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.

‘Iron Man’ has such a dominating personality. He stayed on top in the US and he’s not letting go overseas either. The box office hit made another $39 million this weekend in 61 territories. ‘What Happens In Vegas’ made the second place with $23 million in 36 markets and ‘Speed Racer’ had an amazingly slow weekend with only $12.8 million in 30 territories. It only took the first place in South Korea with $2.4 million.

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Already getting sick of all the ‘Iron Man’ coverage? Well, wait a couple of days. We will be all over how bad ‘Speed Racer’ is doing. But for now, let’s take a closer look at how ‘Iron Man’ did globally.

As we already know it made $96.8 million overseas at 57 territories and 7,500 screens. But what was the number two territory after the US? That’s right, the ones with the English dialect, the UK with $10.3 million. Followed closely by our Mexican friends with $9.6 million. In third, quite surprising, came South Korea. It was the biggest launch in South Korea for 2008 and even double of what ‘Spider-man’ did at its launch.

Fourth to sixth were France with $7.1, Spain with $6.2 and Brazil with $6 million. All this is even more impressive when you consider ‘Iron Man’ was unknown to most people outside the US. They would have met the iron man the first time seeing the trailer.

‘Iron Man’ is expected to be able to surpass $300 million overseas. Which would make it one of the more successful comic book movies outside the US.