r/boxoffice • u/JoJoWithTheFroyo Universal • 12h ago
Domestic Paramount & Legendary’s Street Fighter grossed an estimated $13.0M domestically on Friday (from 3,575 locations), including previews.
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u/nicolasb51942003 Warner Bros. Pictures 12h ago
Not bad. It's gonna end up with a similar number as Tron Ares last year, but with a smaller budget in comparison.
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u/linebrack 12h ago
I had way more fun with this movie than I was expecting
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u/fpfall 12h ago
It helped that I went in expecting to be completely disappointed. My expectations were on the floor, and the movie could only go up from there. That said, Cody Rhodes is inspired casting as Guile and got some great laughs.
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u/SpiritualAd9102 11h ago
Cody Rhodes was good at playing Cody. The character in the movie is nothing like Guile.
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u/fpfall 11h ago
Really nobody was like their characters except the ones that got no meaningful characterization time (Honda, Dhalsim, Vega, Joe, etc). The only ones that really offended me was Bison being the weirdest fucking pervert and Cammy being a chaotic goblin
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u/SpiritualAd9102 10h ago
This is true. It’s why I’m confused at the few professional reviews and the many fan comments that are saying this was made “lovingly for fans of the games”.
Outside of the animated scenes, this is nothing like SF. Half the tournament is off screen and the cast are either playing OC’s in Street Fighter costumes or playing themselves in costumes, (Guile and Dan especially).
Dhalsim was probably the only faithful character in the entire thing and he’s in it for like three minutes.
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u/Flat_Environment_432 11h ago
Maybe it will gt expanded on part 2 at best
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u/SpiritualAd9102 10h ago
Unless it’s big on streaming, it’s not looking like it’ll get one. Which is funny considering the movie doesn’t have an ending in an attempt at sequel bait.
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u/lobolovr6769 5h ago
Cody was fun but it was clear in this movie he is no actor. His line delivery was very much “WWE” while almost everyone else in the movie acted like a film actor and delivered their lines as such.
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u/brockzilla82 5h ago
How much is Cody and Roman in it ?
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u/Gul_Ducatti 5h ago
Roman does mostly VO work as Akuma until the wet fart of an ending. Cody chews scenery as Guile and gets his ass kicked off screen by Vega.
I think we get maybe a combined 45 seconds of both of them fighting the entire movie if we don’t count the Anime Flashbacks for Akuma.
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u/brockzilla82 4h ago
But how much screen time for Cody like 5 min?
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u/Gul_Ducatti 4h ago
Maybe that much. Maybe a bit more. He barely gets any fighting time in.
It is really a shame because this movie LOOKS so good. It really nailed the over the top look and feel of Street Fighter, it just failed to have a coherent story, or script, or characters we should care about, or plot, or pacing, or competent editors, or an ending that isn’t a cliff hanger…
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u/forever87 6h ago
watched Thursday at night. the afternoon before watching, i was scanning my frontpage and an r/sf post had the rotten tomatoes score. i was worried - but the opening animation started off fun. non stop smiling and laughter throughout the movie. cammy was a secondary character, but I'm in love. i had reservations on dan's and ken's actors, but their partnership worked (and the dialogue between ryu and dan was nice too).
ryu explaining his actions was a good topper. a lot of the criticism mentioned the characters are in the same spot (from beginning to end), or remove this character, and the movie remains exactly the same. for me, that couldn't be more wrong - as "animated" and visual the movie was - the events of the movie were "realistic" and not everything needs to be force fed to the viewers. truth be told, i would totally watch an extended version.
so much fun watching, as agreed by my best friend. would be ecstatic for a sequel. more killer bees! and cammy's redemption - and well more cammy x chun
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u/ComprehensiveHyena10 10h ago
I can easily see a 70% drop next week because after the Street Fighter fans have been to see it, who else will want to.
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u/Visible-Echidna-4370 5h ago
I think it'll be a similar or slightly worse drop than mortal kombat ii
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u/SonicInjustice 11h ago
It’s unfortunate that it isn’t performing super well but I had an absolute blast watching it with my Dad. There was a guy who’s clearly a huge Street Fighter fan sitting next to me, the guy was even geeking out at the Capcom logo. I was lucky to have an awesome crowd laughing throughout and having a good time.
I really hope this somehow managed to turn a profit because I’d love this to be a recurring film franchise.
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u/Flat_Environment_432 10h ago
Same I know people don't like it but I think it will do well it gonna take a while because it was just out
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u/MrConor212 Legendary Pictures 11h ago
I will be shocked if I’m sitting down to watch a sequel in the next few years.
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u/Kazaloogamergal 12h ago
Again a decent number but that B minus Cinemascore is worrisome.
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u/Kazaloogamergal 12h ago
What does Nolan have to do with anything? This constant "nobody expected an Oscar movie" defense of movies with poor reviews and a bad Cinemascore is straw man bullshit. Street Fighter didn't get poor reviews because it's not like a Christopher Nolan movie. Resident Evil isn't like a Nolan movie either and it got great reviews. Masters of the Universe is not like a Nolan movie and it got better reviews than Street Fighter. 99.9% of critics were not expecting a Street Fighter movie to be Oscar worthy. I haven't seen Street Fighter so I'm not personally judging it but silly movies can be bad. Silly movies are not above criticism just because they are silly.
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u/Gummy-Worm-Guy 12h ago
These people don’t realize they’re actively depriving themselves of good movies by making excuses every time a studio puts out a bad one.
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u/Kazaloogamergal 12h ago
Yep. It's so wrong to have no expectations for popcorn movies. Some of our greatest movies are popcorn movies.
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u/SpiritualAd9102 11h ago
I saw it and it’s uniquely bad. The only people praising this are people who decided they were going to like it a year ago. The CinemaScore being so low reflects that.
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u/SpiritualAd9102 11h ago
Cinemascore is from fans. A B- is really bad for a movie like this where most of the people seeing it on day one are super fans who have a positive bias.
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u/liberatedtech68 12h ago
Correct, it is a fun time if you like the games.
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u/onehotoneshot 12h ago
Ideally a movie would be enjoyable and appeal to a broader audience than one gaming community
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u/SpiritualAd9102 11h ago
No it’s not, it takes so many liberties that it feels like a bunch of OC’s in Street Fighter cosplay.
I can’t think of any fans of the game that are happy that they made Bison a feet sniffing pervert.
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u/newjackgmoney21 12h ago
Terrible movie. If you told me this was edited by the same people as 2016 Suicide Squad I'd believe you. The tone, pacing all over the place. A mess of a movie with a bunch of 90s needle drops. I'm surprised the critic score wasn't lower like Borderlands.
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u/Nervous_Most_5585 11h ago
It should open with close to 30M, but that B- CinemaScore won't help it with legs at all.
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u/cameraspeeding 7h ago
Now they are saying it was only 9 million
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u/ComprehensiveHyena10 6h ago
For Friday; the other four is for "previews". Which aren't really previews anymore but they keep pretending that movies open on a Friday even when they clearly don't.
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u/Gullible-Joke-9772 12h ago
Lame movie
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u/lobolovr6769 5h ago
I thought it was pretty fun for the first hour. Sometime after Bison drains psycho power from Ryu for his machine and Blanka escapes, it just progressively got shittier and shittier and then the final act climax was so incredibly lackluster I can’t even remember almost anything about the last 50 minutes of the film, it was just so bad
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u/Sad_Chai66 12h ago
Street Fighter needs to make atleast $200 million at the box office to make a profit.
Its going to flop so hard.
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u/RegularVega 12h ago
Citation?
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u/Yhendrix49 11h ago
It has a budget of $82 million and films usually need 2-2.5 x the budget to break even meaning this needs to make between $164-205 million to break even.
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u/lobolovr6769 5h ago
I think it will be lucky to cross $150M WW, its legs are gonna get capped after this week
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u/East_Leg_2129 5h ago edited 1h ago
You have no idea how its legs will be or how it will perform internationally. 200m from a 30m US ow is not an impossible hole to get out of. But even if it ends around 150m, I wouldn’t call that a flop, especially after digital and streaming revenue comes in. Other movies this year lost a lot more money.
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u/DripSnort 11h ago
Guess I’m gonna have to go see it a few thousand more times to get the sequel I want. I’ll try my best
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u/Sorry-Difference-389 11h ago edited 11h ago
it's not a good movie, messy mediocre and outdated plot. but i reallyenjoyed it, the cast, the set piece and CGI. i could see this banking in Paramount+, so i hope it got decent box office (it's hard), Deadline said it eyed open for 70M WW from 82M budget (not include marketing)
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u/BonjaminClay 10h ago
This movie was a blast y'all. It's the most authentic and joyful and energetic game adaptation I've ever seen. Please go see it because I'd love for it to make enough for them to make a second one.
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u/sci_fientist 4h ago
Bring on the downvotes, I'm with you. It wasn't a great movie by any means but goddamn it was fun. Made me feel like a kid.
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u/BQ32 2h ago
I watched it, it was expectedly dumb but actually a pretty fun watch. Outside of Bison the rest of the cast looked quite good, the fight scenes were pretty decent with comical relief considering the amount of ridiculous moves they had to incorporate to be canon for the game and some of the scenes and HDR were really well shot and implemented. The soundtrack was also pretty dope for an 80s baby.
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u/123jazzhandz321 12h ago
So 27.5m-30m OW and 65-75m DOM?
Feels like this will top out at 150m WW, and I doubt a sequel gets picked up