‘Street Fighter’ Socks $31M, ‘You Can See Everything’ Has Lines Around The Block With $12M+ Docu Milestone – Saturday Update — SkimNews
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- Street Fighter (Paramount/Legendary/Capcom) opens to $31M at 3,575 theaters, down 19% from Mortal Kombat 2's $38.5M debut, with a B- CinemaScore and Paramount reportedly hoping for more
- You Can See Everything — A24's 3-hour Elizabeth Holmes documentary — opens to $12M-$14M at 855 screens, the second-best documentary opening ever behind 2004's Fahrenheit 9/11 ($23.9M), with 1,300 reported sellouts and lines around the block in NYC and Nashville
- Nathan Fielder — the documentary's co-director and star whose Instagram recently hit 1M fans — is driving its online reach, with RelishMix reporting fans framing the doc as his "career-culmination moment" and marveling it "can be cut, scored, and lit like a psychological horror film"
- Whalefall (20th Century) flops with a $7.5M opening against a $60M production budget and a B CinemaScore, its over-25 audience diverted by Street Fighter and the Holmes doc — though the film was shot in California, providing local jobs
- Sense and Sensibility (Focus Features, starring Daisy Edgar-Jones, directed by Georgia Oakley) debuts 5th with $6.7M and an A- CinemaScore, drawing an 84% female crowd — half a grade below the 1995 Ang Lee/Emma Thompson version's A
- The overall weekend lands at $101M, up 49% from last year's same frame led by Black Phone 2 — the third-best 42nd weekend post-Covid, behind 2022 ($113.6M) and 2021 ($109.2M)
- Netflix's La Bola Negra — picked up for ~$5M out of Cannes — opens in 4 theaters at a $68.8K per-screen average, the third-best limited opening of the year after A24's The Moment and The History of Concrete
Why it matters: A24's doc pulling $12M-$14M at just 855 screens marks the second-best documentary opening in box office history, proving nonfiction can scale beyond festival circuits when word-of-mouth lands. Meanwhile Street Fighter's 19% drop from Mortal Kombat 2's debut shows even established IP needs more than brand recognition to move the needle.
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