Overview
- The film opened May 8 and has taken in about $46.9 million in North America and roughly $75.1 million worldwide within six days, based on Box Office Mojo figures cited in new reports.
- Those receipts make it the No. 2 fighting-game adaptation domestically, passing the 2021 reboot and sitting less than $24 million shy of the 1995 film’s franchise-leading U.S. total.
- Reviews skew moderately positive with about a 65% critics’ score on Rotten Tomatoes, while audiences give it around 89%, helped by a tournament-first, R-rated approach.
- With a reported $80 million budget and standard box-office math that often requires about 2.5 times budget to break even, the film would need near $200 million, so overseas turnout and week-to-week holds will be pivotal.
- Writer Jeremy Slater says he is mapping several sequels if the numbers support it, and home release timing remains unannounced, with outside analysts offering only tentative guesses for late-July HBO Max and early-August PVOD.