Box Office: ‘Street Fighter’ Aims for $30 Million Opening, ‘You Can See Everything’ Could Score $8 Million Start — SkimNews
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- Street Fighter is targeting a $25 million to $35 million opening from 3,500 North American theaters, with the $82 million production co-financed by Legendary and Capcom and Paramount only on the hook for distribution; overseas it is projected at $35 million from 65 markets.
- Whalefall, Disney's $60 million survival thriller directed by Brian Duffield and starring Austin Abrams as a scuba diver swallowed by a sperm whale, is projected to land second with $10 million to $12 million from 3,065 venues.
- You Can See Everything, A24's $7 million Elizabeth Holmes documentary directed by Nathan Fielder and Lance Oppenheim, is aiming for $7 million to $8 million from just 800 theaters and holds a 100% Rotten Tomatoes score; exhibitors cite Amazon MGM's $40 million 'Melania' doc as a benchmark after it opened to $7.1 million earlier this year.
- Sense and Sensibility, Focus Features' $25 million Jane Austen remake starring Daisy Edgar-Jones and Esmé Creed-Miles as the Dashwood sisters, is positioned as counterprogramming against the male-skewing 'Street Fighter' and 'Whalefall' with a $5 million to $8 million target from 2,436 screens.
- October's box office has been uneven so far, with Tom Cruise's 'Digger' and Aaron Sorkin's Facebook drama 'The Social Reckoning' flopping while Colleen Hoover adaptation 'Verity' and 'Other Mommy' are shaping up as modest wins — a bar that should be easy to clear given last October hit a three-decade low.
Why it matters: Theater operators get four fresh releases this weekend after a string of recent flops, but the heavy lifting falls on 'Street Fighter' and 'Whalefall,' both of which carry budgets ($82M and $60M) that require sustained runs since exhibitors keep roughly half of ticket sales — and last October's three-decade low sets a soft comparison bar to beat.
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