hollywoodreporter.com - 5/6/2008
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"Speed Racer" seems stuck in the slow lane. The Wachowski siblings-directed film opens Friday in about 3,600 theaters, and it has been considered one of Warner Bros.' tentpole releases of the summer boxoffice season. But the PG-rated "Speed Racer" -- a big-screen adaptation of the Japanese cartoon of the '60s and '70s -- has been tracking unimpressively in prerelease surveys. That suddenly ...
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Will ‘Speed Racer’ Fail With Flying Colors?
Vulture —
... institutionalized, shackled by straitjackets limiting their access to Fandango? Or that the simple act of watching the trailer on YouTube hypnotized everyone we know into buying a copy of Catcher in the Rye and climbing a water tower? Is the PG rating scaring off those who'd planned to see it under the influence of peyote? Good, because that'll make it a lot easier for us to run through the aisles raving in a made-up language when we see it on Imax on Friday night.
'Speed Racer' tracking unimpressively [HR]
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TV Squad —
... Anyway, the live-action version with Emile Hirsch, Christina Ricci, John Goodman, and Matthew Fox opens this Friday. And the early buzz is that it's not going to do as well as they were hoping it would. ...
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What Are You Going To See This Weekend? - May 9th Edition
sizzlingpopcorn.com 5/7/2008 — Last weekend, we saw Iron Man gross $102 million domestically and over $200 million worldwide. This weekend marks the opening of Warner Bros.’s Speed Racer . How will it perform in its opening weekend compared to Iron Man?
'Iron Man' propels Europe into summer —
Variety.com 5/6/2008
International News: Pic tops charts in major territories -- “Iron Man” did not buckle under the weight of expectation in its debut frame in Europe, where it got the summer blockbuster season off to a start in some style.
The Weekend Warrior: May 9 - 11 —
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