Watchmen finally arrives
After a court case threatened to delay its release, and after a build up that feels like it’s gone on forever (anyone else remember the trailer playing with the IMAX screenings of The Dark Knight last summer?), Watchmen finally hits cinemas across the world today.
As the first huge blockbuster movie of the year, Warner Bros has plenty riding on it, and it’ll be opening in a massive – at least for this time of the year – 3,611 screens today in the US alone (and a record for an R-rated release). So what will its numbers be? We’re going for a $70m opening weekend in the US, although we expect that number to tail off significantly the weekend after. The film will, we suspect, have a bit of a job on its hands to break the $200m mark in the US, and it’ll entirely depend on how well Warner Bros has managed to get the film across to a mainstream audience. That R rating is likely to hurt the long term numbers a little too.
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