Iron Man Soars Above Competition at North American Box Office
Iron Man battered the competition for the second consecutive weekend as an estimated $50.5m haul through Paramount Pictures raised the running total to $177.1m.The result consolidated the Marvel Studios adaptation as the season’s first bona fide blockbuster and relegated new openers Speed Racer from Warner Bros and What Happens In Vegas from Fox to second and third, respectively.
Box office was up 21% against the same weekend last year as the top 12 films combined for $128m. Year-on-year 2008 still trails 2007 by some 2.5% at this stage in the game.
Speed Racer disappointed on $20.2m. The family film was adapted from the 1960s Japanese anime television series by Andy and Larry Wachowski in their first outing as directors since The Matrix Revolutions opened in 2003.
Emile Hirsch stars as a talented racing driver in a high profile cast alongside Christina Ricci, John Goodman, Susan Sarandon and Matthew Fox.
Opening in third place on $20m was the romantic comedy What Happens In Vegas with Cameron Diaz and Ashton Kutcher. By the time actual results are confirmed on Monday, What Happens In Vegas and Speed Racer may switch places. Read the rest of this entry
‘Speed Racer’ World Premiere Photo Gallery
Warner Bros Presents the World Premiere of Speed Racer starring Emile Hirsch, Christina Ricci, Christian Oliver, Susan Sarandon and Matthew Fox.Emile Hirsch, Christina Ricci, Matthew Fox, John Goodman, Susan Sarandon, Rain, Aimee Teegarden, Stanton Barrett, Rick Schroder, Emmy Rossum, Christian Oliver, Lisa Rinna, Dancer Karina Smirnoff and many others walked down the red carpet of the World Premiere of Speed Racer held at the Nokia Theatre in Los Angeles, CA.
‘Speed Racer’ International Movie Trailer
Few directors have ever pushed the envelope of visual filmmaking quite like The Wachowski Brothers. In 1999, they showed the world bullet-time in The Matrix and continued to wow us all the way through the trilogy. Say what you want about the last two films, but there is no denying that they looked sweet.
The same can be said for their upcoming film Speed Racer, which will be thrust into theaters on May 9th after making its world premiere on opening night at the Tribeca Film Festival. You may not dig actor Emile Hirsch (and I do not), you may think that the film looks goofy and cartoony (as many people do) and you may think that The Wachowskis have lost their marbles (we question whether they had any to begin with), but one thing is for sure: Speed Racer is going to be unlike anything we’ve seen in a long time.
Watch the trailer in High Definition at SpeedRacerTheMovie.com
Four New ‘Speed Racer’ Posters
Yahoo! has put up four new posters for the upcoming “Speed Racer” movie, which include one general poster and three character ones featuring Speed (Emile Hirsch), Trixie (Christina Ricci) and Racer X (Matthew Fox).
‘Speed Racer’ - Two Brand New International Trailers
The studio that brought “10,000 B.C.” and “I Am Legend” Warner Bros. Pictures have released two brand new international trailers of the upcoming family movie “Speed Racer“. The trailers each last for about one and a half minutes and contain pretty much the same compilation of clips with different sequences.
The trailers showcase many never before seen footages from the highly anticipated film by the Wachowski brothers. The two video footages give out glimpses to the hard-core racing competition where a slightest mistake can cause a devastating result. Unlike the domestic trailer, these international trailers let out much of the animation parts from the film starring Emile Hirsch and Matthew Fox.
Scheduled to be opened simultaneously in conventional theaters and IMAX, “Speed Racer” will bow on May 9. The film follows Speed Racer, a natural behind the wheel race car driver, who follows racing competition to save his family racing business.
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