Box Office: February 14-16, 2020: SONIC THE HEDGEHOG, BIRDS OF PREY, FANTASY ISLAND, & More

Box Office February 14-16, 2020

Sonic The Hedgehog premiered in the Number One spot at the box office over the weekend with $57 Million.

Birds of Prey (And the Fantabulous Emancipation of One Harley Quinn) was Second at the box office over the weekend with $17.1 Million.

Fantasy Island premiered in Third Place at the box office over the weekend with $12.4 Million.

The Photograph premiered in Fourth Place at the box office over the weekend with $12.2 Million.

Bad Boys For Life was Fifth at the box office over the weekend with $11.3 Million for $181.3 Million so far. World-wide, Bad Boys For Life has made $368.3 Million.

1917, Jumanji: The Next Level, Parasite, Dolittle, and Downhill round out the Top Ten respectively.

The films in the Top Ten that opened this weekend at the box office:

Sonic the Hedgehog is a 2020 adventure comedy film based on the video game franchise published by Sega. The film is directed by Jeff Fowler (in his feature directorial debut) from a screenplay by Pat Casey and Josh Miller. It stars Ben Schwartz as the voice of Sonic the Hedgehog and Jim Carrey as Doctor Robotnik, as well as James Marsden, Tika Sumpter, Natasha Rothwell, Adam Pally, and Neal McDonough. In the film, Sonic teams up with local town sheriff Tom Wachowski to escape the government and defeat Robotnik, who wants to steal Sonic’s powers for his robotics.

Blumhouse’s Fantasy Island (or simply Fantasy Island) is a 2020 American supernatural horror film directed, co-produced, and co-written by Jeff Wadlow. Based on ABC’s 1977 television series of the same name, it stars Michael Peña, Maggie Q, Lucy Hale, Austin Stowell, Portia Doubleday, Jimmy O. Yang, Ryan Hansen, and Michael Rooker. Jason Blum produced through his Blumhouse Productions banner, and Sony Pictures Releasing distributes. The plot follows five people who visit the titular island, where they discover that their dream fantasies begin to turn into terrifying living nightmares that they must try to survive.

The Photograph is a 2020 American romantic drama film written and directed by Stella Meghie. It follows the estranged daughter (Issa Rae) of a famous photographer who falls in love with the journalist (Lakeith Stanfield) assigned to cover her late mother. Chelsea Peretti, Lil Rel Howery and Courtney B. Vance also star.

Next week sees the release of: Brahms: The Boy II, The Call of the Wild, Emma, and a plethora of other mainstream and independent films. Find my predictions on these releases in the weekly The Bottom Line column. A preview: Sonic The Hedgehog will be Number One at the box office for the second week in a row.

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