Wiki News/'Sonic X: Return to Soleanna' is still number one at the Friday box office

I was asked only a few minutes before these Friday numbers came out just who I thought would win the weekend box-office. I was torn between Columbia's The Karate Kid and The A-Team. I couldn't figure out just how big the audience would be for Karate Kid, but the answer appears to be HUGE! You wanted the summer box-office to turnaround? But as for Sonic X: Return to Soleanna, it's still huge, but not as many people like they're were when they're were buch of little kids, young teenagers and young adults and a couple of movie theaters were extremely full last week.

Sonic X took in $25.1 million at the Friday box-office, falling 75 percent from last Friday's huge opening Friday box office, which made $80.4 million, will be brining it's second photo finish more than $60 million to $70 million this Sunday, and it would be up to it's total of $270 million or less or maybe more in two weeks. Other countries opened the movie, that means that it's overseas total will raise up to $400 million, to give the movie's worldwide total up to $600 million. Fox said the movie is expected to make $300 million domestically, and $900 million to go on and became the most successful animated movie worldwide of all-time to charge to Shrek 2's $919 million worldwide, and wasn't able to reached it's domestic gross of $441 million.

Well, it has as Karate Kid took in $18.8 million at the Friday box-office and is likely to take over $50 million for the weekend. Nikki Finke delivers the early numbers and estimates $52 million, but I don't see any reason why this one won't be able to hit $60 considering the weekend is when the families really turn out. She's more often right than wrong, but I just wanted to be sure I put that out there.

As for Fox's The A-Team, it only managed $9.7 million. I haven't had the time to look through all the predictions made by readers in Laremy's Box-Office Oracle article, but I know he had A-Team at #1 and that's obviously not going to happen as it probably won't hit the $30 million mark, $10 million shy of Laremy's prediction. If you have the time you may want to check out Finke's article on how The A-Team had 11 screenwriters and how only three got credit right here, it's interesting.

Otherwise, everything else is hold overs. I personally donated $10 to Get Him to the Greek and next weekend may be taking in a second viewing of The A-Team while everyone else feeds the Disney/Pixar coffers for Toy Story 3. When Toy Story 3 arrives, it will murder Sonic X.

Check out the estimated Friday numbers below and stay tuned Sunday for Laremy's wrap-up piece.


 * 1) Sonic X: Return to Soleanna - $25.1 million
 * 2) Karate Kid – $18.8 million
 * 3) The A-Team – $9.7 million
 * 4) Shrek Forever After – $4.5 million
 * 5) Get Him To The Greek – $3.3 million
 * 6) Killers – $2.7 million
 * 7) Prince Of Persia – $1.9 million
 * 8) Marmaduke – $1.8 million
 * 9) Sex And The City 2 – $1.8 million
 * 10) Iron Man 2 – $1.3 million