With the Nathan Fielder and Elizabeth Holmes documentary craze currently a stateside thing, Paramount/Legendary/Capcom’s Street Fighter was the ringleader at the worldwide weekend B.O. with a $51.1M global opening. Of that $20.1M came from 65 markets with the lionshare stateside with $31M.
Again, this is several kicks up from what Street Fighter did in its last big-screen appearance with Jean- Claude Van Damme in 1994, that pic opening to $6.8M domestic, and ending its run at $33.4M stateside, and $99.4M global (all unadjusted for inflation and currency swings).
Though Street Figther‘s opening round is lower than expected
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