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“Watchmen,” the subversive super-hero epic from Warner Brothers and its partners, led the movie box-office through another strong weekend, but stopped short of peaks hit by some of its predecessors.
The much-discussed film, directed by Zack Snyder and based on a
From “Absolute Watchmen” graphic novel
graphic novel by Alan Moore and Dave Gibbons, had an estimated $55.7 million in ticket sales, easily outpacing the weekend’s second place film, “Tyler Perry’s Madea Goes to Jail,” from Lionsgate, which took in about $8.8 million at the domestic box-office for a total of $76.5 million to date.