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Fox Studios has announced that Street Fighter: The legend of Chun-li will NOT be screened early for the Critics.
Why should you be worried about this move? Simple, because 95% of the time when a studio does not allow an early press screening means that the studio knows its movie suck.
Let's hope that the legend of Chun-li does fall into that remaining 5% where a studio does not allow a press screening just for the heck of it......Somehow i doubt that :-(
Source: Variety
Oh boy... I thought it couldn't get worse...
ReplyDeleteAhaha,but it does suck!
ReplyDeleteNot quite proof that it sucks, but pretty close. The thing is that when a new movie is coming out they always show the coolest parts in the trailers - well this movie looks horrible in the trailers so the real thing must be a real pile...
ReplyDeleteDo you realized that out of 20 plus films that were so far released in 2009 only about five got screened?
ReplyDeleteHere are the 2009 films that have been have and haven't been screened:
Bride Wars SCREENED
FOX screened Bride Wars and look how much the critics trashed it: http://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/bride_wars/
Production Budget: $30 million - Gross: $96,360,634
The Unborn NOT SCREENED
Production Budget: $16 million - Gross: $49,006,025
Hotel For Dogs NOT SCREENED
Production Budget: $25 million - Gross: $77,342,947
Last Chance Harvey SCREENED
Production Budget: ? - Gross: $13,563,873
My Bloody Valentine 3D NOT SCREENED
Production Budget: $15 million - Gross: $62,110,095
Notorious NOT SCREENED
Production Budget: $20 million - Gross: $38,457,745
Paul Blart: Mall Cop NOT SCREENED
Production Budget: $26 million - Gross: $113,720,998
Revolutionary Road SCREENED
Production Budget: $35 million Gross: $63,711,315
Underworld: Rise Of The Lycans NOT SCREENED
Production Budget: $35 million Gross: $66,278,202
Taken NOT SCREENED
Production Budget: ? - Gross: $152,037,996
The Uninvited NOT SCREENED
Production Budget: ? - Gross: $24,525,753
Coraline SCREENED
Production Budget: $35 million - Gross: $44,729,441
The Pink Panther 2 SCREENED
Another film trashed by the critics after being screened:
http://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/pink_panther_2/?critic=creamcrop
Production Budget: $19 million Gross: $29,596,681
Push NOT SCREENED
Production Budget: $38 million Gross: $22,078,246
Friday The 13th NOT SCREENED
Production Budget: $19 million - Gross: $55,639,083
So out of 15 films listed, five got screened and out of those five, two got horribly trashed by the critics and the other three either hardly made back their money or made less in GROSS than films that weren't even screened.
So screening does NOT mean a successful film.
What an embarrassment to Street Fighter fans all over the globe... well, at least Dragonball fans feel our pain equally or more.
ReplyDeleteBISON: Game.... Ova!!!
ReplyDeleteScreenings are only done to generate good press. If a studio knows they have a bomb on their hands or that it's only going to generate negative reviews, they'll pass. It has no bearing on how much money a film will make. Now that being said, this movie will be a steaming pile and the only cash it makes will be from the fantards around here that go to see it...
ReplyDeleteNow THAT'S funny!!!!
ReplyDeleteHaving been in the industry for over 10 years... an unscreened movie almost for sure means "no confidence" in the product. The only other possibility is to avoid bootleggers.
ReplyDeleteKristin Kreuk and Taboo gotta eat!
ReplyDeleteTruthfully speaking, I don't think the movie will be bad; but decent.
ReplyDeleteI think the reason why the movie isn't going to be screened is because the press' opinions may be different from ours and they don't want the press to influence before we see it, that wouldn't be fair.
they probably just played the game now and realised chun-li actually has thighs unlike Kristen Kreuk
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