“Street Fighter” blasted its way to the top of the box office in a weekend full of new releases, taking on fellow openers “Sense and Sensibility,” “Whalefall” and “You Can See Everything.”
The Paramount Pictures film grossed $13 million in 3,575 North American theaters on Friday. It’s a good start for the action film, which is expected to gross $31 million by Sunday.
“Street Fighter,” directed by Kitao Sakurai, stars Noah Centineo and Andrew Koji as two estranged fighters in the ’90s who are recruited to compete in a tournament that requires them to compete against each other. Based on the Capcom video game series, this iteration of “Street Fighter” is the third go-around for the IP – the first live-action film, released in 1994 and starring Jean-Claude Van Damme, was a box office success grossing $100 million (not adjusted for inflation), while 2009’s “Street Fighter: The Legend of Chun-Li” only grossed 12.8 million dollars against a budget of 50 million dollars, becoming a major failure for 20th century.
Elizabeth Holmes’ high-profile documentary, A24’s “You Can See Everything,” landed in second place on Friday, with $5.54 million in revenue Friday from 855 North American theaters. Competing estimates have the film expected to gross $12.45 million by Sunday, topping initial estimates of a $7 million to $8 million opening weekend. The documentary is expected to surpass Amazon MGM’s “Melania,” which notched the biggest opening for a nonmusic or concert documentary in more than a decade with $7.1 million from 1,778 theaters.
In this lively documentary, comedian Nathan Fielder and “Primetime” filmmaker Lance Oppenheim worked quietly for more than three years on the film, which offers an unhinged look at the Theranos founder a month before she began an 11-year prison sentence for defrauding investors.
Just ahead of “Whalefall,” Focus Features’ “Sense and Sensibility” grossed $3.3 million Friday in 2,545 North American theaters, good enough for third place. The Georgia Oakley-directed remake of Jane Austen’s “Sense and Sensibility” is aiming for a $6.7 million opening weekend.
Daisy Edgar-Jones and Esmé Creed-Miles star in the latest adaptation as sisters Elinor and Marianne Dashwood, who navigate love, loss and financial uncertainty as they are forced to leave their family estate in Sussex. Austen’s classic has been adapted for the big screen several times, the most notable being the 1995 film starring Emma Thompson and Kate Winslet, which was both a critical and commercial success.
Disney’s survival thriller “Whalefall” took fourth place Friday with $3 million from 2,065 locations. Rival estimates expect the survival thriller to gross $7 million by Sunday. Directed by Brian Duffield, “Whalefall” follows a diver (Austin Abrams) who is swallowed by a sperm whale and has only an hour of oxygen left in his tank as he searches for how to escape.
Finally, in fifth place was Universal’s “Other Mommy.” The supernatural horror grossed $2.5 million on Friday and is expected to gross another $7.85 million by Sunday, bringing its cumulative gross to $44.35 million.
Based on Josh Malerman’s 2024 novel “Incidents Around the House,” the horror film follows a paranormal entity who takes the appearance of a young girl’s mother and begins haunting their home. Chastain plays Ursula, the real mom, but also the titular “Other Mommy,” a terrifying entity who resembles Ursula.
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