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By Kayleigh Donaldson | Film | October 19, 2026
While the hype was high, the latest adaptation of Street Fighter did not live up to those lofty expectations. Yes, it’s a lot to ask that a video game movie be good but hey, this genre is no longer as cursed as it once was! A colourful ad campaign helped the move take the top spot with $31 million from 3,575 locations.
It was a busy week for new releases, and while Street Fighter was the victor of the box office this past weekend, surely the big story is the success of You Can See Everything. Nathan Fielder and Noah Oppenheim’s three-hour A24 documentary on Elizabeth Holmes is one of the most talked-about films of the year. But Fielder is still a niche figure so you would be forgiven for thinking this movie would only be a minor commercial success. Well, it earned $15 million from only 855 cinemas. That’s a per-location average of $17,543. That’s the biggest opening weekend for a documentary since Fahrenheit 9/11! And it only cost $7 million to make!
If street fights and scammers wasn’t your bag, you always had daddy issues whale consumption or Jane Austen. Don’t say you didn’t have options! At number four is Whalefall, starring Austin Abrams as a man who is eaten by a metaphor-laden whale. It grossed $8 million from 3,065. Right behind that was Sense and Sensibility, with $7.25 million from 2,545 places.
Jailer 2, a Tamil-language action-comedy, landed at number six with $3.26 million from 420 theatres. The spider-themed horror movie Crawlers could only creep up $468,457 from 1,037 places.
The long-awaited restoration of Ken Russell’s The Devils is in cinemas for one week only, and the real freaks came out in droves. It orgied up $1.64 million from 350 theatres. I am SO jealous of the people who got to do a double bill of The Devils and You Can See Everything. Once again, us Brits are denied all the fun stuff.
In limited release news: La bola negra, the Spanish drama and winner of this year’s TIFF Audience Award, took in $277,500 from only four theatres; Flywheel: Ignition of the Soul, a Christian film, grossed $200,000 from 554 cinemas; and the documentary Once Upon a Time on Harlem took in $68,307 from two theatres.
This coming week sees the release of the DC horror Clayface, the Laika animated epic Wildwood, Taika Waititi’s Klara and the Sun, and *sigh* Ali G: Who Iz I?
You can check out the rest of the weekend box office numbers here.
