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Sonic The Hedgehog 2 was named Favorite Movie at the 2023 Nickelodeon Kids’ Choice Awards tonight. Other big winners include Wednesday as Favorite Family TV Show, and its star Jenna Ortega as Favorite Female TV Star (Family), along with kid-fave SpongeBob Squarepants as Favorite Animated Show and Stranger…

Paramount’s Sonic The Hedgehog 2 has crossed the $400M threshold at the global box office, including $190.6M from domestic and $209.5M internationally through Tuesday. It is currently the No. 8 film worldwide in 2022 and is likely to jump up a few notches as it still has Japan and Hong Kong to release. At Paramount’s…

UPDATE, writethru: On a weekend we could term "the calm before the Strange," there was nevertheless sustained holdover business at the international box office, and a new entry in the form of Universal/Focus' Downton Abbey: A New Era. In general this pre-Doctor Strange In The Multiverse Of Madness session saw family…

CinemaCon launches Monday at Caesars Palace in Las Vegas, the second in-person gathering of theater owners and Hollywood studios since August, and Covid. That edition was shadowed by the Delta Variant, ongoing theater closures and shifting release dates. Now the picture is significantly brighter. Domestic attendance…

UPDATE, writethru: Warner Bros' Fantastic Beasts: The Secrets Of Dumbledore crossed the $200M mark at the international box office this weekend, holding the top overseas position for the third frame in a row. The offshore session added $38.3M in 67 markets for a running total of $213.2M with worldwide at $280.3M. As…

SUNDAY AM Writethru: After Saturday AM update As the pandemic eases and the town questions what works on the big screen, the answers are largely family films, even if they are dated three weekends in a row. We’re talking about Universal/Dreamworks Animation’s overperformance of its $69M production The Bad Guys, which…

In an unusual feat for really any Monday at the box office, the No 2 movie from this past weekend beat the No. 1 opening pic. Specifically, Paramount’s Sonic the Hedgehog 2 made $4.5 million yesterday, compared with Warner Bros’ The Fantastic Beasts: The Secrets of Dumbledore‘s $3.68 million. Essentially, 41% of K-12…

UPDATE, writethru: It's no secret that Warner Bros' Fantastic Beasts: The Secrets Of Dumbledore had a less than magical opening domestically this weekend, coming after early overseas rollout began last frame. Still, at the international box office this weekend, the threequel was again the top movie and ranked No. 1 in…

TUESDAY UPDATE, writethru, with actuals: There were lots of moving parts at the international box office again this weekend as another major studio title kickstarted with early overseas rollout prior to its domestic debut. To wit: Warner Bros' Fantastic Beasts: The Secrets Of Dumbledore made its first apparition in 22…

SUNDAY AM WRITETHRU after late-Saturday PM post: Sonic the Hedgehog 2 is outstripping the three-day opening results of its 2020 original movie — which, keep in mind, was over a holiday weekend — with $71M. For Jim Carrey, Sonic the Hedgehog 2 is his biggest domestic opener on a three-day basis, beating the $68M start…

EXCLUSIVE: UTA has signed actor, producer, and podcast host Tika Sumpter (Sonic the Hedgehog, Mixed-ish) in all areas. In film, Sumpter will next be seen in Paramount Pictures' Sonic the Hedgehog 2 reprising the role of Maddie Wachowski alongside James Marsden and Jim Carrey later this year. Previously, she starred…

Sonic the Hedgehog 2, the sequel to the last big blockbuster before the pandemic, opens this weekend, keeping a steady stream of dollars into the theatrical marketplace with an estimated opening of $50 million-plus, and possibly $60M. The first movie in February 2020 broke the video game feature adaptation curse for…