According to "The Hollywood Reporter," "Watchmen" earned a clean sweep on the DVD charts, taking the DVD sales, rentals, and Blu-ray sales crown in its first week in release.
The high-powered disc did have some competition in the fellow new release "Coraline," which finished in second place in all three charts in its week. Holdover "Knowing" held strong in third place in all three charts for the week.
"Watchmen" sold an impressive 36% of its total take in the BD format. While "Coraline" took in 18% of its haul in the high-def format, and "Knowing" in its third week in release still took in 17% of its third week gross in the 1080p format.
I think most of us expected "Watchmen" to make its mark on home viewing sales. At theaters it suffered for its R rating, long run time, and short attention span of Joe public! I don't believe good box office means good movie. But in this instance I really hope "Watchmen" makes a heap load of money. Not so much as we will see a sequel(at least i hope not!) but so studios will think twice before dismissing a project with some bite in the future.
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