"Speed Racer" Crashed in the Box Office - We Told You So!
Written by Jay on May 13, 2008 – -
I’ll say this before and I’ll say it again, “Speed Racer” just wasn’t going to do good. And I could’ve told you this the minute I saw the previews, whenever that was. But the final numbers are in at the box office, and “Speed Racer” actually dropped down to third place finish behind “What Happens in Vegas!” Like I said in the title, “We Told You So!”
I know that seems pretty childish but we went on record a few posts ago stating that we wouldn’t be surprised if “What Happens in Vegas” actually overtook the second spot from “Speed Racer.”
So, originally, “Speed Racer” was estimated at $20.2M for the opening weekend box office but as of Monday, the totals ended up being $18.6M which moved them down to a third place opening day weekend finish in the box office.
With those totals, The Wachowski brothers’ movie came about $1.6M short of earlier studio estimates and definitely, and I mean, definitely came up really short of expectations; espcially with all he hype that the movie got.
What makes it worse, particularly for the studio, owned byTime Warner, is the fact that they spent their $120 million budget. And if I did my math correctly, that means someone has to come u with $100M or someone is going to be pissed!
Well, that’s the entertainment business for you. You win some… but most of the time you don’t live up to expectations!
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May 13th, 2008 at
its so depressing to see speed racer crash and burn like that..i really expected it to kick iron man off the charts..check out this crazy stand up comedy clip i found about crappy cars..wonder if speed would look just as hot riding one of these..funniest thing ive seen in months
http://effinfunny.com/jackie-kashian/piece-o-sh%2At-car
enjoy:)
May 13th, 2008 at
The Wachowski bros certainly put a lot of effort into making Speed Racer… but the movie overall looked and felt like a cross between anime, a kaleidoscope, that Flintstones movie, a video game and the Dukes of Hazard
May 17th, 2008 at
this will go down as one of the biggest money making disasters in years and just about everyone knew it was going to fail. Let’s be honest - no one really wanted to see this movie made in the first place. it is not superman, or batman, or spiderman.
This is a perfect case of some completely ego filled decisions being made by soem producers and higher up people who ignored common sense to let these directors make this monumental bust.
we all seem to forget that the matrix was a lucky hit. no one saw it coming. does that mean that The Wachowski bros are actually good directors - not at all.