Plummeting more than 67 percent from that start, Watchmen added $18.1 million to its two-week take. Sitting at $86 million, Warner Bros. Pictures is certainly hoping business will pick up to make back the flick’s $150 million budget.

Based on one of the most popular graphic novels of all time, Watchmen stars an ensemble cast that includes Jackie Earle Haley, Jeffrey Dean Morgan, Malin Akerman, Billy Crudup, Matthew Goode and Patrick Wilson as a batch of masked vigilantes. In the film, a plot to kill and discredit all superheroes is uncovered as a group of retired vigilantes attempt to track down the mastermind behind the plan and decide whether the world’s dismal future is worth saving.

1. Race to Witch Mountain, $25 million

2. Watchmen, $18.1 million

3. The Last House on the Left, $14.7 million

4. Taken, $6.7 million

5. Madea Goes to Jail, $5.1 million

6. Slumdog Millionaire, $5 million

7. Paul Blart: Mall Cop, $3.1 million

8. He’s Just Not That Into You, $2.9 million

9. Coraline, $2.7 million

10. Miss March, $2.4 million

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