Nov 9 2009 'Slammin' Salmon' Poster AND Trailer??? YES
Good news if you like alliteration, fish, and The Green Mile flexing in an aura of wacky faces. There's this new movie from the Broken Lizard people that appears to have all of those things! Here's your trailer:
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Feb 16 2009 Balrog Hates Backing Into Spots
Happy Presidents Day! Your present is a new batch of Street Fighter: The Legend of Chun-Li production stills! I point them out not because they look any better than the rest of the mundane crap we've seen from this movie but, rather, because they're so ridiculously mundane to the point of it being a joke. It's like even the marketing team is trying to keep expectations abysmally low. What is this, Michael Clarke Duncan parallel parking? That's almost as enticing as this shot of Bison sampling various fluids while staring directly at the camera. Or this one of Vega showing us his bare fist instead of the giant metal claw on his other hand. If this production releases any more photos, I'll be shocked if they're anything better than driver's license photos.
Jan 21 2009 'Street Fighter' Poster Guy Read That 'Cool Scroll Effect' Tutorial
What are they waiting for on the poster where the Street Fighter characters are literally jumping out of the arcade console to the delighted surprise of a pair of 14-year-old video game players? They have to know that's what we want. Or at least what I want.
Jan 7 2009 'Street Fighter the Chun-Li' Trailer Gets Domestic
Since everyone was loving that Japanese version of the Street Fighter trailer from last week, here's the higher quality English edition from IGN. Now you can truly hear the powerful narration describing the delicate balance between two primary forces in our universe. Good and evil? Light and dark? So you'd think! No, it's beauty and terror. Those two are constantly at odds. The simultaneous existence of both Heidi Klum and Osama bin Laden is all that has kept our world from either plummeting into pure and utter terror or exploding in a makeup-filled rainbow of absolute beauty. That is why we must fight in streets to maintain that fragile equilibrium.
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Jan 5 2009 'Street Fighter' Still Fighting For Us, With Posters
Let's start off the new year the right way: with another Street Fighter poster. If it's street fighting, why is Michael Clarke Duncan so prominently holding a gun? Is the bottom guy Iron Man? Have you ever tried simultaneously jump-kicking and jump-punching someone? Can I use this logo for my multicultural dojo? 2009 is going to be great.
The New Street Fighter Poster [Coming Soon]
Dec 29 2008 Welp, This Is What 'Street Fighter' Looks Like
Are you ready for some intense street fighting action? How about some fairly lame street fighting action of a quality that will have you continually asking when Steven Seagal is going to show up? Because that's what I have for you with the teaser trailer for Street Fighter: The Legend of Chun-Li. The voice-over is all Japanese, but I'm pretty sure it's just someone repeatedly saying, "What were you expecting?"
And Bison has a goatee:
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Jul 31 2008 First Look at Balrog from 'Street Fighter', or Maybe Just a Dude with a Gun
Man, they really nailed a couple of broad physical traits (being large, black), and totally got the name right. Street Fighter is definitely on the right track. I don't want to get too over-excited, but I have a feeling this is going to be The Dark Knight of video game movies. Except that the characters in this won't so much be darker, more realistic versions of themselves as much as completely unrecognizable. And instead of being hailed as a breakthrough in the genre, it will be shit.
New Set Photos: Street Fighter: The Legend of Chun-Li [/Film]
Feb 19 2008 'Street Fighter' Adds Duncan, Klein, Black Eyed Pea
After the worthless 1994 effort and every other awful video game movie to come out since, I didn't know it was possible to make me care less about a Street Fighter movie. Yet, somehow, they've found away: casting the incredible blandness of Chris Klein, Michael Clarke Duncan, and one of the Black Eyed Peas (also Rick Yune, whom I'm not familiar enough with to consider boring).
Kreuk, who plays Lana Lang in the CW's "Smallville," will star as martial artist Chun-Li. Duncan will play Balrog, while Klein is stepping into the role of Nash. Yune is taking on the mystical Gen.Rounding out the cast are Moon Bloodgood, Taboo from the Black Eyed Peas, Singapore's Edmund Chen and Hong Kong film star Cheng Pei Pei.
In a sense, it's genius casting. Dimensionless video game characters played by vaguely similar-looking dimensionless actors. And a Black Eyed Pea.
Kreuk, Duncan cruise 'Street' [Variety]
