Sonic the Hedgehog 2 Tops $400 Million at the Global Box Office - News
by William D'Angelo , posted on 23 June 2022 / 2,419 Views
The Sonic The Hedgehog 2 live action movie earned $71 million in its opening weekend at the domestic box office, which was enough to make it the biggest opening weekend ever in the domestic market for a video game movie.
The move has now surpassed $400 million at the global box office and is the fifth highest-grossing video game movie of all time. It is only $1.6 million away from surpassing another 2022 video game movie, Uncharted, to move up the charts to fourth place.
Warcraft is the highest-grossing video game movie of all time having grossed $439,048,914. Detective Pikachu comes in second with a gross of $433,005,346 and Rampage in third with a gross of $428,028,233.
Sonic the Hedgehog 2 has surpassed $400 million at the Global Box Office. That's a major milestone that both big Hollywood Video Game Adaptations reached in 2022
— Benji-Sales (@BenjiSales) June 22, 2022
• Uncharted - $401.6m
• Sonic 2 - $400m
Live Action video game adaptations contine to grow in popularity pic.twitter.com/YDpMkue0rS
A life-long and avid gamer, William D'Angelo was first introduced to VGChartz in 2007. After years of supporting the site, he was brought on in 2010 as a junior analyst, working his way up to lead analyst in 2012 and taking over the hardware estimates in 2017. He has expanded his involvement in the gaming community by producing content on his own YouTube channel and Twitch channel. You can contact the author on Twitter @TrunksWD.
