UPDATE (Oct. 18, 2026, 10:52 p.m. CT): This story now includes Street Fighter’s estimated $20.1 million international opening, its $51.1 million worldwide total, and $5.4 million from IMAX screens.
Street Fighter won its opening weekend at the domestic box office. Deadline’s Sunday update holds the Paramount, Legendary and Capcom film at an estimated $31 million from 3,575 theaters in the U.S. and Canada. Those are Sunday estimates, and studios report actual weekend grosses on Monday.
Deadline’s chart breaks the estimate into $13 million on Friday, a figure that includes $4 million from Thursday previews, then $10.8 million on Saturday and a projected $7.2 million on Sunday. Its Friday-night projection had the opening closer to $30 million, at what Deadline called the lower end of expectations.
$51.1 million worldwide
Overseas, the film added an estimated $20.1 million from 65 international markets, Boxoffice Pro reports, for a global start of $51.1 million. The United Kingdom led with $3.3 million, followed by Mexico at $1.8 million and Australia at $1.6 million.
The film was shot for Imax, and the format brought in $5.4 million in North America, or 18% of the domestic opening, according to Boxoffice Pro. Deadline’s global report adds $2.3 million from 471 Imax screens abroad. Deadline also says a worldwide opening of around $70 million had been hoped for, but notes the international start runs 4% ahead of Mortal Kombat II in comparable markets.
Solid, but short of Mortal Kombat II at home
Domestically, Deadline puts the estimated start 19% below the $38.5 million opening of Mortal Kombat II in May, and says Paramount had hoped for more. The outlet reports a net budget of $82 million, co-financed by Legendary and Capcom, and is told the film will be fine once ancillary revenue is counted. It is also the first Legendary release under the company’s new deal with Paramount.
Audience reaction is middling. Moviegoers gave the film a B- CinemaScore, below the B+ for 2021’s Mortal Kombat and the B for Mortal Kombat II. Men over 35 made up 45% of the crowd, while parents and kids under 12 accounted for just 11%, according to Deadline. Premium large-format and Imax screens brought in 58% of the weekend’s business.
Even the estimated opening comes close to the entire domestic run of the 1994 Street Fighter film with Jean-Claude Van Damme, which finished at $33.4 million before adjusting for inflation, Deadline notes.
The fighting-game adaptation arrives as another Capcom property is still drawing crowds. Sony’s Resident Evil, now in its fifth weekend, is estimated at $5.5 million for seventh place and a $148.5 million domestic total, per Deadline’s chart. Its worldwide run, which had already climbed past an estimated $320 million, now stands at $361.1 million, Deadline reports.
Deadline estimates the overall weekend at $107 million, up 58% from the same weekend a year ago. A24’s documentary You Can See Everything finished second with an estimated $15 million from 855 theaters, which Deadline calls the second-best opening ever for a documentary after Fahrenheit 9/11.
