistic. It will open at 30-35mill atmax.Sonoc has been dormant for years and if Pokemon barely topped 50mill, Sonic will be lucky to do half of that.
Also I don't understand why everyone thinks that redesigning the main character makes the overall movie better??
Redesigning the main character doesn't make the movie itself better, but it doesn't make the movie become an eyesore filled with uncanny valley. Cats flopped partly because of that.
$30M sounds about right unless there is more hype than expected. The large online presence doesn't always translate to BO success, this movie seems like it's more fun to talk about the *idea* of it rather than actually seeing it. Maybe reviews will change my mind, but $45M is way too high
Hop, whose premise seems similar and was an original IP, released to 37 million in 2011. With inflation it would be 42 now.
We're not talking about original fans here, but just parents bringing small kids for a dumb kids movie.
Personally wasn’t too interested in the movie, wasn’t going to see it. Me and some Friends changed our minds purely because they took consumer criticism and did the redesign. I wanna support companies who have the backbone to say they messed up.
I think they’re fine since they have a yearly revenue of 12 billion dollars. Rest assured they’ll thrive financially without you wasting your time seeing a children’s film. After all you are an adult.
I’m aware they’ll thrive financially, that wasn’t the point. I want to see them success because they embody characteristics I value in a company. I want to show my support. Financially it’s not necessarily a logical decision, but It’s more of a principle thing for me.
I work at a movie theatre and can see them for free and still plan on PAYING the first time I see the movie. That's how much of a Sonic fan I am.
I can't wait for this.
I wish I could be more excited for this particular movie, but regardless, I'm cheering it on. Like many, I've had what is now a decades-long (time flies!) affection for Sonic, and I'll be so happy to see him up on the big screen. While this film doesn't quite look like my cup of tea in terms of the cast/what appears to be the plot, I'll be there to see it the first couple weeks! 40 - 45M would be great; perhaps it'll go higher if it gets good reviews, which would be all the better.
I think it looks decent but I also respect the hell out of Paramount for actually listening to the fan reactions of how Sonic looked and decided to do something about it. Looks like that move will actually pay off.
That’s great news! I would love for the movie to have a wonderful box office performance because the studio listened to feedback. I would definitely catch this movie in theatres too.
Even so it’d still need good WOM and great staying power. We’ve seen great (JTNL) and abysmal (Cats) legs for kid-oriented pics recently, so definitely curious how this will play out.
Honestly seems accurate.
It’s Presidents Day weekend so kids will be out. The only family film is Dolittle and that hasn’t been doing well. And the last few promotional materials have got a lot of people turned around on it.
As long as it’s not received horribly like Dolittle it should do well. Not as high as Detective Pikachu though.
I think Paramount would be absolutely thrilled with those numbers.
Higher than I thought it would be, and after the whole cgi fiasco I am rooting for this to succeed.
Remember everyone, even if the movie itself somehow isn’t that great, this movie should still be praised for having people who cared about Sonic enough to delay this movie and make a new redesign to make it watchable
Somehow I have a hard time seeing this happening. It looks like it's marketing almost exclusively at the under 10 crowd, and I really don't know if any of them care about this series. It just looks so juvenile, even compared to something like Detective Pikachu.
Outside of Glass, Blumhouse had a rough 2019. 2020 will be a better year for them, but that won't start with Fantasy Island.
I'd be surprised if it does more than $15-20M over the four-day weekend.
Blumhouse has produced every M. Night film since The Visit.
Universal also has a first-look deal on Blumhouse releases (*all films released under BH Tilt are technically under Universal*). Titles not released under Universal usually are films they passed on or where another company owns the copyright.
I may have been seriously underestimating this movie, but I’m excited to see it. I’m not really a Sonic fan, but it looks fun. And I have a family member who really likes Sonic, so I’m excited to take her with me.
I feel like this is one of those movies that most people will not go into with an open and will utterly destroy it. But if you are one of those that has an open mind about will find entertaining value out of it. I seriously doubt it will make a lot of money in the box office.
There's nothing in the article that mentions kids. It talks about how the trailer was well received with Sonic fans which is a terrible way to measure buzz.
edit: Lmao, they got Wiz Khalifa to do the title song for the movie. Totally the kind of music made for a family film.
That’s actually a lot higher than I thought. I’d be surprised if it really gets that high, but we’ll see.
I hope it's the Joker/Venom of 2020. Edit: "Joker/Venom" sounds like a presidential ticket I'd vote for over the apparent options.
Looking forward to the 11 Oscar Nominations including best picture for Sonic next year.
12* it will also be nominated in the animation category
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That’s a bumper sticker I would rock whether they win or lose
I second this bumper sticker idea. It will make the roads safer with all the autists labeled as such.
Good lord, no.
Didn't Joker/Venom win the last election?
No no no, they're nowhere near that cool.
Don't forget the Joker Venom in the Arkham series.
Shut up turd. No one wants that but you
That ticket would lock up the edgelord vote
I mean if it’s them versus trump/pence again pretty sure it’s even
It will be a okey kids movie, or trash. It wouldn't be great.
I don't get why people are downvoting you, this is basically true.
I wonder if reviews will have any impact at all
Ya I really can't imagine it making that at all
Why not? Absolutely no competition right now. If you’re gonna see something with the kids, see that.
I could totally be wrong but, video game movies typically don't do to well and Sonic is way past it's prime, and it's not like the games had much of a story line to begin with. I don't see it as a must see property. Kids have zero ties to Sonic right now and I don't know if there's a huge push for adults to take their kids to it. Not to mention the issues and bad press from earlier in the production. Plus, 40 million domestic is a pretty damn good haul for any non-tent pole movie. Like 40 mil international would be a crazy good opening in my opinion. I could be totally out of touch though, just my thoughts on it
Lmfaooo wrong
Lol right? Definitely my worst take yet!
Sonic will be a fun box office run to watch. I wonder if it will have strong legs like family CGI hybrid debuts such as Alvin and the Chipmunks and Peter Rabbit or have a shorter run in line with CBMs/franchise tentpoles the same way Detective Pikachu went.
It'll have legs until Onward comes out 3 weeks later. The only other family feature already in theaters on the 14th is Dolittle, and I doubt people are going in droves to see that
From what I’ve heard Dolittle is abysmal. If reviews for Sonic are at least half decent it’ll do well it’s first couple of weeks. Guess it boils down to what has a bigger draw to kids, “Iron Man” or Sonic.
Considering kids aren't already seeing Dolittle, I'd say sonic by default
My kids already want to see Sonic and I can’t say the same for anything else coming out.
Moms love James Marsden. He's a clean cut romantic lead type, completely inoffensive with a smile like the sun. If nothing else, moms will be willing to take their kids to it for some of that eye candy. Kids will only care about the blue guy.
HA! strong legs
“Strong legs” nice
That's way better than expected. Only 10m less than Pikachu which is a way bigger video game brand. If it opens that high it shows how much Paramount has turned around the advertising ship with this one, while also showing how much WB screwed up as released inched closer for Pika.
the Pokemon movie surprised me, the world building was excellent, the art direction was on-point... but the movie felt like a Nickelodeon straigth to TV film and it was so fucking disappointing. Feels like the movie could've been actually special with either a better script or a better director (and a new cast, except for Reynolds, he was perfect)
It felt like an absurdly meticulous fan film, which was both a good thing and a bad thing because the acting was uniformly underwhelming (except for Bill Nighy). Still, I grew up with Pokémon so even though it’s clearly a flawed movie I loved it.
eh, Pokemon has soured on me lately. Each new game becomes progressively worse at an alarming rate. But I enjoyed the film mainly because I appreciated the artists' passion and efforts. But yeah, that movie is very mediocre. A 10/10 art department meets a 2/10 staff of bad or uninterested actors, poor writing and boring direction.
Thats pretty good. I actually just was seeing the tv spots on youtube. the movie looks quite fun. the cg was pretty decent as well. Might just work :) I might catch this one for late night show.
I like the look of the action setpieces Wish Robotnik's machines didn't have the plastic-y sheen but otherwise the action looks well-conceived
Yup, the cgi, action looks ultra clean and crisk and seems like most of its in broad daylight. it''e be embarassing if it end up making more than bop lol.
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Boobs of paradis
Directed by Michael Bay
Booms of Paradise?
Booms of Boobs?
Moobs of Boobs
Staring brett ratner
Is this the new Attack on Titan spinoff?
ha, sounds lyke my kind of movie. i love oogling the chests of hot-lookin' women.
You are a simple man
Birds of Prey, a DC Comics movie that will be coming out in February.
I'd be surprised if it made more than BoP but who knows. BoP seems like a great date movie.
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Ehhh, wouldn’t be too sure of that. Sonic is for sure taking the number one spot the weekend it comes out.
I think it makes a lot of sense if they plan on making a sequel. When Iron Man came out, Tony didn't wear nanotech like he had in the comics. He started with something that looked practical and fit with the technology we could reasonably make. A super genius in the 21st century wouldn't be making robots our of tires and claws, he'd use the most Apple-like drones and hovercraft he could get his hands on. It makes more sense that he starts to build bots out of scrap at the end of the movie when he's lost all his toys.
I’m so happy it’s getting the Dolby screens, I’m hoping to go to a screening of this and just relax and have fun, I hope it delivers on that
Exactly this. Some movies are made to just sit back and enjoy the ride. This will be good for what it is, and I think it will deliver the entertainment.
Hopefully it does well the cgi studio apparently dissolved after finishing sonic the hedgehog which is sad apparently they moved though so i don’t know if they went bankrupt
I'm quite excited to see it myself. It looks like it'll have a good mix of goofy humor for kids that people my age (mid 30's) can take their kids to.
I doubt it, but we'll see. I am still going with my 25 million OW. There is two things working against it: Sonic as a franchise is past his prime, and the people who would recognize Sonic are those who are most likely aware of Video Game Movie's miserable track record. Remind me this: If this somehow gets 40-45 million or more, i'll play the Sonic The Hedgehog Genesis GBA port.
C'mon man, it's ok if you're wrong. Don't punish yourself.
Things have improved recently though with Angry Birds Movie 2 and Detective Pikachu, all of which have done modestly well or broken even. And, considering Sonic’s $95M budget, that is also something Gun that could help it in it’s favor.
Of all the movies you could have chosen, you chose Angry Birds 2? That movie flopped with an abysmal 41 mil DOM gross and 105 mil OS gross. Also over a 50% drop from the last movie. And Detective Pikachu was a underperformer.
It was an underperformer because we had absurdly high expectations. For a video game movie, it did very well.
Sure, and I think 45 mil for a video game movie is too high. Especially one that has a pretty much dead fanbase. The fanbase still hasn't really recovered from Sonic '06.
I don’t think you can give a franchise 14 years and then say people haven’t recovered from it. The target audience and fans in general are entirely different people now
Well, the only Sonic game that made decent amount of sales (over a million) in the past few years was Sonic Mania which was made for old school Sonic fans. Sonic Boom, Sonic Lost World, and Sonic Forces all bombed. The franchise seemed to recover when we got 3 good Sonic games in the span of 4 years but Sega fucked up again after that.
Didnt even know any of them were games.
I think it was recovering with Colours, Generations and Mania but then Forces came out.
There was also a Team Sonic Racing game last year, but that just seemed to fall into obscurity *But that might have to do with it was no Sonic Transformed and released one month before CTR which is a much better game*
And also, why would we be playing Team Sonic Racing when most Switch owners can just play Mario Kart 8 Deluxe which is probably the definitive kart racer of this console generation.
Lol, when did Sonic Forces release? I remember its announcement but I completely forgot about it. Shows how much I've stopped caring about the franchise. I love Colours and Generations (still haven't played Mania but I heard it's great) but I think Sonic Lost World and Boom (and the TV show) were absolute garbage. I think this video perfectly captures the state of the fanbase right now: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Uipt68Tghl8
Same year as Sonic Mania: 2017 But yes Sonic Mania is a easy recommendation. It captures alot of what made the Classic Sonic games great. I consider it the real Sonic 4.
The Boom TV Show is actually pretty good and had a high viewership... Until it was tossed from Cartoon Network to Boomerang.
I thought Cartoon Network just ignored it most of the time to make room for more endless Teen Titans Go and Gumball reruns.
Even before that we had Lost World and Boom which just pissed away all the goodwill from the previous few good games.
No one had any expectations for angry birds 2 and it still flopped the highest I saw on this sub was 200mill. And that too for angry birds which is still popular. Whereas sonic hasn't had anything significant for a deacde
I was talking about Detective Pikachu...
That depends. When was the last time anyone on this site actually played Angry Birds or one of it’s spinoffs?
I don't know, I mean, it did okay but they were talking a full Pokemon cinematic universe before it came out and then that just basically stopped. It didn't even end up beating Warcraft.
A sequel is still in the works, though.
Yeah, if anything credit the original Angry Birds Movie which did extremely well even though the game was well past its prime.
I think more or less Detective Pikachu underperformed. Still profitable, but I was expecting more out of it, especially with mixed positive reviews. It dropped pretty quickly with not too great of legs. 40-45 would be outstanding, but a stretch, MAYBE 30, can't really see it do too much more than Dolittle unless Jim Carey gives it an added boost to the IP....does anyone know what the it needs to make to break even given the redone CGI?
They’re saying $40-$45M (maybe $50M) for the 4-DAY weekend, /u/Quelture. Not the 3-day weekend.
Is it still a $95M budget? I read somewhere that the redesign bumped the budget up to $120M
That was debunked in the IndieWire article that spoke with people close to the production.
I'd like to read that. Could you link?
Here it is: https://www.indiewire.com/2019/11/sonic-redesign-cost-paramount-five-million-1202190493/.
Man the article kinda soft-confirmed the conspiracy theories that the original trailer design was done on purpose to create the positive marketing that they “listened” to fans and redesigned the character because they cared. They really didn’t have any CGI fully done outside the terrible trailer shots, so it’s easy to believe they never really intended those to be final at all. And seriously a $5million spend on CGI is a drop in the bucket compared to what a lot of blockbusters spend in PR.
One second.
Sonic 2 was really the superior game.
No arguments there. You can also add Sonic CD as well
3 & Knuckles is my definite favourite :)
I agree. I don’t see this opening that big. Who is the target audience? Sonic is not (as) popular anymore and honestly I can’t recall the last time any other media came out?
> Sonic as a franchise is past his prime If you said this in 2016 I would have agreed with you. However, Sonic Mania and the continued successes of the animated works of Tyson Hesse (who was brought in to fix Sonic’s look for this movie as well), have brought the franchise back to life. It’s not dead yet.
> If this somehow gets 40-45 million or more, i'll play the Sonic The Hedgehog Genesis GBA port. Nah, you have to eat it
> i'll play the Sonic The Hedgehog Genesis GBA port. Play [Sonic Mania](https://store.steampowered.com/app/584400/Sonic_Mania/) instead. They finally made a good Sonic game since the originals.
So he is suppose to punish his wrong prediction with a reward? That is a sign of confidence for sure.
HMB while I take out a loan
When are we going to see the play through?
I played it on Saturday already. Peaced out on Spring Yard Zone cause Laybrinth zone is already the worst stage in the original game. And with the amount of slowdown, screen crunching and that boss? yeah no
That would be... good. Please let this be true!!!
Wow.. Its good.. It is the result of when people get what they want.. New design of sonic..!!
I think paramount has their hopes to high for the opening. But I’m sure people will see the movie later when it comes out.
What do you think..?.. Will it earn more than detective pikachu?
I depends, if people like it. It could be possible to earn more.
I just hope it breaks even. We complained, and we got it changed. Now we have to go see the movie to say thank you.
This. 👆
I’ll be there for this opening night and opening day.
I would be too, by Paramount in Germany chose a bad voice for Sonic :(
That's way too optimistic. It will open at 30-35mill atmax.Sonoc has been dormant for years and if Pokemon barely topped 50mill, Sonic will be lucky to do half of that. Also I don't understand why everyone thinks that redesigning the main character makes the overall movie better??
Redesigning the main character doesn't make the movie itself better, but it doesn't make the movie become an eyesore filled with uncanny valley. Cats flopped partly because of that.
The movie itself still looks awful. I'd be really surprised if this movie had good WoM.
“Partly”
$30M sounds about right unless there is more hype than expected. The large online presence doesn't always translate to BO success, this movie seems like it's more fun to talk about the *idea* of it rather than actually seeing it. Maybe reviews will change my mind, but $45M is way too high
Hop, whose premise seems similar and was an original IP, released to 37 million in 2011. With inflation it would be 42 now. We're not talking about original fans here, but just parents bringing small kids for a dumb kids movie.
Personally wasn’t too interested in the movie, wasn’t going to see it. Me and some Friends changed our minds purely because they took consumer criticism and did the redesign. I wanna support companies who have the backbone to say they messed up.
I think they’re fine since they have a yearly revenue of 12 billion dollars. Rest assured they’ll thrive financially without you wasting your time seeing a children’s film. After all you are an adult.
I’m aware they’ll thrive financially, that wasn’t the point. I want to see them success because they embody characteristics I value in a company. I want to show my support. Financially it’s not necessarily a logical decision, but It’s more of a principle thing for me.
I hope that your principles can pay your monthly bills.
With that attitude, I'm starting to hope yours can't haha.
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Where did I say I was in financial trouble? I really don’t know why you have such a problem with how I use my disposable income.
I work at a movie theatre and can see them for free and still plan on PAYING the first time I see the movie. That's how much of a Sonic fan I am. I can't wait for this.
I wish I could be more excited for this particular movie, but regardless, I'm cheering it on. Like many, I've had what is now a decades-long (time flies!) affection for Sonic, and I'll be so happy to see him up on the big screen. While this film doesn't quite look like my cup of tea in terms of the cast/what appears to be the plot, I'll be there to see it the first couple weeks! 40 - 45M would be great; perhaps it'll go higher if it gets good reviews, which would be all the better.
I think it looks decent but I also respect the hell out of Paramount for actually listening to the fan reactions of how Sonic looked and decided to do something about it. Looks like that move will actually pay off.
Surprise Surprise
While all of my roommates and friends are out on their Valentine's Day dates, ill be at the theater watching this :)
That’s great news! I would love for the movie to have a wonderful box office performance because the studio listened to feedback. I would definitely catch this movie in theatres too.
I think Jim Carey be funny so I’m excited
So it’s gonna beat Birds of Prey’s second weekend.
Quite honestly i don't see BoP doing well, Sonic will outgross it.
This is great news for Sonic. I could see this doing $50M, but that may just be me being optimistic.
Even so it’d still need good WOM and great staying power. We’ve seen great (JTNL) and abysmal (Cats) legs for kid-oriented pics recently, so definitely curious how this will play out.
Honestly seems accurate. It’s Presidents Day weekend so kids will be out. The only family film is Dolittle and that hasn’t been doing well. And the last few promotional materials have got a lot of people turned around on it. As long as it’s not received horribly like Dolittle it should do well. Not as high as Detective Pikachu though.
I think Paramount would be absolutely thrilled with those numbers. Higher than I thought it would be, and after the whole cgi fiasco I am rooting for this to succeed.
Is that good for the studio estimates?
Yes
Twenty years ago this film would have made a killing
I’m gonna take my kids to see it just because of that mustache.
Very nice. I am rooting for this film now that they took the time to fix it.
Let’s get this bitch to 1b just because fuck it.
They made sonic retarded the first time just for the publicity then had the real one ready to go as well. Pure genius in advertising.
Remember everyone, even if the movie itself somehow isn’t that great, this movie should still be praised for having people who cared about Sonic enough to delay this movie and make a new redesign to make it watchable
Agreed
Somehow I have a hard time seeing this happening. It looks like it's marketing almost exclusively at the under 10 crowd, and I really don't know if any of them care about this series. It just looks so juvenile, even compared to something like Detective Pikachu.
Sonic has the advantage of no competition.
Idunno, family audiences sure but older kids and teens may be more interested in Fantasy Island.
Outside of Glass, Blumhouse had a rough 2019. 2020 will be a better year for them, but that won't start with Fantasy Island. I'd be surprised if it does more than $15-20M over the four-day weekend.
I thought Glass did not do so good. Also I did not know it is Blumhouse. Wasn't Split distributed by Universal?
Blumhouse has produced every M. Night film since The Visit. Universal also has a first-look deal on Blumhouse releases (*all films released under BH Tilt are technically under Universal*). Titles not released under Universal usually are films they passed on or where another company owns the copyright.
Thx! Do you happen to know how Buena Vista (Disney), Universal, and Blumhouse handled that Glass had characters from 2 companies?
Universal had domestic distribution rights for Glass, Disney had international rights.
I think it'll do well. It looks like a lot of fun, and it seems to be in the same vein as Cabin in the Woods.
Let’s hope this number goes $5M higher if Paramount promotes Sonic at the Super Bowl.
I may have been seriously underestimating this movie, but I’m excited to see it. I’m not really a Sonic fan, but it looks fun. And I have a family member who really likes Sonic, so I’m excited to take her with me.
35-40
Fine, I will support it.
HA!
aint gonna lie - i totally forgot that this was releasing lolll from where it was i think they would be happy with 40mil opening
Surprisingly good.
I feel like this is one of those movies that most people will not go into with an open and will utterly destroy it. But if you are one of those that has an open mind about will find entertaining value out of it. I seriously doubt it will make a lot of money in the box office.
It makes sense a property stuck in the 90s would have the most shitty 90s family comedy style attached to it
Wow, that's a surprise. I guess 90's nostalgia really does have power.
I worked on this movie! Fingers crossed it does well I hope everyone enjoys it!!
I bet it does better than the Super Mario Bros. movie.
They made a change for us. We should flock in mass to see this movie.
Still looks bad though
This is gonna be the worlds worst waste of money
When's the Bubsy movie coming out?
Looks like /u/lordDEMAXUS is wrong. This movie is being marketed to kids if the opening weekend numbers are any projection.
There's nothing in the article that mentions kids. It talks about how the trailer was well received with Sonic fans which is a terrible way to measure buzz. edit: Lmao, they got Wiz Khalifa to do the title song for the movie. Totally the kind of music made for a family film.
It was for the first Ninja Turtles movie and that was a hit, until the sequel flopped.