Paramount Pictures has announced the new release date for its Sonic The Hedgehog film and it also pushed back the release date for its Smurfs animated musical.
Sonic The Hedgehog 3 will open on theatre screens on 20 December 2024 and Smurfs will release on 14 February 2025.
According to Deadline reports, Sonic will release in theatres along with James Cameron’s Avatar 3, it was predicted both the films have tough face-off.
Sonic The Hedgehog is based on famous video game of the same name and its first film was released in 2020. The film garnered about $319.7 million worldwide and the sequel made the business of $400 million worldwide.
While multiple Smurfs films, based on the Belgian comics, have been made in recent memory—including The Smurfs (2011), The Smurfs 2 (2013), and Smurfs: The Lost Village (2017)—those projects hailed from Sony.
Paramount confirmed its plans to make a third Sonic film back in February, announcing its upcoming Smurfs project—centered on the blue humanoid creatures of the same name—back at CinemaCon 2021.
