The 1994 Street Fighter movie took a fantasy approach to the video game. Street Fighter: The Legend of Chun-Li attempts to be more grounded in reality, at least the way star Kristin Kreuk approached it.
Kristen Kreuk Talks Street Fighter: The Legend of Chun-Li
“I think it’s really important, at least in this story, to be earnest with the characters because you want people to relate to them while they go through the movie,” Kreuk said. “I think it’s really important that the fighting is really good, but you want to be able to root for the individual, and that means that the character has got to be relatable, in some way. If they’re really over-the-top, it’s harder to relate to them, in this style of a movie. If it was something else, I think it would be different.”
It may come up short of the $31 million Miley Cyrus’ 3-D movie bowed to, but Jonas Brothers: 3-D Concert Experience did come out on top of Friday’s estimates with a $4.8 million opening, on tap for a $20 million weekend. That was just enough to unseat last weekend’s top dog, Madea Goes to Jail ($4.6 million), which will likely top $60 million after just its second week. Friday’s third-place spot went to Slumdog Millionaire ($3.2 million), on pace for a nice post-Oscar bump thanks in part to Fox Searchlight adding 700 runs this frame. And fourth-place Taken ($2.85 million) is set to break $100 million after just four weeks in release.
Confessions of a Shopaholic
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Confessions of a Shopaholic is an upcoming 2009 film adaptation of the novels The Secret Dreamworld of a Shopaholic (Confessions of a Shopaholic in US) and Shopaholic Abroad (Shopaholic takes Manhattan in US) by British chick lit author Sophie Kinsella, using the novel’s American title Confessions of a Shopaholic. It …
Friday the 13th
Friday the 13th is an upcoming 2009 American horror film directed by Marcus Nispel, and written by Damian Shannon and Mark Swift. It is a reboot of the Friday the 13th film series, whose last film was the 2003 crossover film Freddy vs. Jason. Nispel also helmed the 2003 remake …
