‘Street Fighter’ Punches $4M In U.S. Previews, ‘You Can See Everything’ $2M – Box Office Update — SkimNews
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- Street Fighter (Paramount/Legendary, PG-13, co-financed by Legendary and Capcom) pulled approximately $4M in Thursday previews starting at 2 p.m. with a 7 p.m. fan showtime, tracking toward a $30M-plus opening against a net $82M production budget; the film holds a 47% Rotten Tomatoes critic score and is competing with a mid-fall school break (Rentrak: 21% K-12 schools off, 7% colleges).
- You Can See Everything (A24), a three-hour documentary co-directed by Lance Oppenheim and Nathan Fielder, filed around $2M in previews from 3 p.m. showtimes; shot over four years for under $10M with a marketing budget also under $10M, it holds a 100% fresh RT critic score and 98% audience score and is tracking to potentially surpass Amazon MGM Studios' Melania's $7.1M opening — the decade's best documentary start — to open north of $10M.
- Street Fighter's $4M preview estimate falls under the $5.2M Thursday posted by New Line's R-rated Mortal Kombat 2 earlier this year, despite Street Fighter debuting in arcades in 1987 (five years before Mortal Kombat); Mortal Kombat 2 opened to $38.5M over its first three days.
- You Can See Everything follows Theranos founder Elizabeth Holmes before her stint in federal prison; Oppenheim's prior film, Primetime, posted $2.7M previews on the way to an $18.8M opening this fall.
- Sense & Sensibility (Focus Features, 76% fresh) and Whalefall (20th Century Studios, based on the Daniel Kraus thriller novel, 70% fresh) each held 2 p.m. previews estimated around $1M, tracking toward $8M and north-of-$11M weekends, respectively.
Why it matters: A24's 'You Can See Everything' arriving on a perfect Rotten Tomatoes score and flirting with a $10M-plus opening would topple Amazon MGM's 'Melania' as the decade's best documentary debut — a record most outlets covering the weekend aren't framing as the lead story. For Paramount/Legendary, a sub-$5M preview against Mortal Kombat 2's $5.2M puts pressure on the film's path to profitability on an $82M net budget.
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