In a box office battle beween the Hedgehog and the Lion
Sonic the Hedgehog 3 beat out
Mufasa: The Lion King by a healthy amount.
Sonic the Hedgehog 3 came in with a very good $60.1 Million on its debut, nearly double that of the Disney The Lion King sequel.
A good debut from the video game adaptation threequel, but it is lower than the last movie in the series.
Last weeks top movie, Moana 2 falls to number 4 this weekend and has taken a mammoth $359 Million over 4 weeks of release.
US Box Office QuickView
- Number 1 - Sonic the Hedgehog 3 (1st Weekend)
- Highest debut - Sonic the Hedgehog 3 (@1)
- Longest run - Anora (10 weeks)
- Highest total gross - Wicked ($384,568,300)
- Best Percentage change week on week - A Real Pain (3%)
- Total US top 15 this weekend - $141,963,543
- Also new this weekend
- Check out the full US box office.
US weekend box office top 5 breakdown 20th - 22nd December 2024
Highest New Movie This Weekend
- The movie is the Highest Debut on this weekends US box office chart.
- It has spent 1 weeks at the top of the US box office.
- It grosses $60,102,146 over the weekend, a % drop from last weekend
- It has a total gross of $60,102,146 after 1 weekends of release
- The movie is a sequel to Sonic the Hedgehog 2 which took $72,105,176 at the box office after 1 weekends of release.
- The movie is a new entry at Number 2 on this weekends US box office
- It grosses $35,409,365 over the weekend, a % drop from last weekend
- It has a total gross of $35,409,365 after 1 weekends of release
- The movie is a sequel to The Lion King which took $191,770,759 at the box office after 1 weekends of release.
- The movie goes down the chart to Number 3 on this weekends US box office
- It grosses $14,152,425 over the weekend, a 37% drop from last weekend
- It has a total gross of $384,568,300 after 5 weekends of release
- The movie is the 3rd top grossing film so far in 2024
- The movie goes down the chart to Number 4 on this weekends US box office
- It grosses $13,204,249 over the weekend, a 50% drop from last weekend
- It has a total gross of $359,172,577 after 4 weekends of release
- The movie is the 5th top grossing film so far in 2024
- The movie is a sequel to Moana which took $162,920,977 at the box office after 4 weekends of release.
- The movie is a new entry at Number 5 on this weekends US box office
- It grosses $6,000,241 over the weekend, a % drop from last weekend
- It has a total gross of $6,000,241 after 1 weekends of release
This weeks top 10 US Box Office films
- Sonic the Hedgehog 3 - $60,102,146
- Mufasa: The Lion King - $35,409,365
- Wicked - $14,152,425
- Moana 2 - $13,204,249
- Homestead - $6,000,241
- Gladiator II - $4,556,914
- Kraven the Hunter - $3,052,388
- Red One - $1,486,256
- The Lord of the Rings: The War of the Rohirrim - $1,235,894
- The Best Christmas Pageant Ever - $780,000
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ABOUT:
Robert Hyde
Robert has been a film buff since he first visited the old Palace Cinema in High Wycome when he was young.
After working for Ritz Video Film Hire, later Blockbuster Express, it cemented his interest in film and gave him the drive to go to university with the intention of working in the industy.
6 years of college/university studying film and Culture and he decided to take a different path, so he taught himself to develop websites.
8 years at Amazon, 3 years at eBay, a year at PayPal and 6 years running his own digital marketing agency and here we are writing and developing saltypopcorn.co.uk.
