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Box-Office Weekend: Sonic the Hedgehog Leads the Pack Again

Mike Tyrkus
Box Office Weekend

For the second week in a row, Sonic the Hedgehog held the top spot over the box-office weekend. The film added $26.3 million this weekend to give it a two-week tally of $106.6 million. Even though it took the number one spot over the weekend, it was not as dominant a  finish as it enjoyed last weekend as it only out earned the second place film by $1.5 million.

Harrison Ford and The Call of the Wild finished in the second spot with a debut weekend of $24.8 million. Meanwhile, Birds of Prey: And the Fantabulous Emancipation of One Harley Quinn was dropped one spot from second to third earning $7.0 million for the weekend and listing its three-week total to $72.5 million.

The horror film, Brahms: The Boy II, debuted this weekend in fourth place with $5.9 million. The critically acclaimed film, 1917, held firm in the sixth position with $4.4 million. This gives the film a nine-week total of $152 million. Dropping drastically from third place last to seventh this weekend was the horror film reimagining of Fantasy Island. The film took in $4.2 million over the weekend to give it a disappointing two-week total of $20.2 million.

Still basking in its post-Oscar glow, Best Picture winner Parasite stood firm in eighth place as it added another $3.1 million to give it a twenty-week tally of $48.9 million. Dropping two spots from seventh to ninth, earning $3 million over the weekend was Jumanji: The Next Level. This film can now boast an eleven-week total of $311 million. Finally, plummeting from the fourth spot last weekend to the tenth this weekend was the film The Photograph which added $2.8 million over the weekend to give the film an unimpressive two-week total of $17.6 million.

Only two films departed the top ten over the weekend. Dolittle took in $1.9 million over the weekend and bows out of the top ten with a six-week total of $74.5 million. Meanwhile, Downhill managed only $1.4 million in its second week of release and departs the top ten after earning only $7.4 million total.

Next weekend will feature another horror film opening in wide release as The Invisible Man arrives from Universal.

Weekend Box Office (February 21st – February 23rd)

  1. Sonic the Hedgehog…$26.3 Million
  2. The Call of the Wild…$24.8 Million
  3. Birds of Prey: And the Fantabulous Emancipation of One Harley Quinn…$7 Million
  4. Brahms: The Boy II…$5.9 Million
  5. Bad Boys for Life…$5.9 Million
  6. 1917…$4.4 Million
  7. Fantasy Island…$4.2 Million
  8. Parasite…$3.1 Million
  9. Jumanji: The Next Level…$3 Million
  10. The Photograph…$2.8 Million

Mike Tyrkus

Editor in Chief at CinemaNerdz.com
An independent filmmaker, co-writer and director of over a dozen short films, the Editor in Chief of CinemaNerdz.com has spent much of the last three decades as a writer and editor specializing in biographical and critical reference sources in literature and the cinema, beginning in February 1991 reviewing films for his college newspaper. He was a member of the Detroit Film Critics Society, as well as the group's webmaster and one-time President for over a decade until the group ceased to exist. His contributions to film criticism can be found in Magill's Cinema Annual, VideoHound's Golden Movie Retriever (of which he was the editor for nearly a decade until it too ceased to exist), the International Dictionary of Films and Filmmakers, and the St. James Film Directors Encyclopedia (on which he collaborated with editor Andrew Sarris). He has also appeared on the television program Critic LEE Speaking alongside Lee Thomas of FOX2 and Adam Graham, of The Detroit News. He currently lives in the Detroit area with his wife and their dogs.

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