In its opening weekend, the superhero film Watchmen took in $55 Million!! The comic book adaptation about a team of retired, flawed superheroes has set the record for 2009 thus far.   According to the BBC:

Fans of the comic book series by writer Alan Moore and illustrator Dave Gibbons waited two decades for the film to come to the big-screen.

The anticipation was complicated last year when Warner Bros and 20th Century Fox fought over who owned rights to the movie.

The studios eventually settled in January, keeping the 6 March opening intact.

Did you see Watchmen this weekend?  Will you be going?