New Street Fighter movie bombs at box office

Posted Mar 1st 2009 5:00PM by John Callaham
Filed under: Culture, Fighting

While we are still waiting for Capcom to make up their minds on when they will release their PC port of Street Fighter IV, the publisher has to deal with the fact that the second live-action feature film based on their fighting game series didn't register with the movie going public.

Box Office Mojo reports that Street Fighter: The Legend of Chun-Li, only brought in $4.65 million in its debut weekend. It managed an eighth place finish among the films showing in US theaters this weekend. The film got little publicity aside from a few TV commericals and was not shown to movie critics before release. That's usually a sign that the movie studio knows it's not very good. By contrast the 1994 Street Fighter movie (with Jean-Claude Van Damme and the late Raul Julia in his final role) brought in $6.8 million in its opening weekend (and that figure is not adjusted for inflation).

Tags: capcom, street-fighter-iv, street-fighter-the-legend-of-chun-li

Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)

This should come as a surprise to no one.Posted at 9:05PM on Mar 1st 2009 by Crunch Jingles

duh.Posted at 11:27PM on Mar 1st 2009 by goog9

i watched it, the only good thing is Kristin Kreuk, she did well, Chris Klein is so done. Posted at 12:35AM on Mar 2nd 2009 by jimminey

I'm not surprised.
Honestly? The first one was better. I personally liked the first movie, yeah yeah so many things weren't quite right, but so what? Bison was Bison, not some scrawny looking blond in a suit. I don't even know if Ryu was in the movie, I saw some asian guy in the commercials, but hey, that wouldn't be nice of me if I assumed the first asian guy to pop up in a street fighter film was Ryu (For all you know, E. Honda might of went on a diet :P)Posted at 3:35AM on Mar 2nd 2009 by devilsei

WTF? People still watch movies??? Why?

...bysmittyPosted at 7:47AM on Mar 2nd 2009 by bysmitty

This would have sold better if the CollegeHumor guys had written it. Seriously -- I haven't seen this, but I guarantee it's not as good as Street Fighter: The Later Years.Posted at 9:06AM on Mar 2nd 2009 by James