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On Sunday we reported that Street Fighter: The Legend of Chun-Li,the second live action feature film based on Capcom's fighting game series, bombed in its first weekend at the US box office. Box Office Mojo now has the final numbers, stating that the film brought in just $4.7 million to come in eighth place. The results were lower than the first weekend's box office for the 1994 Street Fighter movie.

Even with the poor reception from movie goers and critics, Capcom is not deterred by the inital results. Our sister site GameDaily chatter with Capcom's Corporate PR head Chris Kramer who stated, "Critics were unkind to the first Street Fighter movie as well, but that film has been ridiculously profitable for Capcom over the last decade. The original SF movie still generates millions of dollars in royalties for Capcom every year, thanks to cable, foreign distribution, home video, DVD and Blu-ray sales."

In fact Capcom might earn even more from the second film since it's the first time Capcom entered into a co-production deal with the movie studio that made the film. The publisher already has another movie under this new deal that has completed filming (Onimusha) and other films based on their game properties are under development, including Lost Planet.

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).

If you are lucky enough to be able to attend the San Diego Comic-Con this weekend, you will get a chance to check out a ton of exhibitors, including game publishers. One of those game publishers is Capcom and they have announced their schedule of events at their Comic-Con booth for the four days of the show beginning on Thursday.

The big highlight of the show at the Capcom booth has to be an autograph appearance by actress Kristin Kreuk. Yes, Smallville's hot Lana Lang will be signing at the Capcom booth on Thursday to promote the upcoming film Street Fighter: The Legend of Chun-Li (she plays the title role). Capcom will hold tournaments throughout Comic-Con (the game is scheduled to be released on the PC as well as consoles) and there will be appearances from Bionic Commando himself (don't ask).