Sonic wins his second race!
The speedy blue gold-grabber known as SONIC THE HEDGEHOG held onto first place at the box office for another weekend with an estimated $26.3 million!
The classic video game character decelerated by 55% from last week's opening, giving the swift Ben Schwartz-voiced creature a ten-day domestic total of $106.6 million over the school vacation week.
The big-screen version of Sega's dizzyingly quick mascot already has the fourth-biggest domestic total for a video game adaptation, passing 2018's RAMPAGE ($101 million) and rapidly coming up behind THE ANGRY BIRDS MOVIE ($107.5 million), LARA CROFT: TOMB RAIDER ($131.4 million) and last year's POKEMON DETECTIVE PIKACHU ($144.1 million).
The PG-rated Paramount comedy, featuring humans James Marsden, Tika Sumpter, and Jim Carrey as Sonic's nemesis Dr. Robotnik, has also gathered $42.9 million from international audiences for a worldwide total of $149.5 million on a reported cost of $85 million.
Opening in second place was the new PG-rated adventure THE CALL OF THE WILD with $24.8 million.
Based on the classic Jack London novel, the story of a dog named Buck and his Yukon experiences with Harrison Ford's grizzled prospector also fetched $15.4 million from overseas for a worldwide total of $40.2 million.
Directed by Chris Sanders (HOW TO TRAIN YOUR DRAGON, THE CROODS) and also featuring Dan Stevens, Karen Gillan and Bradley Whitford, the family feature from 20th Century Studios (formerly Fox, now owned by Disney) cost a reported $135 million.
Critics had mixed feelings about Ford's Gold Rush exploits with computer-generated animals, giving the movie a 63% average on Rotten Tomatoes and a score of 47 on Metacritic. Dig for valuable rocks with the JoBlo review HERE.
In third place was the R-rated DC Comics adaptation BIRDS OF PREY with $7 million on its third weekend in theaters. The Warner Bros. release with Margot Robbie's Harley Quinn and friends now has a domestic total of $72.5 million and a worldwide total of $173.7 million, on a reported cost of $84.5 million.
In fourth place was the horror sequel BRAHMS: THE BOY II with an opening weekend of $5.9 million.
Directed by the first movie's William Brent Bell, the new supernatural thriller with the creepy doll (this time menacing the family of Katie Holmes) cost a reported $10 million, and scared up an extra $2.2 million from international audiences for an $8.1 million worldwide total.
The original THE BOY, which starred Lauren Cohan of "The Walking Dead" along with that spooky figure, started out with a $10.7 million domestic opening before ultimately finishing with $74 million worldwide on a $10 million budget.
Critics couldn't wait to get away from the unsettling porcelain doll, giving the movie an average of 11% on Rotten Tomatoes and a 30 score on Metacritic.
The R-rated action sequel BAD BOYS FOR LIFE stayed in fifth place with $5.8 million, bringing Sony's $90 million Will Smith/Martin Lawrence reunion to a domestic total of $191.7 million and a worldwide total of $391 million after six weekends.
In sixth place was the World War I drama 1917 with $4.4 million. Universal's R-rated thriller has fought its way to a domestic total of $151.9 million and a worldwide total of $347.2 million, on a reported cost of $90 million.
The PG-13 thriller FANTASY ISLAND was in seventh place with $4.1 million, sinking by 66% from its opening last weekend — a fairly typical drop for a horror release.
Blumhouse's twisted TV show adaptation from KICK-ASS 2 director Jeff Wadlow has a ten-day domestic total of $20.1 million and a worldwide total of $33.7 million, on a frugal budget of $7 million.
Oscar-winning South Korean import PARASITE was in eighth place with $3.1 million. Filmmaker Bong Joon-ho's R-rated comedy-drama has a domestic total of $48.9 million and $210 million worldwide on a reported $11 million cost.
The resilient adventure sequel JUMANJI: THE NEXT LEVEL was in ninth place with $3 million on its eleventh weekend in the Top 10. The PG-13 action-comedy from Sony has accumulated a domestic total of $310.9 million and a worldwide total of $787.9 million on a reported $125 million cost.
Closing out the list was the PG-13 romance THE PHOTOGRAPH with $2.8 million, jilted by a 77% plunge from its Valentine's Day opening. The $16 million drama from Universal has a ten-day domestic total of $17.6 million.
Outside the chart, Robert Downey Jr.'s talking-animal adventure DOLITTLE departed along with the R-rated Will Ferrell/Julia Louis-Dreyfus comedy-drama DOWNHILL, disappearing after one chilly weekend in the Top 10.
In limited release, the PG-rated Jane Austen adaptation EMMA. got a strong start with a $46k per-screen average ahead of its wide expansion next week.
The period comedy-drama with Anya Taylor-Joy as the title character also got a generally favorable reaction from critics with an average of 88% on Rotten Tomatoes and a score of 69 on Metacritic (the JoBlo review is HERE).
Next weekend has the latest take on the classic Universal monster THE INVISIBLE MAN, while limited releases include Daniel Radcliffe and Samara Weaving in the R-rated action-comedy GUNS AKIMBO.
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