{"id":124805,"date":"2022-04-26T10:00:01","date_gmt":"2022-04-26T08:00:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/?p=124805"},"modified":"2022-04-26T10:01:12","modified_gmt":"2022-04-26T08:01:12","slug":"sonic-2-approaches-300-million-at-box-office-but-super-mario-bros-movie-is-delayed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/entertainment\/124805-sonic-2-approaches-300-million-at-box-office-but-super-mario-bros-movie-is-delayed","title":{"rendered":"Sonic 2 approaches $300 million at box office &#8211; but Super Mario Bros movie is delayed"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Sonic the Hedgehog 2&#8217;s international box office earnings\u00a0are approaching $300 million.<\/p>\n<p>The first Sonic movie managed to gross $319.7 million worldwide during its run, and the sequel is expected to surpass this figure.<\/p>\n<p>The movie\u2019s domestic American Box office has also reached the milestone of $146 million, officially making it the highest-grossing domestic release of a video game film.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/SonicMovie2?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#SonicMovie2<\/a> surpassed the 2020 <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/SonicMovie?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#SonicMovie<\/a> to claim the top spot in this domestic box office record for the highest grossing film based on a video game franchise. <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/SonicNews?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#SonicNews<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/rlQ5Om7216\">pic.twitter.com\/rlQ5Om7216<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Tails&#8217; Channel \u00b7 Sonic the Hedgehog News &amp; Updates (@TailsChannel) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/TailsChannel\/status\/1518763729323757576?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">April 26, 2022<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>In other video game movie news, Nintendo has <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/NintendoAmerica\/status\/1518756878251089921\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">announced<\/a><\/strong> that the Super Mario Bros animated movie has been delayed till 2023. The movie is now slated to release on 7 April in North America and 28 April in Japan.<\/p>\n<p>The animated film, which stars Chris Pratt as the voice of Mario, was initially slated for a December 2022 release.<\/p>\n<p>Shigeru Miyamoto, the Mario series creator, apologised for the delay but stated the movie would be worth the wait.<\/p>\n<p>Sony Pictures also revealed at CinemaCon that Venom 3 and another Ghostbusters movie are in production.<\/p>\n<p>According to <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/variety.com\/2022\/film\/news\/venom-3-ghostbusters-afterlife-sequel-sony-1235240650\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Variety<\/a><\/strong>, Venom 3 has been greenlit following the success of Venom and Venom: Let There Be Carnage, and the next Ghostbusters movie will be a follow-up to the 2021 reboot Ghostbusters: Afterlife.<\/p>\n<p>No further details were shared on either movie.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><strong>Read: <a href=\"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/pc\/124800-diablo-immortal-to-launch-in-june\">Diablo Immortal to launch in June<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sonic 2 is approaching $300 million at the international box office, the Super Mario Bros animated movie has been delayed, and Sony has revealed that both Venom 3 and a Ghostbusters movie are in the works. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":250,"featured_media":124806,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_enabled":true,"_sma_x_custom_text":"","_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[7634,323,1590,26071,25405,26072],"class_list":["post-124805","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-entertainment","tag-game-movies","tag-mario","tag-sonic","tag-sonic-2","tag-venom","tag-venom-3"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/124805","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/250"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=124805"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/124805\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/124806"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=124805"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=124805"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=124805"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}