Paramount's "Sonic the Hedgehog" won the domestic box office with an estimated $57 million .$57 million is the biggest opening ever for a video game movie, besting the $54.3 million opening by "Pokémon Detective Pikachu."
Best picture Oscar-winner "Parasite" took in $5.5 million over the weekend, after Neon expanded it to 2,000 screens. Its biggest weekend to date.Paramount finally has a box office winner, and it's thanks to a video game character and Jim Carrey wearing a silly mustache. Following duds like "Gemini Man," "Terminator: Dark Fate," and most recently "The Rhythm Section," the studio is atop the domestic box office this Presidents' Day weekend with "Sonic the Hedgehog."
The family-friendly movie brought in an estimated $57 million on over 4,100 screens . That's quiet a performance for a movie that Paramount only projected in the low $40 million range for the weekend. It also is a nice rebound for a title that out of the gate was bashed for its portrayal of the iconic gold ring-loving character, Sonic. The CGI blue speedster had ain the movie's original trailer which led to an uproar online. The visual effects artists went back to the drawing board and created a version more true to how Sonic looks in his video games, which Sega launched in the early 1990s .