Watchmen’s “Decent” Midnight Box Office
07th March 2009
Los Angeles (E! Online) – Watchmen grossed an estimated $4.6 million in Friday midnight screenings, Exhibitor Relations reported today.
“It’s not high. It’s a decent gross for the [two-and-a-half-hour-plus] running time,” says Jeff Bock, a box-office analyst for the company. The numbers, he adds, “don’t tell us it’s going to be a huge blockbuster.”
Bock says the take signals somewhere around a $46 million to $50 million three-day gross, a debut that would put it in the neighborhood of Batman Begins, Superman Returns and Wanted, to name three comic-book releases, but leave it out of the reach of director Zack Snyder’s 300, which bowed with $70.8 million in 2007.
Among other recent midnight-launched movies, Watchmen came up short of Twilight ($7 million), and, unsurprisingly, a very long ways away from The Dark Knight (record $18.5 million.)
Movie of the year?
18th November 2008
Many people say Watchmen is one of the best books of all time. Will the movie be just as good? By the looks of the trailer I can’t wait to see it.