'Sonic the Hedgehog 3' surpasses its predecessors; reaches $422 million in the world

Sonic the Hedgehog 3 celebrates its first month of exhibition in theaters in the best way: surpassing the box office of its predecessors.

The movie of Paramount Pictures, set a new record as the highest-grossing installment of the franchise Sonic upon reaching the $422.3 million dollars worldwide (box office as of Sunday).

Sonic 3 exceeded $405.4 million dollars Sonic 2 (2022), and the $319.7 million dollars of Sonic (2020).

Of the $422.3 mdd of Sonic 3$203.5 million comes from the international box office where it is exhibited in 64 markets.

Its five best markets are: United Kingdom ($27.7 million), Mexico ($20.2 mdd)France ($17.3 billion), Australia ($15.5 billion) and Brazil ($11.2 billion).

The saga based on the SEGA video game exceeds one billion dollars in tickets sold worldwide. The trilogy has been a great commercial success for Paramount.

Prior to the premiere of Sonic 3 In December, the combined global box office of the first two films totaled $870.8 million. In addition to the film franchise, the spinoff series was created Knuckles and el streamer Paramount+.

Sonic 3 is marking the cinematic debut of Shadow, one of Sonic's enemies, considered in many ways the anti-Sonic.

It was created by Dr. Gerald Robotnik, grandfather of Dr. Ivo Robotnik (Jim Carrey). He was genetically modified with alien DNA, a speedster with teleportation powers. Shadow debuted in Sonic Adventure 2 2001. For his film debut, his voice is provided by Keanu Reeves.

The third installment of the franchise Sonic the Hedgehog of the director Jeff Fowler (director of all three films), explores new areas of the video game universe created by SEGA.

The script was written by Pat Casey, Josh Millery John Whittington,

SYNOPSIS:

“Sonic returns to the big screen this holiday season in his most exciting adventure yet. Sonic, Knuckles and Tails will reunite to face a powerful new adversary, Shadow, a mysterious villain with powers never seen before. With their abilities surpassed in every way, Team Sonic must seek an unlikely alliance in hopes of stopping Shadow and protecting the planet.”

The cast features the returns of Carrey, Ben Schwartz lending his voice to Sonic, James Marsden like Tom Wachowski, Colleen O’Shaughnessey lending his voice to Tails, and Idris Elba a Knuckles. Con Tika Sumpter, Natasha Rothwell, Adam Pally y Lee Majdoub, Krysten Ritter (Jessica Jones), Alyla Browne (Furious), James Cloud (Watchmen), Sofia Pernas (Jane the Virgin), Cristo Fernandez (Ted Lasso), y Jorma Taccone (Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse) completing the cast.

Neal H. Moritz, Toby Ascher, Toru Nakahara, and Hitoshi Okuno produced el largometraje.