{"id":575849,"date":"2026-03-15T18:53:24","date_gmt":"2026-03-15T18:53:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.vg247.com\/sonic-the-hedgehog-2-highest-grossing-video-game-movie-of-all-time"},"modified":"2026-03-15T18:53:24","modified_gmt":"2026-03-15T18:53:24","slug":"sonic-the-hedgehog-2-is-now-the-highest-grossing-video-game-movie-of-all-time","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arcader.org\/news\/sonic-the-hedgehog-2-is-now-the-highest-grossing-video-game-movie-of-all-time\/","title":{"rendered":"Sonic the Hedgehog 2 is now the highest grossing video game movie of all time"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/arcader.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/sonic-the-hedgehog-2-is-now-the-highest-grossing-video-game-movie-of-all-time.jpg\" \/> <\/p>\n<p><strong>Sonic the Hedgehog 2<\/strong> hasn&#8217;t even been out for a month, and it&#8217;s safe to say that it has already been a huge success for everyone involved. Namely, SEGA and Paramount Pictures.<\/p>\n<p>The sequel is <strong>nearing $300 million in sales<\/strong> (via <a href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/2022\/04\/fantastic-beasts-secrets-of-dumbledore-sonic-the-hedgehog-2-lost-city-kgf-china-global-international-box-office-1235008855\/\">Deadline<\/a>), currently sitting at $287 million earnt. This is already more than the original Sonic the Hedgehog film from 2020, and makes it the highest grossing video game movie of all time.<\/p>\n<p>In an International Box Office update, Deadline shared the following:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.vg247.com\/sonic-the-hedgehog-2-highest-grossing-video-game-movie-of-all-time\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.vg247.com\/sonic-the-hedgehog-2-highest-grossing-video-game-movie-of-all-time\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sonic the Hedgehog 2 hasn&#8217;t even been out for a month, and it&#8217;s safe to say that it has already been a huge success for everyone involved. Namely, SEGA and Paramount Pictures. The sequel is nearing $300 million in sales (via Deadline), currently sitting at $287 million earnt. This is already more than the original Sonic the Hedgehog film from 2020, and makes it the highest grossing video game movie of all time. In an International Box Office update, Deadline shared the following: Read more Source<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":575850,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[259,6746,243,4880,27,265,1151,6349],"class_list":["post-575849","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-vg24-7","tag-action-adventure","tag-kidsfamily","tag-paramount","tag-paramount-pictures","tag-sega","tag-sonic","tag-sonic-the-hedgehog","tag-sonic-the-hedgehog-2-movie"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.3 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Sonic the Hedgehog 2 is now the highest grossing video game movie of all time | Arcader News<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Sonic the Hedgehog 2 hasn&#039;t even been out for a month, and it&#039;s safe to say that it has already been a huge success for everyone involved. 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