Sonic the Hedgehog 3 wants to leave Disney’s highly anticipated race behind The Lion King prequel, Mufasa, at the box office in December and early predictions look like that could actually happen. Per deadline, Sonic3 wants to overtake Barry Jenkins Mufasa by more than $55 million to $50 million. However, Disney has not yet fully entered the market Mufasa Marketing. However, trailers for the film will be shown this weekend Moana 2 Start.

The film 2019 The Lion King, earned $1.6 billion worldwide $543.6 million comes from domestically, while the budget is $260 million. Mufasa The film stars Aaron Pierre as the voice of the title character, Seth Rogen as Pumbaa, Billy Eichner as Timon, Mads Mikkelsen as Kiros, Donald Glover as Simba, Thandiwe Newton as Eshe, Beyoncé as Nala and Blue Ivy Carter as Kiara.

Sonic’s box office performance so far

The first sound Film, Sonic the Hedgehog, as of 2020, it grossed $319.7 million at the box office worldwide, including $148.9 million domestically. Its sequel, 2022 Sonic the Hedgehog 2, earned $405.4 million worldwide and $190.8 million domestically.

However, this year’s Christmas box office, starting with what is expected to be a record-breaking Thanksgiving weekend, is expected to be good Sonic3 The estimate is lower than the opening weekend totals for both previous films. sound And Sonic2 earned $58 million and $72.1 million in their opening weekends, respectively.

Sonic3 could have more momentum ahead of the Dec. 20 opening Mufasa due to its all-star cast including Keanu Reeves as Shadow, Jim Carrey in dual roles as Dr. Robotnik and his grandfather, Idris Elba as Knuckles and Ben Schwartz as Sonic. In addition, James Marsden and Tika Sumpter will reprise their roles as Tom and Maddie Wachowski.

Reeves recently spoke about his role as Shadow in the threequel in a feature shared by Screen Rant. “For 50 years, Shadow has been in a state of stasis,” Reeves said. “He is looking for revenge. It was really an inner journey to feel the anger and emotions. It was intense.Sonic3 and playing Shadow…it’s really on another level,” he said.

His co-star Carrey said that when he heard Reeves wanted to play the role of Shadow, he thought it was perfect. “When I heard Keanu Reeves wanted to play Shadow, I was like, ‘Oh, all right.’ Shadow has that likeable, brooding kind of darkness that Keanu has mastered so brilliant,” Carrey said.

Shadow is an “edgy” character

The film’s director Jeff Fowler said that the inclusion of Shadow gives the story a darker and more dangerous tone. “’Edginess’ may not be the right word, but sonically there was a new element it just suddenly did that sound The world feels a little more exciting, a little more dangerous. I think that’s exactly what Shadow did for this film,” Fowler said in an interview with Entertainment Weekly.

The box office predictions should come as no surprise as the previous two films did well and the ankle The Paramount+ TV miniseries starring Elba set records for the streamer as its debut episode earned more than 4 million hours of viewing time.

Both Mufasa And Sonic the Hedgehog 3 hits theaters on December 20th.

Source: Deadline