During a PR interview, Capcom's Head of Character Content Business, Toshihiro Tokumaru, talked about his role in the company. As he sees it, it's important for Capcom to develop its internal IPs in as many entertainment industries as possible, and that includes film.

"As a game company, we try hard [to] make use of the content we create in multiple mediums," said Tokumaru. "Looking ahead to the coming digital era, film is one medium that will continue to expand and thrive. One way I believe our company has been successful is in our ability to leverage our IPs to the motion picture and video market, while still strategically developing those IPs internally."

"Take Resident Evil for example, we licensed the rights to make a movie out to a German company called Constantin Film AG," he added. "In doing so, all rights for the movie were ascribed to Constantin Film AG. Granted, in the end we got a very well-made motion picture that was a hit around the world, and spurred sales of our video games and other merchandise. But, because we handed over rights to the movie, we couldn't freely use any of the finished product. In hindsight this seems unfortunate, so in the future, we'd like to create films where we retain the rights."

Tokumaru confirmed that Capcom was looking to be more directly involved in future films and have them be joint ventures with Hyde Park Entertainment. After talking extensively about the production of the upcoming film Street Fighter: The Legend of Chun-Li, he mentioned in passing that the upcoming Lost Planet movie "will cost somewhere between 150 and 200 million dollars to make." This would put the Avi Arad produced, David Hayter written film in roughly the same range of blockbusters like The Dark Knight, which cost roughly $185 million to make. The rights to the Lost Planet movie have apparently been licensed out to a third-party, keeping Capcom's personal investment in the film to a minimum.