Monday, May 12, 2008

Box Office Report: Speed Racer Crashes

The creators of "The Matrix" must have run out of gas.

Their extremely expensive, extremely-panned remake of the extremely-popular anime series "Speed Racer" pulled in just over $20 million its opening weekend, only a 1/5 of Iron Man's last weekend. The movie's numbers are even more pathetic when the cost of $100 million to make the clunker is factored in. Rotten Tomatoes, which counts the number of reviews a movie gets, gave the movie a "rotten" rating, with only 35% of reviews being positive.

"Iron Man" is still riding high from last week's high, still sitting at the top spot with $50 million brought in this weekend. The movie has, so far, brought in $177 million.

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