Paramount Pictures' Street Fighter vaulted to the top of the domestic box office on Sunday, amid a busy weekend of openings.
The videogame-based action adventure, about estranged street fighters recruited for the World Warrior Tournament only to discover a deadly conspiracy, opened to an estimated $31 million in North American ticket sales.
The movie, one of the first releases from postmerger Skydance, created when Paramount merged with Warner Bros. Discovery earlier this month, topped the international box office with $20.1 million, for a $51.1 million global opening, including $7.7 million on IMAX screens. It stars Andrew Koji, Noah Centineo, and Callina Liang, and is rated PG-13.
But more people seem to be talking about A24's You Can See Everything, the biographical documentary filmed in secret after disgraced Theranos founder Elizabeth Holmes invited a film crew into her home 34 days before reporting to federal prison for conspiracy and fraud. The nearly three-hour movie grossed $15 million from 855 theaters, an average of $17,544 a theater, according to Rentrak. The R-rated film was directed by Nathan Fielder and Lance Oppenheim.
A24 reported more than 2,000 sellout screenings, saying 70% of moviegoers were under age 35, and more than 90% of audiences recommending the movie. Rentrak said it ranks as the No. 2 documentary behind Fahrenheit 9/11, which opened with $23.9 million in 2004, not adjusted for inflation. It has a 99% Rotten Tomatoes rating among critics and a 98% among audiences.
"Sometimes the biggest story at the box office isn't necessarily the movie that finishes at No. 1," according to Rentrak's head of marketplace trends Paul Dergarabedian. Although Street Fighter hauled in a "solid $31 million domestic debut in 3,575 theaters, A24's You Can See Everything is shaping up to be the big story of the weekend."
The film delivered the weekend's strongest economics, wrote Michael Hickey, entertainment and digital Media analyst for StoneX Equity Research. Its opening weekend ticket sales have already surpassed its reported combined production and marketing spend of less than $10 million, and its planned nationwide expansion "provides substantial upside."
This weekend's estimated $103.9 million in domestic ticket sales is 48.2% higher than the same weekend last year, when Universal's horror movie Black Phone 2 debuted at No. 1 with $27.3 million.
Domestic year-to-date box office through Sunday is an estimated $8.219 billion, 20% higher than at the same point in 2025, according to Rentrak. This year's total is down about 8.5% from this point in 2019, when the box office stood at $8.983 billion.
The range of genres, including action, documentary, horror, survival thriller, and literary adaptation, is "giving very different audiences a reason to go out to the movie theater, an important hallmark of the 2026 marketplace," Dergarabedian said.
Going forward, Hickey wrote that Street Fighter's "B- CinemaScore, 69% male audience and concentration among established fans raise front-loading risks ahead of Clayface," Warner Bros.' horror film about a rising Hollywood star who becomes a gruesome revenge-filled monster when scientific ambition strips him of his identity and humanity. Clayface opens in theaters Friday.
Meanwhile, Universal's horror film Other Mommy, about an 8-year-old girl's bond with a sinister entity in her closet, sold an estimated $8.35 million in its second weekend. That brings its domestic total to $44.9 million and its global total to $78.8 million, according to Rentrak.
20th Century Studios' Whalefall, a survival thriller starring Austin Abrams and Josh Brolin about a scuba diver swallowed by an 80-foot, 60-ton sperm whale, opened in fourth place with an estimated $8 million in domestic box office sales and $17.5 million worldwide.
Hickey said the smaller-than-expected global sales in response to the $60 million film remains "too low to support theatrical profitability without unusually durable holds."
Focus Features' Sense and Sensibility, the romantic drama based on the 1795 novel by Jane Austen, debuted in fifth place with $7.25 million domestically and $18.5 million globally.
Sony and Colombia Pictures' The Social Reckoning, about Facebook whistle-blower Frances Haugen divulging secrets from the social media company to ex-Wall Street Journal reporter Jeff Horwitz, sold another $1.6 million in its second weekend, bringing its domestic total to $8.3 million and its global total to about $14.3 million.
Filmmaker Alex Gibney's documentary Musk, featuring the SpaceX and Tesla CEO in archival footage, tweets, and a computer-generated simulation, expanded to 472 theaters, selling $306,702 in its second weekend and bringing its domestic total to $394,912. The nearly-four-hour film, including a 10-minute intermission, has a 97% critics rating on Rotten Tomatoes, but the film's distributor Bleeker Street has said difficulties advertising the film on Musk's X platform and TikTok have hampered awareness about the film.
Sony's Spider-Man: Brand New Day, produced for $225 million, has now grossed nearly $2.52 billion worldwide. That includes $958.3 million in domestic ticket sales and $1.56 internationally.
"The 11.2x worldwide-gross-to-production budget ratio signals exceptional franchise economics," Hickey wrote.
The fourth-quarter domestic box office through Sunday is at $367 million, up 40% from the same point last year and slightly better than expected.
Eric Handler, Roth senior media and entertainment analyst, projects fourth-quarter box office revenue of $2.525 billion, up 16% from 2025.
He wrote: "Building up a good-sized cushion in October and extending into the first half of November is important ahead of [comparisons to] last year's big Thanksgiving releases in Wicked For Good," the Universal musical that sold $337 million in the fourth quarter, and Walt Disney's Zootopia 2, which grossed $371 million in the quarter.
Four movies are being released this weekend: Clayface, which is expected to open with at least $25 million in domestic box office; Fathom Entertainment's stop-motion animated movie Wildwood; Sony Pictures' dystopian sci-fi movie Kiara and the Sun; and the Sacha Baron Cohen comedy Ali G: Who Iz I?, distributed by Amazon MGM Studios.
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