1994's live-action Street Fighter movie may have upset critics and fans alike, but the narrative that it was somehow a financial dud isn't entirely true.
It is reported to have generated revenue of over $99 million on a $35 million budget – and that's before all of the subsequent home video releases will have been added on.
In fact, Capcom has recently admitted that the movie is still generating "millions of yen" of profit each year for the company, 30 years after it hit cinemas.
The information was revealed during Capcom's recent shareholder meeting. While millions of yen isn't quite the same as millions of dollars (Bison dollars or otherwise), it's still a nice little bonus when you consider the movie will have recouped its costs soon after release, and everything else generated since then is gravy for Capcom.
Directed and written by Steven E. de Souza, Street Fighter starred Jean-Claude Van Damme, Raul Julia, Byron Mann, Damian Chapa, Kylie Minogue, Ming-Na Wen and Wes Studi. It was Julia's final role; he passed away on October 24th, 1994, at the age of 54, following an unsuccessful battle with stomach cancer.
A new live-action movie is currently in development at Legendary Pictures, but it has just lost its directors.
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I love this stupid movie. I Quote from it all the time.
Hilarious sub-headline. And honestly this movie Was great. Camp fun is good fun.
Not a big surprise since it's become a cult classic because of how bad it is.
I bought the VHS, DVD and Blu-ray.
I'd dip in again for a 4kUHD release.
I miss the days when film, comic, and book adaptations of games would go in crazy non-canonical directions. Like weird alternative interpretations.
This divergence is what I loved about the SFII movie.
How does it make this money?
Digital downloads? BD sales?
Raul Julia's Live-Action Street Fighter Movie 😉
I love this movie
Re-release the (awful) game on modern consoles then!
For you, it was one of the most profitable movies based on one of our IPs ever.
But for us, it was Tuesday.
I was wondering that, too, how does it make money these days? BD sales, digital downloads, streaming rights, merchandising maybe? Probably a combination of several, I'd guess...
Raul Julia.
Nuff said.
@MysticWangForce
He is the real Star and a Hero, knowing the Background that he knew of his coming Death.
Edit:
Wich of the Games to the Movie was the fun one?
Arcade, PSX or Saturn?
Or was it a patched Version? hmm
@Azuris it did make it all the more poignant I felt.
Fans to Capcom:
"You got... paid? "
I love SFTM so much I made an audio CD of it so we can listen to it on the long drive to tournaments lol
IT`S NOT AN AWFUL MOVIE ! It`s fun to watch nowadays . Remember that it was made in 1994 ! Way better than Mortal Kombat Annihilation and recent MKombat movie IMHO
One thing it deserves some credit for is managing to shoehorn in every single character from SSF2. That most have taken some rewrites!
@Sketcz My guess is just 'Hollywood Accounting' doing what its always done. Of course theres no proof, and I'm sure for most movie budgets and profits there wont ever be https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hollywood_accounting
10 million yen is 1.8 million dollars. Over 30 years is 54 million. Nice little bit of money for a movie that I only remember from zangief saying "quick! Change the channel!"
Well deserved, movie is a gem among cult classics.
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