Sonic the Hedgehog 3 has crossed a rare box office milestone for a video game adaptation. The movie is the third installment in the live-action franchise bringing the world of SEGA's games to the big screen and follows the arrival of the powerful hedgehog Shadow (Keanu Reeves), forcing Sonic (Ben Schwartz) and his friends to team up with their enemy Dr. Robotnik (Jim Carrey). The
Sonic the Hedgehog 3 release kicked off the weekend before Christmas in 2024, taking No. 1 on the domestic chart for two consecutive weekends.
Per
Deadline, as of Saturday morning,
Sonic the Hedgehog 3 is projected to earn a three-day total of $8.67 million at the domestic box office by the end of its fourth weekend in theaters. This will bring its cumulative domestic total to $202.1 million, making it only
the second video game movie ever to cross the $200 million domestic milestone. The previous title to do so was 2023's
The Super Mario Bros. Movie, which passed that milestone after just five days in theaters and went on to gross $1.36 billion worldwide.
Although
Sonic the Hedgehog 3 is still trailing far behind the No. 1 highest-grossing domestic video game movie, this accomplishment is still dazzling. Not only have just two movies ever passed the $200 million milestone in North America,
only 10 have ever passed the $100 million milestone, including
Pokémon: Detective Pikachu,
Five Nights at Freddy's,
Uncharted, and the two previous
Sonic movies. Below, see a breakdown of the current chart of the 10 highest-performing video games movies at the domestic box office: