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Reel Suite - May 13, 2008

May 13, 2008 4:40 PM | | Comments (1) | TrackBacks (0)

 
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Well, the consensus among us industry bean counters today is that Speed Racer has pretty much ruined the movie business.  I received frantic phone calls from every one of my counterparts in town, and quite frankly they were astonished and scared.  I half expected to look out my window and see frogs falling from the sky.  Costing an estimated $150 million, Racer sputtered to a debut of just $18.6 million, down from the $20.2 million that was projected Sunday, taking third place behind that Kutcher-Diaz movie, which I understand was penned by Downs Syndrome kids.  Warners should have seen this coming.  The movie was only tracking 6.1 out of a possible 10 among moviegoers age 12-25.  Emile Hirsch has fired UTA.  The Wachowski Brothers are reportedly each looking for a new brother.
 
Manka Bros. passed on Speed Racer two years ago, and it looks like we dodged a bullet.  But since it was one of my favorite cartoons as a child and I had read the script, I was curious to see it.  So after a light lunch at Applebees in Hemet, California, I took my elderly mom to see the movie for Mother's Day.  She wanted to see Made of Honor but I convinced her that its ineffectual quality would cause a dangerous spike in her glucose levels.  Besides, I always equate watching the Racer cartoon with my mother, who would sit me on the floor in front of our old Zenith, fire up a Doral unfiltered, then vacuum the area immediately around me, ramming the vacuum head into my bare legs.  I could never hear the dialogue from the show, so I made up my own, which I repeated endlessly at the dinner table.  Mother, a Rob Roy in hand, would drown me out by humming "My Guy" over and over, staring at the ceiling, a crooked smile painted on her face.  The slam of the front door meant stepdaddy was home, and it was time for me to hide in the hamper.  But I had my Speed Racer action figures and cars to keep me company.
 
Well, mother didn't care for the film, or the poor air circulation, or the stale popcorn.  I would occasionally look over and catch her glaring at me, nostrils flared, lips pursed.  Afterwards, she grumbled all the way into the lobby, flagged down a maintenance worker, then beat my legs with his vacuum handle.  Needless to say, it was a tension-filled ride back to mom's single-wide mobile home.
 
Paramount is looking to have a record year at the b.o., with the healthy domestic and international returns on Marvel's Iron Man, and the high profile Indiana Jones 4 looming on the horizon. 

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Manka Bros.' summer hopeful Cephalopod is tracking well in Finland and Burma, among other international strongholds.  Among teens it scored an awareness factor of 2.3, up from 2.1 last weekend.

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John Perry said:

I don't what others think - but Cephalopod looks awesome!

May 13, 2008 9:31 PM

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