You know that $20.2 million figure from Monday for Speed Racer? Apparently that was an over-optimistic estimate by Warner Brothers for the weekend.
Actual numbers are out now, and they say that Speed Racer actually made a paltry $18.6 million over the weekend, placing it at 3rd place behind the 2nd weekend of Iron Man and What Happened in Vegas, earning it a lousy $5,147 per screen. That’s $1,716 per screen per day. At the national average ticket price of $6.88, that’s 249 people per screen per day, or probably something around 50 to 60 people per screening. Ouch.
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So does this constitute a box office bomb?
Personally, I may have considered going to watch it if it wasn’t for the trailer. Instead of it making me want to see the movie, it made me want to stay the hell away from it. I wonder if there are others out there that felt the same way.
It’s not a bad movie; I liked it. It wasn’t fantastic, but worth a watch.
Disappointed that it barely made any money.
Maybe it will get a cult following for the DVD release.
That would be nice. It’s certainly set up for that, considering that the word from most people who have actually seen it seems to be overall positive.