Street Fighter Officially Removed From Over 1,000 Theaters After Box Office Drop

Published Nov 9, 2026, 10:35 AM EST

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Street Fighter is losing its fighting spirit on the big screen.

Street Fighter is one of the most popular video game franchises of all time, particularly when the focus turns to action releases. There have been multiple Street Fighter adaptations over the years, including both live-action and animated movies and TV shows. In terms of live-action films, the franchise first came to theaters through the release of 1994's Street Fighter, which featured names like Jean-Claude Van Damme as Guile and Ming-Na Wen as Chun-Li. The franchise tried to focus on the latter character through a solo film in 2009's Street Fighter: The Legend of Chun-Li, before 2026 brought forth a new take on the franchise.

Now, the new Street Fighter movie is dealing with the loss of 1065 theaters on its fourth domestic weekend (via Box Office Mojo) alongside a box office drop. 2026's Street Fighter started its domestic wide release in a whopping 3575 theaters on October 16. While it is natural for a movie to lose theaters throughout its run, the film had already been removed from 750 theaters by its second weekend, likely as a result of Street Fighter's $30.7 million domestic opening weekend, which came in lower than expected for a video game adaptation that reportedly had a budget of $82 million.

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Based on that budget, Street Fighter needs to finish its box office run between $164 million and $205 million to break even, which is becoming hard with a loss of another 1065 theaters and a global box office total of $99.1 million at the time of writing. Street Fighter's new massive loss of theaters coincides with a brutal box office drop for the video game adaptation. The action film brought in just $2.1 million in its fourth and latest domestic opening weekend. That pushed all the way down to outside the Top 10 Movies at the domestic box office for November 6-8.

Street Fighter ended up at #11 on the chart, with several new theatrical arrivals helping push it out of the coveted domestic top 10. One of those happens to be the movie that dominated the list, the live-action sci-fi sequel Godzilla Minus Zero, which broke records with a $31.6 million debut, making it the highest-grossing foreign-language film debut at the domestic box office in history. Fierce competition and the fact that Street Fighter's reviews have not been kind to the movie, as the action-packed release holds a low 42% critics' score based on 146 reviews, likely impacted its performance.

In ScreenRant's Street Fighter review, Brandon Zachary gave the movie a 7 out of 10 score, noting how Street Fighter always picks style over substance throughout its 119-minute runtime. Street Fighter features many beloved characters from the video game franchise, with actors like Noah Centineo as Ken, Andrew Koji as Ryu, Callina Liang as Chun-Li, Cody Rhodes as Guile, Jason Momoa as Blanka, and many more. Street Fighter focuses on Chun-Li recruiting Ken and Ryu to take the fight to the evil M. Bison, played by David Dastmalchian, as they enter a fighting tournament.