00:00How will Street Fighter and then Clayface do at the box office? These are the first two films
00:07to come out since Paramount and Warner Brothers merged to become the mega studio Skydance. So
00:13a lot is writing on these two titles. How will they do at the box office? We can tell you
00:18that
00:18their accountants will be happy, maybe not popping champagne, or if they pop champagne,
00:25maybe it's not going to be Cristal, maybe something a little more reasonably priced,
00:31but Street Fighter, which is based on the 1980s video game, kind of like the first fighting game
00:37ever, is tracking to bring in, according to our experts who we consulted at Box Office Pro,
00:45you should check out their site, it's pretty good, to kick up $25 to $35 million. Sources say that it
00:51is going to target millennials, kind of trying to cash in on nostalgia, and it's going for that
00:58Masters of the Universe audience from earlier this year. Now, Clayface is pretty interesting.
01:04It's a horror adjacent film, it's being called, which is from the sort of Batman universe,
01:10and it's getting a lot of great buzz. In fact, fans are comparing it to Obsession,
01:16but apparently it's a it's like a hard R rated film, and it only costs $40 million. The experts
01:23at Box Office Pro are telling us that that's also tracking at $25 to $30 million for the opening
01:29weekend. But once the campaign kicks in, it could do even better, maybe opening to $35. Street Fighter
01:36opens this weekend, Clayface opens the following weekend. You can check out more on this story,
01:41and all things Box Office in the Page Six Hollywood newsletter.
