Movie Monday: ‘Street Fighter’ Gives the Box Office an Uppercut

The box office’s record-breaking summer was powered by a few huge movies: Spider-Man: Brand New Day, The Odyssey, et cetera.

But as we creep through October, it’s a whole new box-office ball game.

Four newcomers landed in the top five this weekend. Street Fighter led the way with an estimated $31 million in North America, rumbling to the top spot like a (M.) bison. Based on a popular video game franchise, Street Fighter vacuumed up $20.1 million overseas, too, pushing its worldwide gross to $51.1 million. (No word how the film did in the country of Shadaloo.)

You Can See Everything, a documentary centered on Theranos founder Elizabeth Holmes, earned a surprise second-place finish with a $15 million weekend (more than double what the film was expected to make). If all that cash went to Holmes herself—which it will not—the jailed tech tycoon would then owe just another $437 million to the investors she’s convicted of defrauding. Maybe Nathan Fielder can give her a few legal business ideas to help bridge that gap.

The top five’s lone holdover is Other Mommy, which finished third with nearly $8.4 million. That marks a steep 70% drop over its $27.8 million opening. But no matter: The horror flick has now earned $44.9 million since its release. Distributor Universal Pictures will certainly be giving the film a nice Mother’s Day card come May.

Whalefall swallowed about $8 million to swim into fourth place. That’s a bit less than most prognosticators expected. Given that the film cost about $60 million to create, the movie’s slow start might leave its makers … blubbering.

Sense and Sensibility, the latest remake of Jane Austen’s beloved 1811 novel, closed out the top five with nearly $7.3 million. The film did a little better overseas, sweeping up $11.3 million in international markets. That brings its grand total to $18.5 million. Given that Sense and Sensibility’s price tag was just an estimated $25 million, the period drama is fairly close to solvency and will likely not need to be forced into an unwanted marriage. 

Flywheel: Ignition of the Soul had a good-news, bad-news sort of weekend. On the upside, this Brazilian remake of Alex Kendrick’s 2003 film Flywheel earned far more than the $37,000 its forebear did. Alas, the estimated $200,000 that Ignition of the Soul collected was good for just 22^nd place.