Iron Man Crushes Speed Racer

Iron Man continues to crush the competition with domestic receipts totalling $177.1 million, and the international total reaching a whopping $276.1 million.

Speed Racer, which cost $200 million, has been a huge bomb this weekend with opening receipts totalling a dismal $20.2 million. Bombs don’t get much worse than this. Looks like Christina Ricci will need to keep working on her silver screen comeback.

Some of the other studios are claiming that Warner Brothers isn’t fudging the total take for Speed Racer, to make it look like they had a second place finish. If that’s true, then Speed Racer is a complete disaster.

Robert Downey Jr., who played Tony Stark in Iron Man, is already signed to reprise his role in the Iron Man sequel scheduled to be released in April of 2010.

Iron Man Tops the Box Office

Iron Man turned out to be the blockbuster I predicted. The film is the first independent movie for Marvel Studios. Iron Man made $104.3 million domestically, and another $96.7 million in 57 other countries, for a total weekend gross of $201 million.

Iron Man’s gross earnings was the second best premiere for a non-sequel film in history. The film that barely beat Iron Man was Spider Man which brought in $114.8 million.

The man who made this movie work was Robert Downey Jr., who fell into drug addiction, and rose back to the top of the Hollywood industry. Above is a backstage pass interview with Downey.

The top 10 movies this weekend were.

• Iron Man, $104.3 million
• Made of Honor, $15.5 million
• Baby Mama, $10.3 million
• Forgetting Sarah Marshall, $6.1 million
• Harold and Kumar Escape from Guantanamo Bay, $6 million
• The Forbidden Kingdom, $4.2 million
• Nim’s Island, $2.8 million
• Prom Night, $2.5 million
• 21, $2.1 million
• 88 Minutes, $1.6 million

Iron Man Trailer Before It’s Official

The Iron Man trailer from Comic-Con 2007 is the only one you’ll see until the official trailer is released later this month. Robert Downey Jr. looks like he’s back in this one. He’s always been one of my favorite actors, until he got hooked on heroin, and started sleeping in the gutter. There used to be a television series called Iron Man, and I’d always hoped I could get a hold of the Iron Man suit for just a little while to kick some bullies butts, but then I learned it was just a television show. I suppose I’d still have both my legs if I had that suit when I needed it, but you know what, being a cripple makes it easy to pick up chicks with bleeding hearts, so it all worked out for the best.

Click below to watch the video…

CLICK HERE TO READ THE REST OF THE STORY …