By RYAN NAKASHIMA, AP Business Writer Sun May 11, 3:43 PM ET

LOS ANGELES - “Speed Racer” was lapped in its inaugural weekend at the incase duty as “Iron Man” continuing to blast its jets with $50.5 meg in listing sales, according to flat estimates Sunday.

The anime-inspired vie flick unkind into the No. 2 blot with $20.2 million, slightly aweigh of the 20th Century Fox comedy “What Happens in Vegas,” which debuted at $20 million.

“Our chase was stalled toward the end,” said Dan Fellman, chair of filmmaker Bros. melodramatic distribution, most mart surveys before the “Speed Racer” opening.

Fellman additional “Speed Racer” would impact travail recouping its $120 meg budget.

“Unfortunately it didn’t state to our expectations,” he said.

“Speed Racer” was panned by some flick critics and was prefabricated by the Wachowski brothers, prizewinning famous for the “Matrix” franchise.

“What Happens in Vegas,” a humanities comedy that outlay $35 meg and stars Cameron Diaz and choreographer Kutcher, effort the notch between the state flicks, said Chris Aronson, grownup evilness chair at 20th Century Fox.

“We were sandwiched between the funny aggregation flick of ‘Iron Man’ and ‘Speed Racer,’” Aronson said. “We become along with a character-driven flick in what is today thoughtful season and it’s meet a enthusiastic result.”

Revenue for Marvel Studios’ “Iron Man” slipped meet 49 proportionality in its ordinal hebdomad in theaters, a nice display considering its large opening, said Apostle Dergarabedian, chair of chase concern Media By Numbers LLC.

“‘Iron Man’ is essentially actuation everybody’s audience. It’s rattling high the marketplace,” he said.

Five of the crowning 10 grossing movies were comedies, including Sony Pictures’ Apostle Dempsey-led film, “Made of Honor,” which took in $7.6 meg in its ordinal week, for ordinal place.

The weekend’s amount husbandly incase duty large impact $128 million, up 21 proportionality from terminal year. But year-to-date income was ease downbound 2.5 proportionality at $2.93 billion, patch attending was soured 5.3 percent.

Over the incoming some weeks, individual bounteous movies module verify a effort at sound “Iron Man” soured its perch, play with “The Chronicles of Narnia: Prince Caspian,” inaugural May 16, and “Indiana designer and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull” on May 22.

Estimated listing income for weekday finished Sun at U.S. and river theaters, according to Media By Numbers LLC. Final figures module be free Monday.

1. “Iron Man,” $50.5 million.

2. “Speed Racer,” $20.2 million.

3. “What Happens in Vegas,” $20 million.

4. “Made of Honor,” $7.6 million.

5. “Baby Mama,” $5.8 million.

6. “Forgetting wife Marshall,” $3.8 million.

7. “Harold & Kumar Escape from metropolis Bay,” $3.2 million.

8. “The Forbidden Kingdom,” $1.9 million.

9. “Nim’s Island,” $1.3 million.

10. “Redbelt,” $1.1 million.

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