Quoted from dfsays:The worldwide box office take for the 5th movie was the lowest since the first one; they peaked at the second one. Seems like a stale, stagnant license to build a pinball machine around.
They all (even the last one) did very well overseas. Maybe the hope is to expand the JJP market? In any case, having that many movies worth of source material is a boon for a licensed game.