Street Fighter Opens No. 1 With $31 Million as Documentary Earns $15 Million

Paramount’s Street Fighter opened at No. 1 with about $31 million domestically over the weekend of Oct. 16–18, 2026, according to a Rotten Tomatoes weekend report published Oct. 18. A24’s documentary You Can See Everything placed second with $15 million from 855 theaters.

The domestic figure fell inside the $27 million to $35 million range that ComicBookMovie forecast on Oct. 14. The $51 million worldwide total fell short of the roughly $70 million global figure that the same outlet had projected. The documentary opened at nearly double its pre-weekend projection, while the video game adaptation finished below its global forecast. It also ranks as the second-biggest documentary opening of all time, excluding concert films, according to JoBlo and Rotten Tomatoes.

Street Fighter Lands Within Its Domestic Range but Below Its Global Figure

ComicBookMovie’s Oct. 14 forecast put the domestic opening at $27 million to $35 million from about 3,500 North American theaters. It noted that earlier estimates had pointed to a $25 million debut. The $31 million result landed inside that range.

Overseas markets added about $20 million, roughly 39 percent of the $51 million worldwide total, according to JoBlo. Rotten Tomatoes puts the worldwide total at just over $51 million. That leaves the global figure about $19 million below the roughly $70 million that ComicBookMovie projected.

The reported budget differs by source. ComicBookMovie reports $82 million, excluding prints and advertising. Rotten Tomatoes describes a $100 million-plus production. Against the lower number, the worldwide total equals about 62 percent of production cost.

Rotten Tomatoes compares the film with the 1994 Street Fighter, which earned just under $100 million worldwide, and with Mortal Kombat (1995), which earned $122.1 million.

Reported Budget
ComicBookMovie reports Street Fighter’s production budget at $82 million, excluding prints and advertising. Rotten Tomatoes describes a budget of $100 million or more.

You Can See Everything Opens Near Double Its Projection

TheWrap’s Oct. 14 preview projected an opening of at least $8 million from about 800 locations, with a per-theater average of at least $10,000. The film instead took $15 million from 855 theaters, an average of about $17,500 per screen, according to JoBlo.

TheWrap reported the film’s combined marketing and production cost at under $20 million, so the opening is more than three-quarters of that figure. Rotten Tomatoes describes it as A24’s fourth-best opening, behind Backrooms, Civil War and Primetime, and says it opened in fewer than 1,000 theaters.

The film’s opening sits behind Michael Moore’s Fahrenheit 9/11 in the documentary ranking, and Rotten Tomatoes says the 2004 film opened to over $23 million. Before the weekend, TheWrap named Amazon MGM’s Melania as the film that currently holds the biggest opening for a non-music documentary since the COVID-19 pandemic. Melania opened in February with $7.1 million and went on to earn $16.3 million. TheWrap also said clearing $22 million would make the film the highest-grossing non-music documentary since Won’t You Be My Neighbor, which took $22.4 million in 2018.

How Overseas Sales and Screen Counts Shape the Two Results

About 39 percent of Street Fighter’s worldwide total came from overseas markets, according to JoBlo. The domestic opening of $31 million makes up roughly 61 percent of the $51 million worldwide figure.

The documentary, about Elizabeth Holmes and made by Nathan Fielder and Lance Oppenheim, was released by A24 on 855 screens, and its $15 million came from that footprint. JoBlo puts the per-screen average at about $17,500, against TheWrap’s projected average of at least $10,000 per theater.

Taken together, the two films are measured in different ways. Street Fighter’s result is set against a worldwide figure and a budget that the sources report differently. The documentary’s result is set against a domestic opening, a per-screen average and a marketing and production cost that TheWrap reported as under $20 million.

The documentary opened at nearly double its pre-weekend projection, while the video game adaptation finished below its global forecast.

Second-Weekend Outlook and What Remains Unconfirmed

Rotten Tomatoes suggests Street Fighter could fall quickly and finish between $65 million and $75 million. The same report cites Mortal Kombat II, which opened earlier this year to $38.5 million and then floundered, just barely doubling that opening, as a comparison.

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