‘Street Fighter’ Wins the Weekend With $31 Million as 50 Cent Gloats

50 Cent wanted it on the record that Street Fighter won. “You know damn well I wasn’t gonna be beat by a damn whale movie LOL,” he wrote on Instagram on Sunday (Oct. 18), per HotNewHipHop, a dig at Whalefall, the 20th Century Studios thriller that opened fourth with an estimated $8 million.

Street Fighter, which Paramount released and Legendary and Capcom co-funded, grossed an estimated $31 million from 3,575 North American theaters and $20.1 million from 65 international markets, a $51.1 million global opening, Deadline reported in its Sunday estimates. That is a clear No. 1 and a miss against the $70 million worldwide start Deadline said had been hoped for. The crowd skewed older: men over 35 were 45% of U.S. ticket buyers, and Deadline says the family audience a PG-13 rating was meant to invite largely didn’t show.

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Kitao Sakurai’s film cost a net $82 million, and Deadline’s sources say it will be fine once ancillary revenue is counted. Critics have been cooler than ticket buyers: IGN counts 41% positive reviews on Rotten Tomatoes against 79% from audiences, via tbreak. For scale, Mortal Kombat II opened to $63 million worldwide earlier this year. Capcom’s other 2026 adaptation is faring better: Zach Cregger’s Resident Evil stands at an estimated $148.5 million domestic, per The Numbers. Watch the Street Fighter trailer below.

The cast has a music side, too. Orville Peck, the country singer who plays Vega, says producers wanted Kylie Minogue, who played Cammy in the 1994 film, for a cameo and he offered to help. “They were having a hard time getting ahold of her or whatever, and I was like, ‘Guys, I can text her,’” he told Queerty, per Deadline. The timing didn’t work, but he left the door open for a sequel: “Maybe the sequel, we’ll see.” Our Balrog explainer has the rest of the soundtrack story, including two new songs by HEALTH.

The documentary that stole the weekend

The weekend’s bigger surprise sat one spot below. A24’s You Can See Everything, the three-hour Elizabeth Holmes documentary co-directed by Nathan Fielder and Lance Oppenheim, opened to an estimated $15 million from 855 theaters, a $17,544 per-theater average, according to The Numbers. Deadline calls it the second-best opening ever for a documentary, behind 2004’s Fahrenheit 9/11 ($23.9 million), and the biggest for any film in fewer than 1,000 theaters since Borat in 2006. A24 premiered it by surprise at Telluride on Sept. 6 and let the memes do the rest. Deadline reports more than 2,000 sellouts and an audience that was 62% ages 18 to 34.

Next weekend is the real test. Deadline says A24 plans to take the documentary wider, and Street Fighter now has to hold its fans in week two. Finals arrive Monday.