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The Live-Action Street Fighter Movie Curse Has Yet To Be Broken

The Live-Action Street Fighter Movie Curse Has Yet To Be Broken https://ift.tt/0KrB13v Street Fighter has long been more than just a fighting game. It’s impossible to discuss the most popular video game characters of all time without mentioning Chun-Li, Ryu, or Ken. For many of us, it shaped our '90s childhood at the arcade and served as our introduction to the fighting-game genre. It also has inspired multiple movies, comic books, an anime series and manga, on top of endless collaborations with other fighting game and comic book franchises. Street Fighter's massive popularity is also a curse when it comes to live-action video game adaptations: 1994's Street Fighter and 2009's Street Fighter: The Legend of Chun-Li were poorly received, despite both films having big budgets and being hyped among fans. The franchise failing twice as live-action films was an embarrassment to Capcom, so it's no surprise fans would be concerned about a third attempt at creating a de...
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Madame Web Box Office: How Did The Movie Do In Its First Weekend?

Madame Web Box Office: How Did The Movie Do In Its First Weekend? https://ift.tt/XMSgmIj

The Spider Man spin-off movie Madame Web from Sony Pictures opened on Valentine's Day, and the early box office results were not great. However, the movie is doing slightly better than some expected, bringing in $52 million worldwide for its opening period.

This was an abnormal opening period, as the film opened on Wednesday, February 14, and these numbers cover a six-day period spanning through Monday, February 19 for the Presidents' Day holiday. The movie earned $26 million over six days in the US and, as mentioned, $52 million worldwide over that time span.

The movie was estimated to have cost $80 million to produce (prior to marketing expenses), which means it has not yet broken even. However, Deadline reported that, due to the solid box office results so far, the movie will not "suffer as much as originally feared."

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