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Based on opening weekend performance, anime-inspired race movie will have difficulty recouping its $120-million budget

The latest movie adaptation of C.S. Lewis' writings promises to be imaginative. Plus: the season finale of NBC's 'ER,' a new Joe Cocker album and an 'Indiana Jones' DVD collection.

'Speed Racer' failed to rev up moviegoers this weekend as the anime-inspired race movie spun out with a disappointing $20.2 million in ticket sales.

First Lindsay Lohan was supposed to play Nancy Pitman in Matthew Bright’s “The Manson Girls,” but she was dropped. Nikki Finke reports that producers of the movie couldn’t find any name actresses to star with her. Nobody wants to star with Lohan — what’s up with that?!Now Lindsay has been canned again! Lohan [...]

After a huge opening for Iron Man last weekend, the market fell to earth with a bump this time around thanks to a very disappointing debut for Speed Racer.The much-hyped cartoon action movie from the Wachowski brothers only managed to pull in $20.2 million at the box office, according to Warner Bros.' Sunday estimate, and there's a good chance that What Happens in Vegas, with an estimated $20 million so far, will end up in second place for the weekend.Iron Man, meanwhile, put in a very respectable second weekend with an estimated $50.5 million.

This week's round of new movie release information contains release dates for The Spirit, Iron Man 2, The Avengers and more!

Film News: Governor seeks to retain California productions -- Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger said Friday that California must increase tax incentives to movie and television studios as a way to keep them from moving their productions out of state.

Film Reviews: The child is father to the filmmaker in 'Childhoods,' an entertaining re-creation of incidents in the lives of several revered auteurs by a series of lesser-known French helmers. Inevitably, the six segs vary in quality, but the combination of homage, drama and parlor game will appeal to movie buffs. Other auds may feel left out of the loop as, without prior knowledge of the subject's work, some episodes could seem baffling. Pic, which has already played some Gallic festivals, goes out in France in mid-May. Offshore, more fest slots are assured.