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Topstart for the cult comic: Zack Snyder "Watchmen" struggling in the U.S. despite the R rating on square one. In Germany, the dark adaptation, however, Jennifer Aniston and her dog beaten type.

 

Hamburg / Los Angeles - "Who watches the Watchmen?" - Who actually looks at the people who monitor us? This question has in the eighties, not only Alan Moore and Dave Gibbons employed, the two creators of the comic "Watchmen", which in her had become a cult classic work is a dark, rotten from the cold war world marked. No, they are also employed as the producers of the movie version of a superhero-force unverfilmbar substance - on an economic level, of course.

After starting the weekend, they can at least in the U.S., the heartland, a little more relaxed in the cinema seat recline. According to "Focus on Film" landed
"Watchmen" with 55.6 million U.S. dollars on the top box at Box Office.
Zack Snyder comic book adaptation created so that the previously best start the weekend of the year.

Because of the enormous publicity it was a good result is expected, but given a period of nearly three hours and an R-rating is the success of the film started in 3611 but amazing movie - even though he was not as strong as previous Snyders
"300", which exactly two years ago with 70.9 million U.S. dollars was received.

Second place went to the stable "Madea Goes to Jail," the fourth part of a series of comedy and Tyler Perry. The film, in which Perry dressed as a woman plays a Southern Lady, has his total earnings after 8.8 million U.S. dollars to 76.5 million U.S. dollars to increase, making it the most successful film of his career.

Good run continues, the thriller "Taken/96 Hours", on the sixth day of the weekend, only 24 per cent biodegradable and after 7.4 million U.S. dollars in total 118 million U.S. dollars already has implemented.

The 100-million-dollar mark has also
Oscar-winner "Slumdog Millionaire" already skipped. Danny Boyle film highly decorated continued his good run at the weekend with another 6.9 million U.S. dollars and continued shakedown comes to a total profit of 125.4 million U.S. dollars.

The top five Decides "The department store Cop" King of Queens star Kevin James, the recordings 4.2 million U.S. dollars and 133.6 million U.S. dollars with a total box office to date most successful film of the year.

Rapidly went downhill, however, with the boy band movie "Jonas Brothers - The ultimate 3D concert experience" from the house of Disney, which is a minus of 78 percent and thus had to cope from second place on nine fell.

Triumph of a pretty blonde family

In Germany, it is heavier than comic films in the U.S., and so came
"Watchmen", launched in 371 cinemas, with 185,000 viewers (no preview numbers) only in third place. We had hoped for an outcome, as it
"Batman Begins" in 2005 was reported. The first Batman movie by director Christopher Nolan (about 900,000 viewers in total) came on his first weekend at around 218,000 visitors, however, was also almost twice as many copies gelaufen (674).

At number one landed on the other hand, another reboot of the reason her mood probably the exact opposite of the dark "Watchmen" is:
"Marley & me". The romantic comedy is a blonde family (Owen Wilson, Jennifer Aniston and her Labrador) was already in the United States became a surprise success, and came here in 548 cinemas around 370,000 visitors.

Behind it followed the front-runner last week, "
The readers', which again of about 310,000 viewers and was now determined on the one-million-visitor mark zusteuert. With a total of more than 700,000 visitors is the best film adaptation of Oscar-winner Kate Winslet is already the second film of the Senator Film lending since its restructuring two years ago.

At number four landed the Disney children's film "Hexe Lilli", for the 165,000 tickets have been resolved, and thus also to the one-million-visitor mark zusteuert. The top five decides another newcomer, Clint Eastwood's
"Gran Torino" in 143 cinemas with a good cut to 100,000 visitors came and so into the race a little better off than
"Million Dollar Baby" four years ago.

"The journey to the center of the Earth" came in 223 cinemas with 65.000 spectators barely in the Top Ten, Willibald, and the wonders of this world "there would have been in 163 cinemas with 60,000 Kinogängern almost done.

Altogether, about 2.1 million tickets in Germany dissolved.