Wiki News/'Sonic X: Return to Soleanna' is No. 1 at the Box Office

What?? Sonic's beat The Dark Knight's biggest opening weekend of 2008?? Damn!! Sonic X: Return to Soleanna has brought $167 million, did brought the #1 spot. Also, has a huge overseas opening of $245 million, bringing a worldwide total to $412 million, beats Harry Pottter and the Half-Blood Prince's ass.

Meanwhile, A plethora of new films, including Get Him to the Greek, Killers, Marmaduke and Splice, debuted at North American box offices over the weekend. However, none of them managed to remove Shrek Forever After from its position as the highest grossing film in the country. The Hollywood Insider is reporting that Shrek Forever After generated $25.3 million in domestic revenue to retain its No. 1 spot for the third consecutive week.

Get Him to the Greek, which stars comedic actors Russell Brand and Jonah Hill, provided the stiffest competition by bringing in an estimated $17.4 million during its opening weekend. Universal Pictures’ R-rated comedy, which features Brand continuing his portrayal of the role of rock musician Aldous Snow from Forgetting Sarah Marshall, is expected to perform well in the coming weeks. Killers, which stars Katherine Heigl and Ashton Kutcher, came in third place by generating just $16.1 million.

Prince of Persia and Sex and the City 2 came in fourth and fifth place, respectively, at the box office over the weekend. Twentieth Century Fox’s Marmaduke, a family film starring Owen Wilson and George Lopez, finished sixth over the weekend by generating $11.3 million. The most disappointing new release proved to be Splice, which earned just $7.4 million to come in eighth place.