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Street Fighter: the Legend of Chun-Li gets knocked out at box office

Posted Mar 2, 2009 at 7:53AM EST by QJ Staff

Listed in: Wii, PS3, Xbox 360 Tags: Martial Arts, Uwe Boll

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The Far Side moment: "What am I thinking, I can't do martial arts," she thought

20th Century Fox failed to cash in on the love of gamers for Street Fighter IV (PS3, 360). The Legend of Chun-Li movie struck an overwhelming disappointment with moviegoers this weekend.

How bad? Let's just say that three of Uwe Boll's movies beat its opening gross. And that's without adjustments for inflation. Even the original Van Damme Street Fighter movie beat it. The Legend of Chun-Li grossed US$ 4.65 million for its opening weekend. Not a total bust of course, but come on. I at least hoped that Kristin Kreuk would pull in the fanboys.

In case you were wondering, the three Uwe Boll movies are "In the Name of the King," "Alone in the Dark," and "House of the Dead."

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I have not seen a single ad at the cinema for this. Let alone anything on TV. Those three movies you quoted had quite reasonable advertising campaigns, WTF is going on with cinema advertising lately. Do they think the internet is enough these days, I only see like mega block busters advertised, eg James Bond.

# Man that movie sucked...... — Atownaction 2009-03-02 15:00

I tell you when directors make crap it sure do stink and well I dont even know why this movie was made it should have been a anime movie instead pee whewww!!!!!!

# havn't seen it — hush404 2009-03-02 15:47

But the hell with it! It looks like crap! Its got very few SF characters and the ones they do have are horrible! They didn't even try! AND FANS NOTICED.

YOU CAN'T MAKE CRAP AND EXPECT PEOPLE TO BUY INTO IT!

PS - Raul Julia was THE ONLY M.BISON!

# .... — Shatterdome 2009-03-02 17:33

I never even saw an ad on the internet for this movie....just for the game.

# Two words for this movie.... — popmchnex 2009-03-02 17:35

Total garbage.

# Yeah... — Shatterdome 2009-03-02 17:35

Not to mention that chick is not chun-li to me....not sure which actress they could have used...but they need to be more asian, and be willing to undergo a 6 month upper leg strengthening routine...

# It's out? — hypercoyote360 2009-03-02 20:12

wow, I didn't even realize it was out yet....I think they can chalk up some of that to poor advertising. Still, I probably will go see it sometime just for kicks and of course for Kristen :)

# film — games133 2009-03-02 21:11

what u should try get and watch is a film called the quest i watched it other night and for me it was street fight should be unlike the street fight film.

# .. — joemontana03 2009-03-02 22:48

i never saw even a sf4 internet ad! ok, maybe i should disable my adblock plus. but like, i follow game news and stuff, i guess the movie would be sorta advertised among other game stuff. like, i heard of silent hill and other crappy movies...

# $4.6 Million ? — SolidXnake 2009-03-03 03:57

WOW Im surprised that this movie got that much money -LOOOOL- I didnt even bother to go see this crap - and I'm a SF fan - I knew it the minute I saw the first preview of the movie.

# called it — fearlubu 2009-03-03 06:41

I knew this movie was going to be terrible ever since i saw it on fandango....just the list of upcoming movies, I didnt even check it out yet lol

# A look into the future — zzk2001 2009-03-03 08:25

behold the future for the New DBZ movie LOL

Sure I bet the DBZ movie MAY and I do say MAY get about 8 or 10 mil But that's Just the Ppl going to watch it to See How bad it really Is =P

As for this Movie LOL what words can i say.......... I mean What Dumb ass makes a Street Fighter movie and Not have Ryu or Ken in it LOL Thats like having a DBZ movie with the Story line changed and bad Actors....Opps =P

I guess we can just Hope the CG in the DBZ movie is better then it was in this Movie, I mean really did you She Her Ball LOL wow, I seen Fan Made stuff look better then that.

# LOL — zzk2001 2009-03-03 08:28

i said "She her" LOL

Well if you can't lol at your Self then you may as well go shoot your self +P

# DB: E — SuperVegeta 2009-03-03 10:49

I thought this SF movie may actually do alright. I have ZERO hope for the Dragonball Evolution movie though. Can a movie do less than a million opening weekend? We may just find out.

# LOL — Stealth! 2009-03-03 22:42

I also called it. I mean honestly the people they've chose for the characters were just pitiful. I mean TABOO as VEGA? Chris Klein as Charlie? Kristen Kruek as Chun Li? Lui Kang(sorry forgot his real name) as Gen? They were jokes.

The only actor they got right to play the role was Michael Clarke Duncan as Balrog.

I also expect DB:E to fail miserably. Tip to movie producers, directors...etc: ANIME SHOULD STAY AS ANIME NOT LIVE ACTION FILMS. >_>

# Balrog — popmchnex 2009-03-04 02:45

Michael Clarke Duncan was a great balrog. Neil McDonough was a good Bison, but he looked nothing like him, and was very shallow.

What Hollywood fails to realize is that fighting games can't be made into movies with horrible results.... look at Mortal Kombat. God. They spend all this money training the actors, that they've got none left for production value and proper scripting.

# agreed. — infinitysend 2009-03-05 19:01

Let's not get started on Cowboy Bebop movie with Keanu as Spike.... o_o

My theory why the SF movie did so poorly is because Watchmen comes out this weekend. Everyone's just saving their money to see it instead. :)

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