It wasn't a stunt. The redesign for Sonic added $5 million to the movie's budget and it had to give up a lucrative holiday release date to make it happen. There was merch created with the original design that was binned. In the movie itself the character of Longclaw clashes with the redesign as she a realistic rendered owl.
Even if international box office wasn't that big, Sonic is enough to spin off a sequel if they want to.
Wrong. Even if you correctly believe the current Sonic CGI re-design box office boost hype, that only means Sonic would have opened lower in November, been obliterated by Frozen II in weekend 2, have whatever earnings it could have cannibalized from Frozen forgotten by the time Star Wars and Jumanji opened, and then only be brought up along Xmas and New Year smartasses online talking about what CGI/has-been stars disasters have come up lately (Cats, Dolittle and Call of the Wild).
As a paying consumer who liked Sonic I'm glad it opened when it did. That means it was generally well received and only competes next weekend with Call of the Wild.
Yes, especially after the "Get woke, go broke" predictions about "Captain Marvel" and "The Last Jedi" and we saw how that turned out. More like, "Get woke, make a billion dollars".
Some would argue that we are talking about the MCU and Star Wars so, of course, those predictions were wrong. But there's no indication that a "woke' theme changes anything. Most people probably don't care one way or the other as long as they find a movie entertaining. I didn't like the Last Jedi but it had nothing to do with the "woke" themes which I didn't even particularly notice or think about as being "woke" since they were simply reasonable themes about equality and compassion.
Power with Girl is better.
Captain Marvel got the box office because it went between Avengers 3 and 4.
And it didn't really have much woke stuff while it's a bad movie.
Same thing for TLJ, I hate it but I don't think it has to do with woke, it actually focused too much on Kylo Ren.
Woke movie failed because they focused too much on delivering the message and not trying to make good movies. Also ppl don't want to be pushed for it, both genders.
https://www.boxofficepro.com/weekend...l-jokers-emma/
It looks like Sonic is going to take the Weekend but I am surprised at how well Call of the Wild is doing
Sonic The Hedgehog $28,000,000
The Call Of The Wild $27,500,000
Birds of Prey $7,500,000
Bad Boys For Life $5,900,000
Brahms: The Boy II $5,600,000
I guess you can never underestimate a family film
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Sonic The Hedgehog passed the $100M domestic mark after grossing an estimated $28 M this weekend. 10-Day total stands at $106.60M.
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Harrison Ford bonding with a dog can still draw a crowd, at least in North America. But it looks like it still cost way too much. Between it and Underwater last month, what concerns me is the perceived trend of Disney being burdened with a backlog of overspent projects (while waiting for the Avatar sequels and adapting mutants into the MCU themselves) possibly jeopardizing any potential projects even slightly unsafe commercially for them.
I can only hope New Mutants won't be ignored hard if the movie is any good, since it also carries Dark Phoenix's long delay stench but at least unlike Dark Phoenix and Fantastic Four movies New Mutants has the benefit of these characters and this story never being adapted before which could generate some interest. At least I'm glad Anya's getting good press from Emma and Disney are still cool with Searchlight.
And speaking of trends, since it looks like Brahms is coming and going now just like Fantasy Island did before it. I hope Invisible Man next week ends this long spell of horror doing ho-hum business at best. I don't think any original (not powered by existing film franchise momentum like Annabelle Comes Home and It Chapter 2) has even passed 100 million worldwide since Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark half a year ago.