Apologies in advance for the length of this post. It’s the equivalent of the ’90s Saturday lunchtime ITV multimedia extravaganza Movies, Games and Videos – by which I mean it’s incoherent – but with less Steve Priestley. Sadly.

Senna

Senna is already the third highest grossing documentary ever at the UK box office (excluding concerts) – and deservingly so.

Top of that list is Farenheit 9/11, with what looks like an unassailable £6.5 million. Second place looks distinctly more achievable – March of the Penguins with £3.1 million (I think, though that disagrees with the figure quoted elsewhere).

As of last weekend, Senna was just shy of the £3 million barrier, which it should pass this week. Give it a couple of weeks, and I reckon it’ll take the number two spot. It should do, if you look at the trend.

TT3D: Closer To The Edge

There’s good reason to think that Senna will hang around in cinemas for a while yet, in the form of the also excellent TT3D: Closer To The Edge. After 12 weeks on release, it’s still taking money, albeit at only six sites last week. It’s grossed over £1.2 million to date.

Which means the DVD and Blu-ray release, which I am keenly awaiting, is still yet to be dated. The good news is that plans seems to be well advanced though, as there’s an extensive listing on Duke Video now.

More Guy Martin

But if you can’t wait for more Guy Martin, then this entry to the Relentless Energy Drink Short Stories film competition, entitled Isle of Man Tourist Trophy, is worth a watch. It’s a bit like TT3D, but about 100 minutes shorter.

The other Short Stories entries aren’t terribly easy to find on the Relentless webste, but a search on YouTube does the trick. They’re an interesting bunch.

In other Guy Martin news, he revealed in passing this week that he’s got another TV project in the works. And in ACTUAL RACING NEWS, also this week he won the Senior Race at the Southern 100. Which is good.

Games

Lastly, a game! Or perhaps more accurately, a promotional tool for Red Bull Speed Jam, which takes place in Cardiff on 3rd September. Amongst the attractions will be Red Bull Racing, aerial acrobatics from the Red Bull Matadors, and the finals of the Red Bull Kart Fight karting competition.

Red Bull Kart Fight is also the name of the game, which comes in iPhone and browser variants. Buy Red Bull – if you can stand the stuff – enter the code thereon, and you can win tickets to Speed Jam through playing the game.

The iPhone version is little more than glorified Scalextric: accelerate and brake are the only meaningful inputs; tilting only adds drift and modifies the racing line which you automatically follow. Not good. Still, better than the TT3D promotional iPhone game.

Thankfully there are proper controls in the browser version, which isn’t a bad litle “nod to Micro Machines” – to quote the company behind the game.