...last weekend’s winner Watchmen staggered to a second Friday of only $5.2M or so, and I am projecting only $15.75M for the 3-day. That marks a 71% drop. Anything over $20M would have been acceptable, but the bottom has fallen out of this movie, and it will now struggle to reach $100M domestic. When the foreign and DVD are added, it may make a small profit, but it will likely be negligible. The superstitious might suggest that Watchmen writer Alan Moore’s alleged curse may be to blame, but the reality is that word-of-mouth has been more negative than for any movie in recent memory.
I have mixed feelings. I enjoyed the movie and would see it again. However, as mentioned above, I was afraid that, if it was a big hit, it would just inspire shitty sequels and reinforce WB's earlier thought that now every comic book movie had to be dark and gritty.
