Wiki News/Weekend Box Office Predictions: SONIC X: RETURN TO SOLEANNA breaking box office record

Sonic X: Return to Soleanna will likely rule North America’s weekend box office as well as the world record, according to most predictions. Figures are expected to remain tepid, as business should heat up only with the arrival of Jackie Chan’s The Karate Kid, Lee Unkrich’s Toy Story 3, and Robert Pattinson, Kristen Stewart, and Taylor Lautner’s The Twilight Saga: Eclipse.

Sonic X: Return to Soleanna is expected to gross between $150-$170m to set a new record killing The Dark Knight's $158m back in 2008, thanks to Sonic's $11.5 million from midnight, while Shrek Forever After is expected to gross between $25-$30m on its third weekend, while the four new releases — Get Him to the Greek, Marmaduke, Killers, and Splice — will likely fail to offer it any major competition. As for last weekend’s holdovers, Sarah Jessica Parker’s Sex and the City 2 and Jake Gyllenhaal’s Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time, they’ll be lucky if they’re still found among the top ten a few weeks from now.

The Jonah Hill-Russell Brand comedy Get Him to the Greek is expected to take in somewhere between $17-22m. Starring Ashton Kutcher and Katharine Heigl, the action-romance-comedy Killers should nab between $15-$18m, thus running neck-and-neck with kiddie flick Marmaduke, which revolves around a talking dog.

Executive produced by Guillermo del Toro, and starring Sarah Polley and Adrien Brody, Vincenzo Natale’s Splice should gross around $10m.

Both Sex and the City 2 and Prince of Persia are expected to collect another $15m or so; Iron Man 2 around $9-11m; and Robin Hood around $2-5m.