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Watchmen

Watchmen
2009
 162 minutes (2 hrs 42 mins)

Director and Cast Quickview

Directed by

Starring

Malin Akerman · Billy Crudup · Matthew Goode · Jackie Earle Haley · Jeffrey Dean Morgan · Patrick Wilson

Full cast & crew

Release dates

US release date US release: 6th March 2009

Box Office Quickview

UK box office

  • Debut box office: 6th Mar '09
  • Debut position: 1
  • Highest position: 1
  • Debut gross: £3.2 Million
  • Total chart weeks: 5

US box office

  • Box Office debut: 6th Mar '09
  • Debut position: 1
  • Highest position: 1
  • Debut gross: $55.2 Million
  • Total chart weeks: 6

Chart position history

UK box office

6 Mar, 2009
1
13 Mar, 2009
2
20 Mar, 2009
5
27 Mar, 2009
9
3 Apr, 2009
10

US box office

6 Mar, 2009
1
13 Mar, 2009
2
20 Mar, 2009
5
27 Mar, 2009
8

Global box office

Certificates

US
R

Total grosses

UK total gross
United Kingdom Flag  £8.6 Million
US total gross
United States Flag  $107.5 Million
Global total gross
Global Flag  $0

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News from around the web

All change again this week as the Aaron Paul racing film Need for Speed takes over at the top of the UK box office.

An adaptation of a popular video game, Need for Speed enters the chart at the top with a £2 million Friday - Sunday gross.

In an unusual move the Wes Anderson directed The Grand Budapest Hotel moves up one place to 2 this week taking £1.3 million over the weekend.

Last weeks top film, 300 Rise of an Empire, falls to three this week.

This weeks new films: -

  • Need For Speed
  • Under the Skin
  • Werther Met Opera 2014
This time last year Oz The Great and Powerful stayed at the top of the box office while the highest new film was Welcome to the Punch.

Five years ago Wilson and Aniston starred in Marley and Me and was the highest new film entering at the top of the box office knocking Watchmen into second place.

Ten years ago Julia Roberts starred in Mona Lisa Smile entering the box office at the top knocking Along Came Polly right down to third place.

Fifteen years ago Robin Williams was starring in Patch Adams which took the top spot knocking A Bugs Life down to two.

All change this week as The Logo Movie starts it's decent down the box office chart and is taken over by the slightly more adult 300 Rise of an Empire.

The sequel to 2007's 300 takes £2.7 million during it's debut weekend of release, taking over from The Lego movie which sinks just one place to number 2 this week.

Also worth a mention is The Grand Budapest Hotel which debut's at 3 this week.

This time last year Oz The Great and Powerful was the highest new film which debuted at the top knocking Wreck-It Ralph down to 3.

Five years ago Watchmen was the top film in the country which debuted at the top, in the process it knocked Slumdog Millionaire into 2nd place.

Ten years ago Along Came Polly was still the top film with the highest new film coming from 21 Grams at 2. Fifteen years ago A Bugs Life was still at the top holding off everything else. There was no new films to speak of with the highest coming outside the top 10, Beloved entered at 12.