'Street Fighter' Opens to $31M as 'Whalefall' Stumbles

· Entertainment · United States

Paramount/Legendary/Capcom's video-game adaptation "Street Fighter" opened to $31 million in its first weekend, drawing a largely older male audience, according to Saturday box office estimates. The debut gave the October box office a healthy third weekend, even as 20th Century Studios' $60 million-budget "Whalefall" flopped with only a $7.5 million opening. The documentary "You Can See Everything" also performed strongly, with lines around the block and a $12 million-plus start described as a docu milestone. The results are an early signal of how the fall marketplace is separating wide-audience genre releases from costly prestige bets.

Why it matters：Opening-weekend numbers set expectations for the rest of the fall slate, showing that game-based IP can pull older male audiences while a big-budget creature feature can miss badly.

Key points

  • 'Street Fighter' opened to $31M, skewing toward older male moviegoers.
  • 'Whalefall,' budgeted at $60M, managed only a $7.5M opening.
  • Documentary 'You Can See Everything' passed $12M in a strong docu debut.

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