I will refrain myself from using the word ‘crash’ in this post, but I think you know where I’m going with this. ‘Speed Racer’ didn’t manage to pick up speed. ‘Speed Racer’ wasn’t fast enough. ‘Speed Racer’ passed by ‘Iron Man.’

In short, ‘Speed Racer’ just didn’t meet Warner Bros’ expectations, only making $20.2 million this weekend. That’s only a couple of visitors more than what ‘What Happens in Vegas’ did, with $20 million. But the word is, Warner Bros. even upped this low number to get in second instead of third. That would of course have made the failure even more embarrassing, because ‘What Happens in Vegas’ only cost $35 million and ‘Speed Racer’ budget estimates range from $100 to $185 million.

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Iron Man: $123,134,395 ($186 million budget)
Made of Honor: $18,675,171 ($40 million budget)
Baby Mama: $12,613,110 ($30 million budget, second week)

A little later because of our server outage, but here’s the weekly roundup for the first week of ‘Iron Man.’

As expected ‘Harold & Kumar 2′ didn’t make the top 3 in its second week, but ‘Baby Mama’ hold up nicely with another $12.6 million in its second week. That’s 42% of its budget and makes to total go well above the $30 million budget.

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Taking a little preview of what’s to come at our weekly box office roundup, here’s what happened this weekend. If you’ve been reading the site, you definitely know about ‘Iron Man’ crushing its competition. So let’s not talk about that. But if we take a look at number two, we see ‘Made of Honor’ still made a decent $15.5 million. I say decent, because with a $40 million budget, Columbia Pictures can’t be too happy about it. A metacritic.com score of 3.7 didn’t help and probably got some girls to join their boyfriend to see ‘Iron Man’ instead.

Others may have chosen to see ‘Baby Mama,’ which was received a little better by the critics last week. It made another $10 million this weekend, making it profitable if you don’t consider marketing.

We already saw how ‘Forgetting Sarah Marshall’ was going to have better legs in our weekly box office roundup. And it managed to top ‘Harold & Kumar 2′ in its third weekend, with a big $6 million. ‘Harold & Kumar 2′ is probably having its last good week, also doing $6 million. Not that New Line Cinema should be sad about it. The movie already did twice their budget of $12 million and is tracking to do double of what its prequel did.