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TheSonicmovie series has seemingly surpassed $1 billion at the global box office, with the success ofSonic the Hedgehog 3helping it reach this milestone. This comes while Sonic 3 is still in cinemas, so we can expect this figure to rise even further.
While the studio is yet to confirm this, this comes from adding up the total reported box office takings of all three Sonic films. If accurate, this means that the Sonic series has comfortably surpassed the $1 billion mark, putting it in a much better place than many of us would have expected when the first film was revealed.
The Sonic Movie Series Appears To Have Pulled In $1 Billion
We’ve come a long way since ugly Sonic
This achievement was highlighted by Reddit user LawNo3961 in r/boxoffice. If this is true, we can likely expect Sega and Paramount to celebrate this success, but for now, it looks like the series is in an incredibly good place.
Here’s the reported box office takings for each film, according toBox Office Mojo:
That gives us a total of around $1,004,000,000. We’ll have to wait and see where it lands once the dust has settled, particularly once the film is released digitally on January 21.
Of course, even taking into account that Sonic 3 is still in cinemas, there’s a noticeable dip in its takings so far. This tracks withreportsthat its box office performance is slower than that of Sonic the Hedgehog 2, but it’s also still performing well,holding its own against Disney’s Mufasa: The Lion King.
Whatever the case, the Sonic series is in an incredibly good place going forward.A fourth film was confirmed ahead of Sonic 3’s opening in late December, anda post-credit sceneteased some characters who will likely appear in this sequel. We’ll have to wait and see if we get another spin-off show too, like the Knuckles series that came to Paramount Plus.
Sonic the Hedgehog 3
Cast
Sonic the Hedgehog 3 continues the adventures of Sonic, Tails, and Knuckles, and teases the introduction of Shadow the Hedgehog.
