User blog:Ceauntay/Sonic X: The Final Stand busted Box Office Records

Sonic X: The Final Stand kicks off the mid summer this weekend as it brought in huge sales from its midnight showing last night. The last installment grossed $19.7 million from 3,500 locations, which made it the biggest midnight opening ever for an animated movie.

It was also Fox's biggest opening ever. With that amount of money, it should be kicking off with this year's biggest opening yet within $125 million. That will cause to break about five box office records; biggest opening for an animated film (surprising Shrek the Third with $122 million in 2007), biggest opening for a film from 20th Century Fox (surprising Star Wars Episode III: Revenge of the Sith with $108 million in 2005, biggest opening for a 3D film (surprising Alice in Wonderland with $116 million last year), biggest opening for the film series (surprising Sonic X: Return to Soleanna with $105 million last year) and the biggest opening of 2011 (surprising ''Scooby-Doo! The Movie'' with $114 million this year).

The film will be playing in 4,205 theaters including 3,039 of them in 3D and 260 IMAX. After a week of being at the top of the box office within $66 million, Thor will fall to second taking in more than $30 million, and should be crossing the $100 million mark, and about $300 million worldwide. Bridesmaid will be opening in third, and followed by Fast Five at number four. Priest will open in the top five.

Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides opens next weekend. Johnny Depp returns as Jack Sparrow, where Keira Knightley and Orlando Bloom will not.