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Pink Is The New Blog found this 5/11/2008 on www.ew.com [flag]
The summer of 2008 is only two weeks old, and it already has its first flop. Speed Racer , the Wachowski Brothers' kaleidoscopic retelling of the classic cartoon series, got stuck in neutral this weekend, grossing a mere $20.2 million, according to Sunday's estimates — a disastrous sum for a movie that cost well in excess of $100 mil and that Warner Bros. had considered one of its major summer ... [link]

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Hate To Say I Told You So
Published 5/11/2008 by TRENT (noreply@blogger.com) at Pink Is The New Blog
Bad news for Warner Bros. Studios and the Wachowski Brothers at the box office this weekend ... their $100+ million dollar "summer blockbuster" Speed Racer ...

'Speed Racer' crashes as the Box Office Challenge motors on
Published 5/14/2008 by Pop Watch at Entertainment Weekly's PopWatch
... Speed Racer may have put on the brakes at the box office last weekend (in actual fact, he barely even really got his gears running, grossing a worse-than-disappointing $18.6 mil in his debut). But it was full speed ahead for ...

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Warner Bros.’ Speed Racer was absolutely no competition for Paramount’s Iron Man
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'Speed Racer' gets passed in its debut (AP)

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AP - "Speed Racer" was lapped in its opening weekend at the box office as "Iron Man" continued to fire its jets with $50.5 million in ticket sales, according to studio estimates Sunday.
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