In Paramount and Legendary's new Street Fighter movie, the heavily made-up villain Akuma, revealed in the third act, is played by WWE star Roman Reigns (Joe Anoa'i). David Dastmalchian plays the main villain, M. Bison.
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DC Studios' body-horror film "Clayface" opened to $24 million, topping the box office but landing slightly below the $25-30 million projections. IndieWire calls it a middling but not bad result for a niche character, helped by a lower budget than most comic-book films, and it held off A24's "You Can See Everything," which earned $19.5 million in its second weekend.
Marvel's Blade keeps hitting trouble: Mahershala Ali confirmed this summer the MCU movie won't go ahead with him, blaming Marvel Studios. Now a new report suggests time is running out for Arkane Studios, the Dishonored developer making the Marvel's Blade video game, after Xbox's June layoffs and studio divestments.
Netflix Korea announced We Go High, a K-pop girl group audition series set at an arts high school, and opened applications to first- and second-year students at arts and entertainment high schools, plus students entering them in 2027. Producers Park Jin-kyung and Lee Jae-seok of Monsterahaus will direct, and Netflix signed an agreement with SM C&C to support the group that forms.
A24's Elizabeth Holmes documentary You Can See Everything earned $19.5 million in its second weekend, up 25% from its $15.6 million opening. The rise came as it expanded from 855 to 2,655 theaters, IndieWire reports.
