WHAT A DISASTER! 'Speed Racer' $20M Weekend Half What Warner Bros Hoped; Overseas Take Dismal, Too

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Honoring Our Favorite TV Moms: Gilmore’s Mrs. Kim
Published 5/11/2008 by Greg at RTVW Online
... RSS E! Online Idol's Stage Dad: Out! Who You Calling a Non-Mom? Lost Makes Good on Missing Episodes Justin Phones Home for MTV Britney Has Met Her Match RSS Hollywood Reporter Jennie Garth joins '90210' spinoff Fox picks up 'Fringe,' 'Sit Down' Jamie Roberts leaving GSN CW teams with MRC for primetime block Schwarzenegger seeks boost in tax incentive RSS Deadline Hollywood WHAT A DISASTER! 'Speed Racer' $20M Weekend Half What Warner Bros Hoped Primetime Pilot ...

Even WORSE Than Expected
Published 5/11/2008 by Perez Hilton at Celebrity gossip juicy celebrity rumors Hollywood gossip blog from Perez Hilton
... The film reportedly took in $20.2 million, but rival studios think Warner Bros. is lying about that number, so they can claim a second place finish. ...

Top 10 Signs You're Movie Career is Going to Crash & Burn
Published 5/12/2008 by Furious D (noreply@blogger.com) at The Fantastic Adventures of Furious D
... 10. You have to fiddle with the numbers so people don't find out your big budget movie was beaten at the box office by Ashton Kutcher. I mean for the love of Jumping German Jimmy Olsen, Ashton-fucking-Kutcher! ...

Multiplex Mayhem: The Finish Line
Published 5/12/2008 by Bob Westal at Premium Hollywood - Entertainment blog, Hollywood blog, movie blog, TV blog
... * The congenitally jaundiced Nikki Finke is suspicious, but the official reports as of this writing is that the Wachowski Brothers’ “ ...

Did Warner Bros. Inflate Estimates for ‘Speed Racer’ So They Wouldn't Lose to Ashton Kutcher?
Published 5/12/2008 at Vulture -- Entertainment, Music, Culture, Theater, Movies, Art -- New York Magazine Blog
... "Their estimate is utterly laughable," one executive (presumably from 20th Century Fox) told Nikki Finke yesterday. Even more laughable, though, is that Ashton Kutcher's What Happens in Vegas… made an undisputed $20 million, meaning that if Warner did lie about its numbers, it was only to claim hollow victory over the movie ...

WB Overestimates 'Speed Racer' and Looks Bad Doing It
Published 5/12/2008 at RopeofSilicon: Latest Headlines
Nikki Finke at Deadline Hollywood Daily posted yesterday a quote from an anonymous Fox representative speaking of the estimated $20.2 million earned by Warner Bros. release ...

LINKAGE
Published 5/13/2008 by Scott Macaulay (noreply@blogger.com) at Filmmaker Magazine
... that the BBC has shown the way forward with this initiative, which will make a real difference to British film producers,” said Andrea Calderwood, Pact’s vice chair of feature film and topper at Slate Films. “Independent producers put a lot of investment -- of commitment as well as money -- into their films to make them happen, and this will give them the chance to make a proper return on their investment.” The trades and blogs were full this weekend of the now all-too-familiar box-office schadenfreude that occurs when a studio tentpole tanks. Over at her Spout blog, Karina ...

SPEED RACER UPGRADED TO SH!TSTORM
Published 5/13/2008 at FilmDrunk.com
... Some are even accusing Warner Bros. execs of deliberately overestimating the gross. Nikki Finke quoted a studio exec yesterday saying, "That's a very aggressive Sunday estimate to try and claim 2nd," and it's looking like he was right.  Today ...

Review: Speed Racer
Published 5/13/2008 at Row Three
... cheesy dialog, over the top acting – it was all in the trailers but while most were writing the film off as a loser, I kept my chin up and stood behind my initial reaction: if nothing else, this would be a fun watch. Secretly, I hoped that the Wachowski’s would prove the critics wrong and that the film would be both a critical and financial success. Neither of my wishes came true. Instead, the film has become the latest victim of box office disaster and scrutiny, especially after the weekend numbers debacle not to mention that general consensus among critics is that the film ...