Box Office: ‘Street Fighter’ Scores $13 Million Debut as ‘You Can See Everything’ Opens at No. 2 With $5.5 Million on Friday — SkimNews
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- Street Fighter opened at No. 1 with $13 million Friday from 3,575 North American theaters, projecting a $31 million weekend for Paramount's third attempt at the Capcom IP.
- 'You Can See Everything' grossed $5.54 million Friday from 855 theaters, tracking toward $12.45 million for the weekend and surpassing Amazon MGM's 'Melania' as the biggest opening for a non-music or concert documentary in over a decade.
- The A24 documentary massively exceeded its initial $7-8 million opening weekend projections, with Deadline and the NYT both treating it as the weekend's breakout story rather than Street Fighter.
- Focus Features' 'Sense and Sensibility' remake placed third with $3.3 million Friday from 2,545 theaters, targeting a $6.7 million opening weekend — a modest debut for Georgia Oakley's adaptation starring Daisy Edgar-Jones and Esmé Creed-Miles.
- Disney's 'Whalefall' survival thriller took fourth with $3 million Friday from 2,065 locations, projecting a $7 million weekend for the Austin Abrams-led film about a scuba diver swallowed by a sperm whale.
- Universal's 'Other Mommy' held fifth with $2.5 million Friday, pushing its cumulative domestic gross to $44.35 million in its second weekend.
- Street Fighter's $13 million Friday marks a major rebound for the franchise after 2009's 'The Legend of Chun-Li' earned just $12.8 million total against a $50 million budget, though the 1994 Van Damme original grossed $100 million unadjusted.
Why it matters: The A24 Elizabeth Holmes documentary's $12.45 million tracking more than doubles its initial $7-8 million estimate and unseats Amazon MGM's 'Melania' ($7.1 million) as the biggest non-music/concert doc opening in over a decade — a milestone that Deadline and the New York Times both led their coverage with, while Variety framed Street Fighter as the headline. For A24, that kind of overperformance against conservative tracking gives the distributor a genuine awards-season foothold outside its typical scripted releases.
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