As for Speed Racer, IO is right to say that The Second Weekend of the Summer looks crappy on paper.
What is unique about it, however, is that there is a limited history of major releases on that date.
The Matrix Reloaded – which opened to $92 million and is still in the Top Ten All-Time for May, with $282 million at the box office
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It shows how out of it I was in trying to be in it, acknowledging that I was out of it to myself, and then thinking, “Okay, how do I stop being out of it? Well, I get some legitimate illogical narrative ideas” — some novel, you know?
So I decided on three writers that I might be able to option their material and get some producer, or myself as producer, and then get some writer to do a screenplay on it, and maybe make a movie.
And so the three projects were “Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep,” “Naked Lunch” and a collection of Bukowski. Which, in 1975, forget it — I mean, that was nuts. Hollywood would not touch any of that, but I was looking for something commercial, and I thought that all of these things were coming.
There would be no Blade Runner if there was no Ray Bradbury. I couldn’t find Philip K. Dick. His agent didn’t even know where he was. And so I gave up.
I was walking down the street and I ran into Bradbury — he directed a play that I was going to do as an actor, so we know each other, but he yelled “hi” — and I’d forgot who he was.
So at my girlfriend Barbara Hershey’s urging — I was with her at that moment — she said, “Talk to him! That guy really wants to talk to you,” and I said “No, fuck him,” and keep walking.
But then I did, and then I realized who it was, and I thought, “Wait, he’s in that realm, maybe he knows Philip K. Dick.” I said, “You know a guy named—” “Yeah, sure — you want his phone number?”
My friend paid my rent for a year while I wrote, because it turned out we couldn’t get a writer. My friends kept on me about, well, if you can’t get a writer, then you write.”
~ Hampton Fancher
“That was the most disappointing thing to me in how this thing was played. Is that I’m on the phone with you now, after all that’s been said, and the fundamental distinction between what James is dealing with in these other cases is not actually brought to the fore. The fundamental difference is that James Franco didn’t seek to use his position to have sex with anyone. There’s not a case of that. He wasn’t using his position or status to try to solicit a sexual favor from anyone. If he had — if that were what the accusation involved — the show would not have gone on. We would have folded up shop and we would have not completed the show. Because then it would have been the same as Harvey Weinstein, or Les Moonves, or any of these cases that are fundamental to this new paradigm. Did you not notice that? Why did you not notice that? Is that not something notable to say, journalistically? Because nobody could find the voice to say it. I’m not just being rhetorical. Why is it that you and the other critics, none of you could find the voice to say, “You know, it’s not this, it’s that”? Because — let me go on and speak further to this. If you go back to the L.A. Times piece, that’s what it lacked. That’s what they were not able to deliver. The one example in the five that involved an issue of a sexual act was between James and a woman he was dating, who he was not working with. There was no professional dynamic in any capacity.
~ David Simon
The date is dubious. WB has balls of steel, but that won’t help this film.
That’s good, survey yourself.
Chart weekend on the x-axis and past movies on the y-axis, throw fundamentals at it about upcoming titles and ask yourself for a prediction.
What are you blathering about, T Holly?
Me, blather?
Correction, you’ll also need a z-axis for B.O. I appreciate all the prediction work based on intrinsics, because surveys don’t work. So please, everybody, survey yourself and come up with a prediction. I have nun.
Well, then let the nun go, silly.
Can’t, I’m busy tenderizing my feet.
“(unless you count Deep Impact)”
why wouldn’t we?
This May may be more furtile than a Roman after a fertility ritual. Much like with Iron-Man you need to see the kids and the toys. These toys are actually moving. If the kids want the toys. They may drive their parents to see this in the theatre. It is a family film after all. So fuck the geeks if they cannot enjoy some family-friendly entertainment. Like those motherfuckers run the world.
“Can’t, I’m busy tenderizing my feet.”
Did Marcel Duchamp rise from the grave and write an Abbott & Costello script?
I saw a Speed Racer television ad yesterday with a PG attached to it.
^ So I wasn’t imagining it.
I like the idea of LOVE GURU and GET SMART on the same weekend. I can go away for the weekend and not feel like I’ve missed anything.
The best decision that WB did was release it in May. That decision will probably add 40 milion to the bottom line.
I think that it would be easier for the WB to make it an event movie in May….But how much audience is there for a film like this. It looks too “kiddie” for the hard-core Matrix fan base. Speed Racer isn’t a real known quality for the under ten set, though my newphew was quite excited for a CARS 2. It looks alittle too CG for the adult fans that grew up with it.
Hey it will open….But then what….I mean I really wonder what the cost was for this pic. It has been in development forever, plus looks like it would cost what 100-150 million, plus marketing and all those devlopment costs, plus you know joel silver will get his cut.
I would be alot happier working on the paramount lot in May than the WB lot…..Similar costs, but higher return with Iron Man
There is no rating on the website, though there is a link to the CARA site… which also has no rating.
However, at the bottom of the synopsis on the site, it does say that the film is rated PG “for sequences of action, some violence and language.”
It probably cost WB millions in overtime and rush jobs to get the film finished in time for a May release, too.
Paramount is just distributing Iron Man for Marvel. Marvel financed it themselves.
The Second Weekend of the Summer looks crappy on paper.
Banner seen lately in megaplexes: “Cameron vs. Ashton, Vegas, May 9”. Mother’s Day weekend + Chick Flick = potential #1?
Chucky gets first bragging rights when What Happens in Vegas outgrosses Speed Racer on May 9-11.
I look forward to his feverish detailing of which movie is at which suburban Jersey multiplex.