However, Detective Pikachu is still ahead of Sonic the Hedgehog in international territories, with earnings of over $400 million dollars.
While Detective Pikachu was technically a video game adaptation, the Pokemon characters the film used were already very familiar to audiences thanks to decades of animated shows and movies set within the universe.
Then there is the curse of the movie adaptation that most video game features suffer from.
This puts it slightly ahead of Detective Pikachu, which managed to make around $144 million domestically.