Capcom might be working on a brand new Street Fighter film, but it turns out the original one still makes a surprising amount of money.
Have you seen the original 1994 Street Fighter movie? I have, and let me tell you, if I was being real, I would admit it’s not that great a film. But life is boring if you just weigh things up against other, better things, and sometimes you just need to take a movie as it is: horrifically miscast, mostly mediocrely performed, but genuinely hilarious at times (on purpose even), and home to the coldest bad guy line in any piece of media ever. The thing is, when the film initially released, it didn’t really do mind-blowingly. It did manage to make back its $35 million budget, with a global box office figure of around $99 million, but it wasn’t exactly anything to write home about in the greater scheme of things. And yet to this day, the film continues to be profitable for Capcom (thanks, Automaton).
According to an attendee at Capcom’s June 20 shareholder meeting, the live-action adaptation of Street Fighter continues to make 10s of millions of yen per year. To put that into dollars, depending on how many 10s of millions we’re talking about here, that could easily be a few hundred thousand. Chump change compared to what Capcom’s making on the video game front, but for a film that was not received well critically in the slightest, how could you possibly complain about a revenue stream that’ll at least cover a few employees’ salaries?
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