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Opinion: Interpreting Speed Racer's Box Office Failure 
First Showing | by Alex Billington | Tue, May 20
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Unfortunately, I think the best way to say it is that Speed Racer isn't meant for everyone. But they wanted to try and make it for everyone. And that's where they ran into problems. When there is so much to juggle and so many audiences to please, it sometimes becomes just too challenging of a task....
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According to screenwriter John August via his blog, “Shazam!” the movie is dead. Buried. In the ground. At least, for now. August blames the current death of “Shazam!” on a number of factors, most notably the costly failure of the Wachowski Brothers’ “Speed Racer” (the carcass of which can st...
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