The latest Street Fighter movie - Legend of Chun-Li - would seem to be universally abhorred. But this doesn't matter to Capcom. Its representative, Chris Kramer, zeroes in on the reason: The money!

Kramer, who is Capcom USA's senior director of corporate communications, told Game Daily, "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."

He continued, "And Capcom would be receiving even more money if that had been a co-production deal!"

'Co-production deal?' we hear you ask. Yes, Capcom is apparently taking a more Marvel-like approach to the movies spinning out of its intellectual property, co-producing all the biggies.

This dovetails with what Capcom's 'head of character contents business', Toshihiro Tokumaru, said about [url= http://news.spong.com/article/16961/Capcom_Resident_Evil_Movie_Rights_Unfortunate ]the 'unfortunate' situation regarding the Resident Evil[/url] movie deals signed in the past.

We'll let Kramer explain: "Capcom is going to be much more heavily involved in our movies – Street Fighter: The Legend of Chun-Li is the first film to hit theaters that follows this model, which is why the Capcom logo has such prominent placement at the beginning of the movie. We also have Onimusha (wrapped shooting in Asia a few months ago), Clock Tower and Lost Planet movies in production, as well as a few other options floating around Hollywood."

With that in mind, maybe Capcom ought to be a bit more concerned about the 6% Legend of Chun-Li has on review aggregation site Rotten Tomatoes...

^{Source: Game Daily}