‘Street Fighter’ Leads Box Office With $51 Million Global Opening as ‘Whalefall’ Gets Beached With $17.5 Million

Paramount/Legendary's "Street Fighter" has taken the box office by storm with a $31 million domestic and $51 million global opening this weekend, marking a middling start for the $82 million co-production with Capcom. The video game film stands at a B- on CinemaScore, aligning with the 1994 "Street Fighter" starring Jean Claude Van Damme and the Rotten Tomatoes scores of 40% critics and 80% audience.

"Street Fighter" is bracing for competition against Warner Bros./DC's "Clayface" the following weekend, which aims to attract both comic book fans and general horror enthusiasts. Vice, "Whalefall," a survival thriller starring Austin Abrams as a scuba diver swallowed by a whale, has made a beached opening of $17.5 million worldwide and $8 million domestically, despite positive reviews.

Possessing a B CinemaScore and Rotten Tomatoes scores of 71% critics and 81% audience, word-of-mouth may aid the film in overcoming its losses in the coming weeks. Currently, the second-highest opening film is A24's documentary "You Can See Everything," which soared to $15 million from just 855 screens, marking the highest opening for a documentary in at least 13 years.