Wiki News/'Sonic X' killed 'The Karate Kid' at the box office

Sonic X: Return to Soleanna beats 1984 remake The Karate Kid s weekend opening with an impressive $77 million according to The Hollywood Reporter, reviving some life into a sluggish summer box office, with Kid also made an impressive $56 million. Shrek Forever After, the previous box office champ three weeks running, came in third place with $15.8 million.

The weekend’s other big opening film, The A-Team, came in a distant third with $26 million.

Rounding out the top five are ‘Get Him to the Greek’ with $10 million bringing up its total sum to 36.5 million, and Killers with 8.1 million.

The strong opening means good news for the film's character, that Sonic should be facing to reach straight up to Alice in Wonderland's sight, and it's worldwide total should be coming to $1 billion or not. Next week Sonic X: Return to Soleanna faces some stiff competition with Disney's Toy Story 3 opening.