Hollywood’s October box office weekend delivered a classic underdog story. Paramount’s Street Fighter opened at No. 1 domestically, earning $31 million from 3,575 theaters across the October 16–18 weekend. The video-game adaptation, starring Noah Centineo, Andrew Koji and Jason Momoa and produced by Legendary Pictures with Capcom, gave the fall season a much-needed anchor hit.
But the real story of the weekend was playing in far fewer theaters. A24’s You Can See Everything — the three-hour Elizabeth Holmes/Theranos documentary from Nathan Fielder and Lance Oppenheim — opened at No. 2 with $15 million from just 855 theaters. That makes it the biggest opening for a non-music documentary in two decades, with more than 2,000 showings selling out and queues forming around the block in major cities.
Rounding out the top five, Jessica Chastain’s horror film Other Mommy slipped to No. 3 with $8.4 million in its second weekend (domestic total $44.9 million), despite carrying a rare D+ CinemaScore from audiences. Josh Brolin’s survival thriller Whalefall opened at No. 4 with $8 million, while Daisy Edgar-Jones’ Sense and Sensibility debuted at No. 5 with $7.3 million.
The rest of the top 10 included Verity ($6.2M), Resident Evil ($5.5M), Brad Pitt’s Heart of the Beast ($4.8M), Jailer 2 ($3.2M) and Forgotten Island ($2.2M). Overall, the weekend collected around $101.6 million — up about 45% from the same weekend last year — pushing year-to-date domestic sales to roughly $8.2 billion, nearly 20% ahead of 2025.
The momentum now passes to next weekend, when DC’s Clayface is widely expected to seize the No. 1 spot. Whether the Holmes documentary can hold its remarkable screen average in a second weekend will be one of the most closely watched box office stories of the season. Also read our Ramayana advance booking story and India’s biggest IPO coverage.
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