{"id":885084,"date":"2026-10-17T03:30:10","date_gmt":"2026-10-17T03:30:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/885084\/"},"modified":"2026-10-17T03:30:10","modified_gmt":"2026-10-17T03:30:10","slug":"box-office-street-fighter-eyes-30m-you-can-see-everything-12m-opening","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/885084\/","title":{"rendered":"Box Office: ‘Street Fighter’ Eyes $30M, ‘You Can See Everything’ $12M Opening"},"content":{"rendered":"

\n\tFRIDAY PM UPDATE: Street Fighter<\/a> is currently coming in at the lower end of expectations with a $30M opening after a $12.5M Friday (including previews) at 3,575 theaters, which includes previews. Hopefully Saturday can keep it together with family traffic. Note, the only MLB playoff game this weekend is between Tampa Bay and the Cleveland Guardians, so don\u2019t expect a slowdown at the box office.<\/p>\n

\n\tInteresting to note that the opening here alone is close to what the original 1994 take on the Capcom game finaled at which was $33.4M (unadjusted for inflation). That pic starred Jean-Claude Van Damme and opened to $6.8M via Universal. <\/p>\n

\n\tThe first Legendary title under its new deal with Paramount had a big social media universe grab heading into the weekend with 920.6M from TikTok, YouTube, Instagram, Facebook and X. That\u2019s bigger than other videogame movies, Legendary\u2019s Minecraft Movie (772.4M), Mortal Kombat 2 (452.6M) and Five Nights at Freddy\u2018s (488.5M). This is all according to RelishMix. One of the big early September pushes for Street Fighter was a novel playable \u201cThe Street Fighter Combo Trailer\u201d which launched on YouTube Playables, which placed film footage inside a virtual arcade cabinet and utilized game-style mechanics.<\/p>\n

\n\tThe Rotten Tomatoes audience score for Street Fighter is currently at 80%, not far from the 86% of Mortal Kombat 2, which was rated-R, but based on a similar martial arts video game born during the Gen X era. <\/p>\n

\n\tA24\u2019s You Can See Everything<\/a> with a 99% RT audience score and an expected opening around $12M after a $5.3M Friday (including previews) at 885 theaters is bound to unseat Melania which debuted to $7.1M and was called the best opening for a documentary in ten years. The intel we have shows that You Can See Everything is the second best opening for a documentary in the past 17 years (not counting concert films), behind 2004\u2019s Fahrenheit 9\/11 ($23.9M) and ahead of Disney\u2019s 2012 Chimpanzee at $10.6M. The Nathan Fielder and Lance Oppenheim-directed trippy non-fiction film follows Theranos architect Elizabeth Holmes and her partner Billy Evans in the run-up to the former\u2019s stay in a federal prison.<\/p>\n

\n\tUniversal Blumhouse Atomic Monster\u2019s Other Mommy at 3,370 theaters is posting a second Friday of $2.4M and second weekend of $7.4M in third, -73%, for a running cume of $43.9M. That drop after last weekend\u2019s D+ CinemaScore is to be expected. <\/p>\n

\n\tGetting beached is 20th Century Studio\u2019s Whalefall<\/a> with a $2.6M Friday (including previews) and $6M-$7M opening, far below the $11M that tracking was spotting. Many enjoy watching Austin Abrams getting swallowed by zombies, Zach Cregger style. No one wants to watch him go through a Pinocchio experience, meaning being eaten by a whale. The audience score is 82% on RT.<\/p>\n

\n\tFocus Features\u2019 Sense & Sensibility at 2,545 sites is seeing a Friday of $3M, and 3-day of $6M. That result is just $600K shy of the $6.6M that Focus\u2019 Conclave opened to, but that was in fewer theaters, that being 1,753. No RT audience score yet. The previous 1995 Ang Lee-directed take of the Jane Austen classic was a platform release back in the day, but legged its way to a $43.4M domestic final.<\/p>\n

\n\tUPDATE after exclusive: Paramount\/Legendary\/Capcom\u2019s Street Fighter rang up exactly what we saw last night, $4 million in previews, while A24\u2019s zany Elizabeth Holmes documentary You Can See Everything filed $1.75M, but with awesome exits (e.g., 92% definite recommend, 100% positive score).<\/p>\n

\n\t20th Century Studios\u2019 Whalefall was at $900,000 from Thursday\u2019s showtimes, while Focus Features\u2019 Sense & Sensibility revival in all previews (not just last night) did $1.15M.<\/p>\n

\n\tYou Can See Everything drew 50-50 male-female while the Gen-Z\u2019ers came out in bulk at 75% under 35 in Los Angeles and New York last night. Letterboxd is now up to 4.7 and ranking among the top 50 movies of all time.<\/p>\n

\n\tWhalefall, which was shot in California for a net $60M, follows Jay Gardiner (Austin Abrams), who after the death of his father (Josh Brolin) goes diving off the central coast in search of his remains and is swallowed by a massive sperm whale. While trapped inside its belly with only one hour of oxygen left, Jay comes to realize that the hard-earned lessons his father imparted may be the key to his escape.<\/p>\n

\n\tThe thriller is booked at 3,065 theatres including 500 Premium Large Format screens and 250 D-Box\/Motion screens. Last night\u2019s previews are far below the $2M made by the recent fall thriller Heart of the Beast, which went on to open to $20M (granted, that one starred Brad Pitt).<\/p>\n

\n\tThe Los Angeles Dodgers aren\u2019t going to the World Series again this year as the Milwaukee Brewers swept them out of the National League Championship Series last night. Tampa Bay and Cleveland are still duking it out in the ALCS with games tonight and Saturday. Translation: This year\u2019s World Series won\u2019t have any impact on box office capitals New York City and L.A.<\/p>\n

\n\tBelow is this week\u2019s top 5:<\/p>\n

\n\t1.) Other Mommy (Uni) 3,365 theaters, Wk $36.5M\/Wk 1<\/p>\n

\n\t2.) Verity (AMZ) 3,572 theaters, Wk $17.5M (-59%), Total $59.9M\/Wk 2<\/p>\n

\n\t3.) Resident Evil (Sony) 3,085 theaters, Wk $12.8M (-28%), Total $142.9M\/Wk 4<\/p>\n

\n\t4.) Heart of the Beast (Par) 3,365 theaters, Wk $10.9M (-28%), Total $53.4M\/Wk 3<\/p>\n

\n\t5.) Forgotten Island (Uni) 2,898 theaters, Wk $7.09M (-24%), Total $32.8M\/Wk 3<\/p>\n

\n\tPREVIOUSLY, Thursday EXCLUSIVE: Paramount\/Legendary\u2019s PG-13 take of the Capcom video game Street Fighter is off to a solid start Thursday night with around $4 million after showtimes that began at 2 p.m. (further boosted by a 7 p.m. fan showtime). The expectation is for the fisticuffs feature to open north of $30M; the pic cost a net $82M co-financed by Legendary and Capcom.<\/p>\n

\n\tPer sources, Street Figther\u2018s preview estimate is under the $5.2M Thursday made by New Line\u2019s R-rated Mortal Kombat 2, based on the Midway video game and which bowed in mid-May. One of the main differences between the two martial arts video games is that Street Fighter debuted in 1987, while Mortal Kombat followed in pizza parlors and arcades in 1992.<\/p>\n

\n\tMortal Kombat 2 earlier this year had previews that began at 3 p.m. with a first Friday of $16.8M and 3-day of $38.5M. There\u2019s a mid-fall break going on now, which will hopefully trigger traffic to Street Fighter; Rentrak reports 21% K-12 schools off and 7% colleges. Street Fighter\u2018s previews are also ahead of Paramount\u2019s 2020 pre-Covid Sonic the Hedgehog at $3M, leading to a first Friday of $20.9M and 3-day of $58M. However, that pic played over the Presidents Day holiday frame and was rated PG. Critics bruised Street Fighter with 47% on Rotten Tomatoes.<\/p>\n

\n\tImpressive for the anomaly that it is out of the gate, the three-hour documentary You Can See Everything from A24 is filing around $2M in previews that began at 3 p.m. By comparison, the last documentary to post the decade\u2019s best start at the domestic box office, Amazon MGM Studios\u2019 Melania, bowed to $7.1M sans previews.<\/p>\n

\n\tLance Oppenheim co-directed You Can See Everything with the doc\u2019s host Nathan Fielder, who follows fallen Theranos founder Elizabeth Holmes before her stint in federal prison. Oppenheim\u2019s previous movie, also his first narrative feature, this fall\u2019s Primetime, posted previews of $2.7M; those began at 4 p.m. and turned into an $18.8M opening. Conservative estimates heading into this weekend had You Can See Everything in the high single-digit range, but confidence is growing that this critically acclaimed (100% fresh RT and 98% RT audience score) movie can open to north of $10M, which would outstrip Melania\u2018s previous opening domestic record for a documentary. You Can See Everything was shot over four years and cost less than $10M, with a marketing budget that was also under $10M.<\/p>\n

\n\tRELATED: \u2018You Can See Everything\u2019 Directors On Filming Complex Doc: \u201cIf We Can\u2019t Agree On What\u2019s Happening, There\u2019s Something There\u201d \u2013 NYFF<\/a><\/p>\n

\n\tFocus Features\u2019 Sense & Sensibility and 20th Century Studios\u2019 Whalefall also held previews today, both beginning at 2 p.m.; sources estimate they\u2019re around $1M apiece. We will have official studio reported figures Friday AM.<\/p>\n

\n\tSense & Sensibility is expected to open around $8M, while Whalefall, based on the Daniel Kraus thriller novel, is eyeing a Friday-Sunday that\u2019s north of $11M. Sense & Sensibility is 76% fresh with critics, while Whalefall stands at 70% fresh.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"FRIDAY PM UPDATE: Street Fighter is currently coming in at the lower end of expectations with a $30M…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":885085,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[52],"tags":[88,206,371465,42958,40681,355314],"class_list":["post-885084","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-movies","tag-entertainment","tag-movies","tag-sense-sensiblity","tag-street-fighter","tag-whalefall","tag-you-can-see-everything"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/885084","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=885084"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/885084\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/885085"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=885084"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=885084"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=885084"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}