Weekend box office: 'Sonic the Hedgehog' record opening

Paramount Pictures may have finally cracked the code on how to successfully bring a video game character to the big screen. "Sonic the Hedgehog" burst into theaters over the weekend, hauling in an estimated $57 million Friday through Sunday domestically, the highest opening of any video game movie adaption in film industry history.

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