Sonic the Hedgehog 2 races to box office with $71M opening while Ambulance burns out at $8.5M

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The two biggest films opening this weekend - Sonic the Hedgehog 2 and Ambulance - drew distinctly different box office numbers.Jeff Fowler's sequel to the Sega video game franchise will amass an estimated $71M in the first three days from 4,234 theaters, which is +22% over the first film back in 2020 - according to Deadline.Sonic 2 was a major hit with audiences, scoring 97% (out of 2,500+ ratings) on Rotten Tomatoes as opposed to the 67% critic approval rating (out of 120 reviews).

Guns blazing: The two biggest films opening this weekend - Sonic the Hedgehog 2 (L) and Ambulance (R) - drew distinctly different box office numbersDemographics showed the $90M-budget PG sci-fi comedy drew 46% of the coveted 18-34 year-old age group of which 61% were men.Sonic the Hedgehog 2 stars James Marsden, Tika Sumpter, Jim Carrey, Idris Elba, Ben Schwartz, and Colleen O'Shaughnessey.

Meanwhile, Michael Bay's $40M-budget remake of Laurits Munch-Petersen's 2005 movie Ambulancen will only earn $8.5M in its first three days from 3,412 theaters, which has it landing the No.

4 spot.Universal Pictures' R-rated action thriller - starring Jake Gyllenhaal, Yahya Abdul-Mateen II, and Eiza González - was watched by mostly older men with 49% of the audience over age 35.