Street Fighter Punches $4M in U.S. Previews — SkimNews
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- Street Fighter (Paramount/Legendary, PG-13, based on Capcom's 1987 video game) earned ~$4M in U.S. previews from 2PM showtimes plus a fan event, with the pic tracking toward a $30M-plus opening against an $82M net budget co-financed with Capcom.
- Street Fighter's ~$4M preview estimate trails New Line's R-rated Mortal Kombat 2 ($5.2M Thursday previews in May, 3-day of $38.5M) but beat Paramount's pre-Covid Sonic the Hedgehog ($3M previews, $58M 3-day over Presidents Day 2020); critics bruised the film at 47% on Rotten Tomatoes.
- You Can See Everything (A24, 3-hour documentary co-directed by Lance Oppenheim and host Nathan Fielder, shot over four years for under $10M) earned ~$2M in previews from 3PM showtimes, with confidence growing for a north-of-$10M opening that would top Amazon MGM's Melania's $7.1M documentary opening record.
- Sense & Sensibility (Focus Features) and Whalefall (20th Century Studios, based on Daniel Kraus's novel) each posted roughly $1M in 2PM previews, tracking toward ~$8M and north-of-$11M weekend openings respectively; Sense & Sensibility is 76% fresh and Whalefall 70% fresh on Rotten Tomatoes.
- A mid-fall school break (Rentrak: 21% of K-12 schools off, 7% of colleges off) is expected to lift traffic across all four titles this weekend, with official studio-reported figures due Friday morning.
Why it matters: Paramount/Legendary is staking a big-budget video game adaptation on a PG-13 cut that underperformed Mortal Kombat 2's previews but beat Sonic's — a mixed signal for the $82M film's path to profitability. Meanwhile A24's You Can See Everything at ~$2M in doc previews has a real shot at unseating Melania's documentary opening record, a notable result for a sub-$20M-budget film with no IP or stars beyond its host.
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