‘Street Fighter’ Punches Its Way to Top Of the Box Office

Quite a few movies came out this weekend, but only one could be the top performer—and that was Street Fighter.

Per Variety, Paramount and Capcom’s martial arts movie made $51.1 million worldwide, with $30 million coming from domestic markets. Already, the global take puts it well ahead of the $12 million earned by its predecessor, 2009’s The Legend of Chun-Li and behind the $99.4 million of the 1994 film. Compared to more recent video games movies—namely, September’s Resident Evil and…