"Street Fighter" socks $4 million in previews as "You Can See Everything" takes in $1.7 million.
"Hess and Sensibility" and "Bal Nahang" will also enter the competition at the box office this weekend.
Street Fighter is pulling its weight as it makes its box office debut, with fellow newcomers like the Elizabeth Holmes documentary You Can See Everything .
Paramount Pictures is releasing Street Fighter in more than 3,500 North American theaters, and the film has grossed $4 million from Thursday previews. With an $82 million production budget, the studio is opening Kitao Sakurai's film in the mid-$30 million range domestically. Noah Centino, Andrew Cudgee and Kalina Liang star in the film, which adapts the Capcom video game centered on a fighting tournament.
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Street Fighter is buzzing with critics, holding a 45% approval rating on Rotten Tomatoes with an audience score of 82. Critic Frank Scheck, in his review for The Hollywood Reporter, called the film "a jumbled mess" and "only sporadically" entertaining.
Off to an impressive start for a documentary is A24's You Can See Everything, which collected $1.7 million from Thursday previews. Nathan Fielder and Lance Oppenheim's $5 million film about the life of Theranos founder Holmes before his prison term opened in 855 North American theaters. The project could surpass the $7 million Melania earned in its opening weekend earlier this year, when it launched as the highest-grossing non-musical documentary in more than a decade.
You can see everything, with a 100% rating from critics on Rotten Tomatoes and a 99 from audiences, it has received a stunning reception. In her review for THR, critic Angie Hahn calls it "smart, funny and full of surprises."
Focus Features' Sense and Sensibility moves to 2,436 locations in North America and earned $1.1 million from Thursday previews. Focus is projecting an $8 million opening for director Georgia Oakley's $20 million-plus adaptation of Jane Austen's enduring novel. Daisy Edgar Jones and Esme Creed Miles star as the Dashwood sisters, who pursue life and love after their father's death. Ang Lee directed the Oscar-winning 1995 film adaptation starring Emma Thompson.
The latest Sense and Sensibility has a 77% approval rating on Rotten Tomatoes. Rooney writes that the film "rarely leaves the long shadow of Ang Lee's enchanting 1995 retelling".
Looking to generate buzz from 3,065 locations in North America, 20th Century Studios' Whalefall follows as director Brian Duffield's thriller sold $900,000 in Thursday previews. The studio expects an opening of between $10 million and $12 million for the $60 million film, which is based on Daniel Krauss' novel 2023.
Austin Abrams, who directed last month's Resident Evil, stars as a diver who is swallowed by a sperm whale while searching for the remains of his late father (Josh Brolin). Whalefall has a 71 percent approval rating on Rotten Tomatoes, and THR senior film critic David Rooney noted in his review that the film "isn't so crazy that it's very entertaining."