The trailer has and, I'm not making this shit up, Gangster's Paradise by Coolio as the music track playing in it.
Please let this be real. Between rumors of Sonic flossing and fucking
Gangster's Paradise being the trailer score, the Sonic movie could end up being my favorite horrible movie of all time.
Me, someone who enjoys Sonic 06.
(If the trailer is only 50 seconds and was being worked on a few weeks ago, I think this is for SXSW. I can't fucking wait.)
Full CGI movie would be significantly cheaper
Not necessarily. Animated movies have a wide range of possible budgets, just like live-action films. If Paramount aims for extremely high-fidelity CG animation like Pixar and Dreamworks, they would probably spend more than whatever they're spending on the live-action hybrid. If they go cheap like Sony Animation and Illumination films, then it would probably be slightly cheaper, depending on what the budget for this movie is.