Another Cannes candidate has released some production pictures. ‘Che,’ the $40 million project by Steven Soderbergh, will have its first screening May 21. No further release data has been set, but if it does well and gets picked up, we might see it theaters somewhere this Fall.

When we said the weekend box office numbers for ‘Speed Racer’ might have been a little too high, we didn’t expect even lower numbers to be released. But the Warner Bros. employees responsible for the hippie colored movie must be crying in the corner at this point. The ‘official’ weekend counter came no further than $18.6 million. A difference of $1.6 million with earlier estimates.

It makes for a total of just $31.1 million worldwide. With another family title next weekend (’Prince Caspian’), will it even be possible to gross over $100 million worldwide? Or is ‘Speed Racer’ getting ready to take a spot in the book of biggest box office failures ever, considering the total costs (budget, marketing, promotional deals) may even exceed $350 million.

New ‘Quantum of Solace’ pictures hit the net last weekend, with Mathieu Amalric as its major focus. I think the PR for this James Bond movie is slowly going to pick up steam during the summer. With its $230 million budget, it sure needs it.