Street Fighter movie 2026 opens wide in the United States on Friday 16 October, bringing Capcom's World Warrior roster back to multiplexes for the first live-action feature since 2009. Directed by Kitao Sakurai for Legendary and Capcom, and distributed by Paramount Pictures, the film runs about 120 minutes and lands in IMAX as well as standard screens. This same-day guide covers the cast map, the 1993-set plot, box-office expectations and how it sits beside the rest of the weekend slate.
Street Fighter release date and runtime
Paramount and Legendary set the US theatrical date for 16 October 2026, after a premiere at Grauman's Chinese Theatre on 12 October. The BBFC lists a 12A UK classification and a 120-minute runtime. The project moved from an earlier Sony window after Legendary's distribution deal shifted to Paramount in 2025. Enstarz and Box Office Mojo both flag Street Fighter as the weekend's widest opener, with reports of roughly 3,500+ North American theaters.
Cast: who plays Ryu, Ken, Chun-Li and Bison?
The ensemble is headlined by Noah Centineo as Ken Masters and Andrew Koji as Ryu (including Evil Ryu). Callina Liang plays Chun-Li, an undercover Interpol agent in this telling. David Dastmalchian is M. Bison; WWE's Roman Reigns plays Akuma; Cody Rhodes is Guile; Jason Momoa is Blanka; 50 Cent is Balrog; Orville Peck is Vega; Vidyut Jammwal is Dhalsim; Andrew Schulz is Dan Hibiki; and Don Lee voices Gouken in flashbacks. Additional cast listed by Wikipedia and studio materials includes Eric André, Olivier Richters, Mel Jarnson and Alexander Volkanovski.
Liang told IGN she trained daily in taekwondo, Muay Thai and wushu and bulked for the role, reporting each thigh grew about 6.5 cm by the end of the Australia shoot.
Plot: 1993 World Warrior tournament
Set six years after Ryu's 1987 tournament win awakens Akuma and costs mentor Gouken his life, the film follows Chun-Li as she recruits estranged fighters Ryu and Ken for M. Bison's second World Warrior tournament in Metrolao. Bison's scheme to harvest Ryu's power, prison fights with Blanka, and a late confrontation with Akuma drive the action. Screenplay credit goes to T. J. Fixman and Sakurai, from a story by Dalan Musson and Gary Dauberman. Titmouse animated 1990s-anime-style flashback sequences.
Box office and early reviews
Deadline and Variety mid-October tracking put the domestic opening in a roughly $25–39 million range, with some global-opening chatter near $70 million. As of opening weekend, Rotten Tomatoes showed mixed early notices (about 47% from ~60 reviews in Wikipedia's snapshot) and Metacritic around 45. Treat those aggregates as moving targets once Friday evening reviews pile in.
How to watch this weekend
Catch Street Fighter in US theaters and IMAX from 16 October. It shares the weekend with Whalefall, A24's You Can See Everything (already covered on this site), and Focus Features' Sense and Sensibility. For the Holmes documentary's theatrical path see our You Can See Everything A24 guide; for the Austen remake's cast and UK/US dates see Sense and Sensibility 2026. Sakurai has said a sequel script is in progress, with greenlights tied to audience reception.
Sources
Wikipedia Street Fighter (2026 film); Paramount / Legendary release materials; Deadline and Variety box-office tracking Oct 2026; BBFC 12A listing; IGN Callina Liang interview; Enstarz theater-count report; Capcom Town trailer hub.
Production notes worth knowing
Principal photography ran in Australia from 18 August to 12 November 2025 under the working title Punch, with Ken Seng as cinematographer. Visual effects houses credited across trade coverage include Digital Domain, DNEG, Framestore, Niche VFX and Od Studios. The Milan Records score by Leo Birenberg and Zach Robinson — Sakurai's collaborators from the Twisted Metal series — arrives digitally on the same day as the theatrical open. Hasbro holds the global master toy license; Legendary Comics launched a prequel graphic-novel Kickstarter in September 2026.
Sources: Wikipedia Street Fighter (2026 film); Paramount / Legendary; Deadline; Variety; BBFC; IGN; Enstarz; Capcom Town.