Hollywood's new obsession with video game franchises

He did not compete at the last Oscars and will not climb the steps of the next Cannes Film Festival.

But

hopes to reach heights at the global box office.

The blue hedgehog, a cult character in Sega video games since the 1990s, returns to cinemas on Wednesday, after the success of his first film.

At the start of 2020,

had had a meteoric start, reaching 320 million euros in revenue before the Covid epidemic stopped its rise in its tracks.

A good operation despite everything, the film's budget having cost between 80 and 90 million dollars.

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Paramount had a hollow nose when it took over this project abandoned by Sony Pictures a few years earlier… And it intends to make the most of this new vein.

A third

movie is already in the works.

And a series centered on the character of Knuckles is also planned, by 2023, for its Paramount + platform.

These versions on large or small screens are no exception...

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