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Watchmen currently sits eighth in all time March openings, as well as the seventh largest opening for an R-rated film in North American history.

It earned $165.2 million on its opening weekend, which ranks as the 14th largest opening.

Dhoom 2 grossed US$979,000 in North America in 63 theatres over its three-day opening weekend ($1.3 million over four days), becoming the third largest opening weekend for a Bollywood film in North America.

It also ranks as the ninth largest opening weekend of all time.

DODGERS 10, EXPOS 4 With one big swing, Eric Karros silenced Montreal's largest opening crowd since 1993.

"Pearl Harbor," the $135 million romantic adventure about America's explosive entry into World War II that took a pounding from most critics, nevertheless had the second largest opening weekend in movie history and the largest ever for Walt Disney Studios.

By the end of its first weekend, it had earned $219.8 million, which stands as the fifth-largest opening weekend of all time overseas and the largest for Paramount.

In North America, the film broke many records including the largest opening- and single-day gross ($55.8 million), the biggest opening weekend gross ($135.6 million), the least time to reach $100, $200 and $300 million and the highest ten-day gross.

NBC's coverage of the opening-night Olympics ceremony on Friday attracted an average of 34.2 million viewers, making it the largest opening-night audience ever for an Olympics held in a country outside the United States, according to Nielsen Media Research.

A crisp, cloudless opening day at Santa Anita greeted the racetrack's largest opening-day crowd since 1994 and began with 32-year-old jockey Santiago Gonzalez, a native of Venezuela, riding winners in the first three races.

Avatar's worldwide gross was US$241.6 million after five days, the ninth largest opening-weekend gross of all time, and the largest for a non-franchise, non-sequel and original film.