I don’t want to start bashing a movie before it’s out, but Michael Bay’s production company Platinum Dunes thought it would be a good idea to make a ‘Ouija’ movie. I think there’s a reason why the board wasn’t the subject of any movie during the over 100 years of its existence, but maybe there’s a story in there somewhere. The board of course had several cameos in recent years, so you might as well fill a whole movie with it.

David Berenbaum will write the screenplay. Going by his track record (’The Spiderwick Chronicles’ and ‘The Haunted Mansion’) this won’t be a critical hit, nor a box office one. Or am I being too critical here? No further words on possible production or release dates.

IMAX is getting ready to storm the theaters this year, but hasn’t done so yet. The company reported a $10.3 million loss for the first quarter this year. IMAX said the results “reflect the transitional nature of 2008 from a financial perspective as we continue implementing our key joint venture revenue sharing and digital initiatives.” Cryptically saying ‘we had a big loss now, to hopefully make some money in the future.’

They also blamed poor numbers for ‘The Spiderwick Chronicles’ and Rolling Stones’ ‘Shine A Light.’ The IMAX versions respectively did $6.8 and $3.9 million to date. It already had the box office results for the new ‘Speed Racer’ too, which made $1.9 million at 84 IMAX screens since last week.

Lastly, the big screen company announced a deal with DreamWorks to deploy ‘Madagascar: Escape 2 Africa’ worldwide in theaters November 7. It’s good to see IMAX making some promising deals with other studios. The company has a strong connection with Warner, but I think they’d rather have had ‘Iron Man’ than ‘Speed Racer’ last weekend.

In another slow weekend at the box office, ‘Forgetting Sarah Marshall’ took the top spot overseas, making an estimated $7 million at 1000 screens — yes, that’s $7000 per screen. Since the male nudity picture is launching in different territories during the whole summer, it managed to make this in only 9 countries. Leading the box office success was the UK, with $4.1 million during the weekend, followed by the second week in Australia with $1.6 million.

‘21′ is still doing well with $6.2 million and a $30.7 million total. ‘Horton Hears a Who!’ also made another $6.2 million, with a total of $127.2 million overseas. ‘Street Kings’ did $6.1 million, while ‘Fool’s Gold’ added $5.1 million to their total. And lastly, ‘The Spiderwick Chronicles’ is still pulling in some good numbers with $4.4 million for the weekend and a $81 million total overseas.