Street Fighter Scores $31M, Holmes Doc Stuns With $12M+ — SkimNews
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- Street Fighter opened to $31M, 19% behind Mortal Kombat 2's $38.5M debut and under Paramount's hopes, earning a B- CinemaScore with 45% of its audience over-35 male — the same demo the source blames for cannibalizing Whalefall.
- You Can See Everything (A24) is charting $12-14M at 855 screens — the second-best documentary opening ever after 2004's Fahrenheit 9/11 ($23.9M) — with 1,300 sellouts, lines around the block at NYC's Village East and Nashville's Belcourt, a 91% definite recommend, and a 98% positive PostTrak score.
- Whalefall (20th Century Studios) opened to just $7.5M against its $60M budget, earning a B CinemaScore as the over-25 male and female audience it was chasing went to Holmes or Street Fighter instead.
- Sense and Sensibility (Focus Features) bowed to $6.7M with an A- CinemaScore — half a grade below Ang Lee's 1995 Oscar-winning predecessor — driven by an 84% female-skewing 18-34 demo pulled in by Daisy Edgar-Jones.
- The weekend overall is tracking ~$101M, +49% ahead of last year's 42nd frame led by Black Phone 2, and the third-best 42nd weekend post-Covid after 2022's $113.6M and 2021's $109.2M.
- Netflix reported box office grosses for Cannes winner La Bola Negra with an estimated $68.8K per-screen average across four NYC/LA theaters (~$275K 3-day), positioning the $5M Cannes acquisition as the streamer's leading awards contender.
- Clockwork's re-release of Ken Russell's 1971 NC-17 The Devils landed at No. 11 with $1.64M at 350 theaters — outgrossing Warner Bros' Tom Cruise title Digger in its third weekend at 786 sites with $710K.
Why it matters: A24's You Can See Everything hit the second-largest documentary opening ever ($12-14M), proving the secret Telluride premiere can mint discoveries outside the IP machine — eight years after Theranos cratered, Nathan Fielder's cult base delivered 1,300 sellouts. Meanwhile, 20th Century's $60M Whalefall opened to just $7.5M as the over-25 male demo it was chasing went to Holmes or Street Fighter instead.
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