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Post by Replicant on Oct 20, 2017 8:21:29 GMT
Street Fighter is a 1994 Japanese-American action film written and directed by Steven E. de Souza. It is based loosely on the video game Street Fighter II, produced by Capcom, and stars Jean-Claude Van Damme, and Raúl Juliá, along with supporting performances by Byron Mann, Damian Chapa, Kylie Minogue, Ming-Na Wen and Wes Studi. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Street_Fighter_(1994_film)
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Post by Claudia on Oct 20, 2017 8:23:33 GMT
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Post by Claudia on Nov 20, 2017 12:37:29 GMT
screenrant.com/street-fighter-movie-failed-steven-e-de-souza-facts-trivia/
By Jack Beresford November 20, 2017 16 Things You Never Knew About The Failed Street Fighter Movie
When Steven E. de Souza was first hired to write and direct a film based on the popular Street Fighter gaming franchise, he was determined to create something that was more than just a generic martial arts movie.
De Souza wanted his Street Fighter film to be a cross between James Bond and Star Wars by way of a good old-fashioned war movie. He was also determined to avoid the mistakes of Super Mario Bros. the then-recent computer game film adaptation that bombed both critically and commercially a year earlier.
To de Souza, that meant avoiding the temptation to shoehorn elements from the games into the film while also doing away with some of Street Fighter’s more supernatural elements.
What he never counted on, however, was the interference of Capcom, the Japanese company behind the Street Fighter games and the movie’s co-producers who had the final say on pretty much everything that would feature in the finished film.
Though de Souza’s Street Fighter movie would go one better than Super Mario Bros. by becoming a box office success, the resulting movie was rightly lambasted by fans and critics alike.
So, what went wrong for de Souza? Pretty much everything from the sound of it. Here are the 16 Things You Never Knew About the Failed Street Fighter Movie.
Read more here: screenrant.com/street-fighter-movie-failed-steven-e-de-souza-facts-trivia/
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Post by Gen. Miro on Jan 19, 2018 20:47:18 GMT
That was really awesome!
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Post by Replicant on Feb 9, 2018 20:54:04 GMT
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Post by doriankray on Feb 14, 2018 19:01:12 GMT
I wud of loved something like this back in the day. Wonder Wat the gameplay was like
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Post by Claudia on May 17, 2018 17:04:18 GMT
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Post by Claudia on May 24, 2018 19:24:56 GMT
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Post by Claudia on May 31, 2018 18:05:25 GMT
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Post by Claudia on Jun 26, 2018 9:54:16 GMT
Any idea how much money Street Fighter still brings in every year? Read article below and find out. vandal.elespanol.com/noticia/1350709500/la-pelicula-de-street-fighter-todavia-genera-medio-millon-de-dolares-al-ano/ Translation by Google: Capcom premiered in 1994 Street Fighter: The Last Battle (Steven E. de Souza), a film adaptation of the magnum opus of the Japanese company within the fighting genre. The film debuted strongly at the box office, covering expenses and operating in cinemas around the world, but its dubious quality and no fidelity to the video game condemned the tape that ended up becoming a recurring meme. However, for the Japanese company it is still a round business. Generates about half a million dollars a year
The company, through a detailed fiscal report, has detailed how the film starring Jean-Claude Van Damme continues to report benefits a handful of years after its premiere in cinema. According to Kenzo Tsujimoto of Capcom, the film is a solid source of income. "One of our long-term keys can be found in our adaptations for Hollywood," Tsujimoto explained. "Even today, no other Japanese company has been able to fully finance a film in Hollywood and get a return of 136 million dollars," he added.
So generous benefits after more than two decades come from the most diverse fronts; and is that after the release of a movie, the film continues to have a presence in several areas, from broadcasts on television channels to sales in domestic formats such as VHS (in its day), DVD or Blu-Ray, as well as digital sales in iTunes, PSN or Xbox Live.
Capcom has continued producing other films based on its popular fight saga, such as the remembered Street Fighter II: The Animated Movie (for many, one of the best Japanese animation films in history) and other real action adaptations such as Street Fighter: The Legend of Chun Li, a film that failed at the level of revenue.
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Post by Replicant on Jul 11, 2018 7:44:27 GMT
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Post by Replicant on Nov 15, 2018 18:53:29 GMT
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Post by Claudia on Mar 19, 2019 9:35:35 GMT
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Post by Claudia on Mar 24, 2019 16:15:20 GMT
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Post by Replicant on Sept 5, 2019 18:19:40 GMT
Sept. 4, 2019 The Street Fighter Movie Is Good, Actually By Mike Drucker Apparently it’s the Street Fighter movie’s 25th anniversary this year. It’s hard to imagine it’s been 25 entire years (a quarter century!) since such a gem was introduced to the public. Once maligned as one of the worst video-game movies ever made, it’s now still maligned as one of the worst video-game movies ever made.
Street Fighter: The Movie is good, actually.
Even the opening credits are perfect. After the soothing tones of the Universal Studios opening, the logo for the movie slams onto the globe! Dramatic music, the names Jean-Claude Van Damme and Raul Julia appear, and then, with dramatic whooshes, “STREET. FIGHTER.”
Maybe that’s what makes the Street Fighter movie so good: It doesn’t just feature clichés, it is clichés: The pre-9/11, pre-rise-of-white-supremacy concept of terrorists selling missiles on an open market. The for-comedy-purposes-only henchmen ditching their boss because the audience likes them and they should. The lead female character disguising herself as a dancer to break into the enemy base.
Oh God, and let’s not forget Bison naming his money “Bison Dollars” and promising to kidnap the queen of England for the sole purpose of setting an exchange rate of one Bison dollar being worth five British pounds.
The Street Fighter movie isn’t so bad that it’s good; it’s a movie that doesn’t care that it’s bad, which makes it good.
Read more here: www.vulture.com/2019/09/street-fighter-movie-is-good-actually.html
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