Remember the Live action Street Fighter Movie from 1994? Well, in 2024, the film will still bring Capcom “tens of millions of yen” per year, according to data from a recent shareholder meeting.
Published in 1994, the live action Street Fighter Movie was a kitschy and colorful free adaptation of Street Fighter II. It starred Jean-Claude Van Damme as Guile and Raul Julia as M. Bison. This was famously Julia’s last film role before he died in October of that year, shortly before the film’s release. Although the film is sometimes referred to as a cult classic today, it’s worth remembering that the adaptation of Capcom’s popular fighting game series was a box office smash in 1994, grossing nearly $100 million against a reported $35 million budget. And it’s apparently still making Capcom money all these years later.
As first reported by AutomatonMedia on 24 Junesuch a person who attended Capcom’s shareholders meeting on June 20The Monster Hunter And resident Evil The publisher still earns “tens of millions of yen” from the 1994 live-action adaptation Street Fighter film every year. I’m not sure why Capcom decided to include this strange information in its important meeting with investors and shareholders, but that’s the way it is.
Before you run off to tell people that Capcom is still making a lot of money with its not so great Street Fighter Movie, let’s translate what “tens of millions of yen” actually means. It could mean that Capcom earns as much as only 70,000 US dollars or as much as $590,000 per year from that Street Fighter film. I would say it is somewhere in the middle, around $300,000. That is not enough money to finance the next resident Evil Wild or something similar to wild, but hey, it might be enough to pay some of the employees’ salaries.
Now that I think about it, I understand why Capcom is so boastful. If I made something awful in the ’90s and could still get paid a few thousand dollars every year for decades, I’d be pretty damn stoked, too.
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