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'Speed' Could Be a Wreck at the Box Office
'Speed' Could Be a Wreck at the Box Office
By
Steve Mason
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Thursday, May 01, 2008
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- Warner Bros. and the Wachowski brothers may need to call for a tow truck.
Speed Racer
, the big-budget adaptation of the popular late '60s anime cartoon classic, remains in the "slow lane," according to the most recent industry tracking.
Studio sources are attempting to explain away the bad tracking by saying that family films never score particularly well in advance audience surveys, but there's something fundamentally wrong in the numbers that have been described to me.
Un-Aided Awareness, an excellent measure of buzz and anticipation, is stronger for
The Chronicles of Narnia: Prince Caspian
than it is for
Speed Racer
. And the
Narnia
sequel won't hit theaters until May 16, one week after
Speed
opens.
The bad news doesn't stop there.
Narnia
also out-tracks the
Emile Hirsch
-
Christina Ricci
-starring racing flick in the Definite Interest and in the all-important First Choice. Yes, there are some kids unrepresented in the tracking, but this has all of the makings of a disastrous roll-over car wreck.
One exec from a competing studio says Warner Bros. will be lucky to steer
Speed Racer
to $35M on opening weekend.
On the flipside, the
Narnia
tracking suggests that it will have no problem opening above the 2005 original's $65.5M the following Friday. Even if word-of-mouth for
Speed Racer
is positive, there likely won't be time for it to get any traction with family audiences before being swamped by Prince Caspian.
That means that the likely ceiling for the Wachowski brainchild is a disappointing $75M-$80M.
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