Paramount’s Sonic the Hedgehog 3 posted $6.5M last night in previews. That’s the official number from Paramount. Disney reports that Mufasa did $3.3M.
Those are the best previews ever for a Sonic the Hedgehog movie, ahead of the previous installment’s $5M Thursday and combined overall preview take of $6.25M. Sonic the Hedgehog 2 opened to $72.1M, the best so far of the series. Sonic the Hedgehog‘s previews were $3M back in February 2020; that movie opening up before the pandemic to $58M.
Sonic the Hedgehog 3 is expected to open to $60M while Mufasa was originally forecasted to be north of $50M. Don’t know if Mufasa will get there as its previews aren’t that far from Wonka ($3.5M) which did $39M and Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse ($3.5M, and $35.4M). The Barry Jenkins directed prequel is booked at 4,100 theaters.
This historically has been the frame where the mega Christmas movie opens, i.e. Star Wars: Force Awakens, Avatar The Way of Water and Spider-Man: No Way Home, however, the industry puts all their hope on moviegoing exploding Christmas Day and beyond into New Year’s weekend. Today Comscore reports that 13% K-12 are on break while 81% colleges are off. This moves to 95% K-12 off on Monday and 94% colleges on break before near 100% levels from Christmas Eve though Jan. 1.
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