"Watchmen" sits sixteenth in all-time March openings as of March 2019, as well as the nineteenth-largest opening for an R-rated film in North American history. It was the sixth-highest-grossing R-rated film of 2009, behind "The Hangover", "Inglourious Basterds", "District 9", "Paranormal Activity", and "It's Complicated". At the North American box office, "Watchmen" currently sits in the lower half of the thirty-four films based on a DC Comics comic book (narrowly ahead of 1997's "Batman & Robin"), and the 31st-highest-grossing film of 2009.