Paramount Pictures has announced that the Sonic the Hedgehog film franchise has earned more than $1 billion at the global box office. The movie franchise--based on Sega's long-running video game series--kicked off back in February 2020 and has since expanded with two sequels,

The Sonic the Hedgehog movie franchise has surpassed $1 billion at the global box office. The milestone figure was announced in a post on Paramount’s Sonic the Hedgehog X account. “Woo-hoo! The Sonic the Hedgehog film franchise zooms past $1 billion at the global box office! Thank you to the best fans in the world,” it reads.

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Sonic the Hedgehog 3 hit theaters late last month and has already grossed more than $300 million worldwide, pushing the film series based on Sega’s popular video games past the one-billion mark and making it one of Paramount’s biggest ongoing franchises.

As 'Sonic the Hedgehog 3' continues to flourish at the box office, the Sega movie franchise has grossed $1 billion at the worldwide box office.

It’s no secret that the Sonic the Hedgehog movies have been popular, but Sonic the Hedgehog 3 has catapulted Sega’s iconic character and his flicks over the $1 billion mark in gross sales worldwide. The movie came out in the middle of December and saw a great response immediately,

The Sonic film franchise has now surpassed $1bn at the global box office, following the release of Sonic the Hedgehog 3 prior to Christmas. The latest film earned over $187m in the US, for a worldwide total of $336.