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World Box Office Weekend Report 21st - 23rd February 2020: Sonic remains at the top with Harrison Ford entering at 2 with Call Of The Wild

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Sonic the Hedgehog
The speedy blue hedgehog remains at the top of the global box office for a second weekend while The Call Of The Wild starring Harrison Ford makes its debut just behind at number 2.

Sonic The Hedgehog

Fast becoming one of the most successful video games based movies the JIm Carrey starring film remains at the top for a second weekend with $64.6 Million from 57 countries.

This brings the movies total gross to just over $200 Million after 2 weeks of release, this is the top grossing film for Jim Carrey in over 10 years and at the current pace it iwll be his top grossing film since 2003.

The Call Of The Wild

The Call Of The Wild

Following up his recent turns in the Star Wars follow ups Harrison Ford stars in this dog based movie which makes its debut at number 2 with $40.2 Million from 41 countries.

Birds Of Prey (And The Fantabulous Emancipation Of One Harley Quinn)

The Harley Quinn starring movie falls to number 3 this week with a gross of $17 Million from a very wide 79 countries.

This takes the Margot Robbie starring movie to $173 Million after 3 weeks of release, it will most likely go over $200 Million but it will be a low grossing DC Universe movie.

Bad Boys For Life

The surprise smash hit movie starring Will Smith and Martin Lawrence falls to number 4 this week with $13.9 Million from 61 countries.

This takes the film to an excellent $391.1 Million after 6 weeks of release.

1917

Sam Mendes war movie falls to number 5 this week with $13.8 Million from 51 countries taking the films total gross to $347.2 Million after 7 weeks of release.

This weeks top 10 World Box Office films

  1. Sonic the Hedgehog - $64,600,000
  2. The Call of the Wild - $40,220,000
  3. Birds of Prey (And the Fantabulous Emancipation of One Harley Quinn) - $17,005,000
  4. Bad Boys For Life - $13,960,000
  5. 1917 - $13,800,000
  6. Dolittle - $12,850,000
  7. Parasite - $12,055,000
  8. Brahms: The Boy II - $8,120,000
  9. Fantasy Island - $8,085,000
  10. The Gentlemen - $7,850,000
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