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.

As if our friend Steve Mason heard our call for some early ‘Indiana Jones & the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull’ tracking numbers, here are the first numbers 9 days before its box office release.

Un-Aided Awareness: 15%
Definite Interest: 63%
First Choice: 28%

Now let’s compare them to the ‘The Chronicles of Narnia: Prince Caspian’ tracking numbers from yesterday — keep in mind this movie is releasing this week and should relatively track higher.

Un-Aided Awareness: 11% (-4)
Definite Interest: 42% (-21)
First Choice: 14% (-14)

As you can see, tracking numbers for ‘Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull’ are high overall. It will likely be the biggest opening this year thus far. I’m not sure about it having a $160+ million weekend, but it’s certainly pushing the movie into the $150 million direction. A number that will presumably make Steven Spielberg a very happy man.

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.