Fernando Meirelles, director of ‘City of God,’ is showing off new pictures for his screening of ‘Blindness’ at Cannes. The $25 million project will be released this September and features Julianne Moore and Mark Ruffalo in a drama about (you guessed it) massive blindness.

I don’t want to keep kicking Warner Bros. when they’re down, but this is quite remarkable. It isn’t a secret ‘Speed Racer’ is turning out to be the biggest flop of the year. Warner tried to cover it up in the weekend by releasing numbers that were just a tiny bit higher than ‘What Happens in Vegas.’ And while it got them the second place in most news papers, the shame of the corrected numbers after the weekend must have stung pretty bad.

Now the news comes out about Germany totally lacking interest in the movie. You would ask yourself why they would care about Germany. Well, first of all, it’s one of the biggest markets in Europe. And secondly, the press was all over the movie in Germany, because it was shot in Studio Babelsberg near Berlin and partially financed by German film grants.

‘Speed Racer’ only managed to make a meager $154,745, with under 15,000 viewers, while ‘What Happens in Vegas’ topped the chart with $1,903,364. ‘Iron Man’ took the third place with $1,114,164. ‘Speed Racer’ only made it to the 9th place, merely beating ‘Street Kings’ in its fourth week. ‘What Happens in Vegas’ had a good weekend overseas, topping in half of the European territories other than Germany.

Maybe you didn’t notice, but he just looked at you. Takashi Miike is not described as the fastest guy in Asian cinema for nothing. IMDB shows he has made a whopping 76 movies in just 18 years.

Miike will direct the sequel to his ‘Crows Zero,’ which has been out of the theaters for just a couple of months and didn’t even hit western theaters yet. The (not surprisingly) yakuza movie made over $24 million at the Japanese box office last year and the sequel has been green lit to begin production in July. Shun Oguri has also been signed again to star in ‘Crows Zero 2.’

Takashi Miike got his cult following outside Japan because of his gory ‘Ichi the Killer’ and ‘Audition.’ Some of his movies did better overseas than in Japan alone.

‘Crows Zero’ got picked up for a US release by Media Blasters last year, but no date has been set.