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SR Pick [Video]: Two New ‘Street Fighter’ Short Films Look Good

Paul Young — Thu, 06 May 2010 00:24:26 +0000

[UPDATE: A longer clip from Street Fighter: Legacy has been added.]

How often have we talked about the bad, horrible and all around poor attempts at bringing fighting style video games to the big screen? The unfortunate list has several bad adaptations on it: Mortal Kombat, Mortal Kombat 2, Dead or Alive, Tekken, King of Fighters, Dragonball Evolution, Street Fighter: Legend of Chun Li and the one that started it all; Street Fighter. Of those, only the first Mortal Kombat is really considered to be “good.”

A few guys with nothing but a dream, some martial arts skills and some friends with some rather fancy camera work/SFX abilities have made two short films on how they think Street Fighter should have looked and to be honest, they aren’t that bad.

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Are They Making Mortal Kombat 3?

Rob Keyes — Thu, 09 Jul 2009 02:07:21 +0000

Ever heard of Chris Casamassa? Probably not, but you may have seen him. He’s the martial arts master who played the role of Scorpion in the first Mortal Kombat movie and in a few episodes of Mortal Kombat: Conquest, the TV series.

Fortunately, he wasn’t part of the terrible sequel, titled Annihilation. Come to think of it, the vast majority of the cast didn’t make it back for the sequel…

Well, Casamassa will be back as Scorpion again… in another Mortal Kombat movie. Who knew?

Alex over at First Showing picked up on a story by the SGV Tribune where they interviewed the martial artist/actor. Casamassa, who now instructs and is the president of Red Dragon Karate, revealed that he’s set to start shooting a third Mortal Kombat film this September. It was seemingly a general ...

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New Watchmen and Street Fighter TV Spots

Rob Keyes — Sun, 15 Feb 2009 22:35:36 +0000

Two brand new TV spots for Watchmen and Street Fighter: The Legend of Chun-Li have popped up online; one amazing, one not so much – you can probably guess which one’s which.

Warner Brothers is sure pumping up the marketing as we get closer the release date of Watchmen (less than three weeks away!). This new short trailer is awesome and the background music is epic as always – They sure know how to make a good trailer! Remember how good The Dark Knight trailers were?

The other trailer is for Street Fighter: The Legend of Chun-Li and nothing in it excites me. For a movie strictly based only on fighting, the fighting is poor compared to other movies like Ninja Assassin or even the few fight scenes we’ve seen from Watchmen.

Watch and enjoy!

Street ...

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Bunch Of New Street Fighter Pictures

Vic Holtreman — Fri, 13 Feb 2009 20:48:50 +0000

Some of these Street Fighter pictures may have already been out but I know that there are a bunch of new ones here. I still think this may turn out to be cheesy, but what’s interesting is that with every new trailer and batch of pictures this movie looks more and more serious.

I still don’t have high hopes for this, but these images actually look pretty good. Check ‘em out:

Michael Clarke Duncan as Balrog

Neal McDonough as Bison

Josie Ho as Cantana

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New Street Fighter Movie Poster Is Fan-Made

Carl Lee — Thu, 22 Jan 2009 20:13:43 +0000

[UPDATE: Sorry folks, looks like the poster below is fan-made. Bummer, it looks better than the actual posters. Here's the proof. Thanks to "Wasabi Steak" for pointing it out. - Vic ]

After the wildly “artistic” poster and the fittingly-ignored original, Street Fighter: The Legend of Chun-Li has decided to release yet another to rally support and generate buzz. But there’s just one problem, it’s boring and fails as well.

This latest poster features still characters (some unidentified), and an ancient scroll feel. The change in slogan is a good replacement for the weak tag line: “Some Fight for Power. Some Fight for Us.” The new phrases are closer to what it should be – after all this is (supposedly) one character’s story.

The supporting cast is framed vertically creating the back wall for the main character. Unlike the original, there’s no silhouette of two fighters ...

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Bizarre New Street Fighter Movie Poster

Ross Miller — Mon, 05 Jan 2009 15:54:27 +0000

A new poster for the newest live-action Street Fighter movie subtitled The Legend of Chun-Li has made its way online. The movie, directed by Andrzej Bartkowiak (Doom, Cradle 2 The Grave), is a PG-13 adaptation of the popular video game. It will star Kristin Kreuk, Michael Clarke Duncan, Neal McDonough, Taboo, Chris Klein, Moon Bloodgood, Edmund Chen, Cheng Pei Pei, Josie Ho and Robin Shou.

Check out the poster below:

(Horrible) Street Fighter movie poster

It surprises me just how much that poster doesn’t work…

I can see what they’re going for – trying to be a bit different (edgier, perhaps?) than other films in the genre have been in the past, but it just looks cheesy and kind of silly (although it’s certainly better than the terrible first poster). To be honest it took me a few seconds ...

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New (Japanese) ‘Street Fighter’ Trailer

Carl Lee — Mon, 29 Dec 2008 18:51:54 +0000

There’s a new trailer online and it’s for Street Fighter: The Legend of Chun-Li. Hey it’s Monday and the last week of the year, forgive us for not fabricating our own news. We’ll just keep our Batman 3 rumors to ourselves.

Up until now, we’ve heard and seen very little about this movie. And so far, what we have seen has been in Japanese. Today is no different – a trailer has debuted on the official (Japanese) site: StreetFighter-Movie.gyao.jp.

Is anyone else beginning to wonder whether this will be released anywhere other than Japan?

Produced by Fox, the live-action adaptation of Street Fighter arrives two months before Dragonball. Now I know what you’re thinking… but this one doesn’t look too bad (at least compared to what we’ve seen of the Dragonball movie ...

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Lame New Poster For Street Fighter Movie

Rob Keyes — Tue, 14 Oct 2008 18:30:21 +0000

20th Century Fox has unveiled The Japanese website and first poster for the upcoming Street Fighter: The Legend of Chun-Li. This doesn’t seem to have anything to do with to Jean-Claude Van Damme’s Street Fighter film of 1994 which I thought was pretty fun (and funny) as a 9 year old.

That being said, I probably couldn’t bear to watch the entire thing all the way through again without the aid of alcoholic beverages.

The Japanese website can be found at StreetFighter-Movie.gyao.jp although it has nothing on it other than this picture as of yet.

Have a look at the poster and see what you think:

Street Fighter is based on the classic and once-super-popular Capcom video game franchise of the same name. It stars Kristin Kreuk of Smallville fame as the lead character Chun Li (played by Ming-Na in ...

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