By Ryan Parsons | Image property of Fox Searchlight
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Though we still have to wait till mid-February for the release of the film Night Watch (Nochnoy Dozor), the lucky people over in Russia (where the film is from) are already breaking their own box office numbers with the sequel-- Day Watch.
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According to Variety, Day Watch already broke local records only a week after its January 1st release. However, this news doesn't come as much of a surprise considering it is the sequel to one of Russia's biggest films and has more marketing and prints than any film before it. There supposedly isn't a street in Moscow that doesn't have some sort of advertisement or banner for the film.
Day Watch took in $20 million between its release and January 9th in Russia and Kazakhstan. The nine-day period also helped the film's ticket sales, as the period is also a local public holiday in Russia.
To have even a larger appeal for Day Watch over Night Watch the producers decided to add a bit more romance and comedy this time around. The entire trilogy is being adapted from the fantasy novels by Russian writer Sergei Lukyanenko.
Day Watch opens with historical scenes from Central Asia that introduce a key plot element -- the "chalk of fate," a magic device that can reverse the path of events and allows hero Anton Gorodetsky to avert an apocalypse that lays waste to a vividly depicted contemporary Moscow.
Day Watch is the second installment of a trilogy based on the best-selling sci-fi novels of Sergei Lukyanenko entitled 'Night Watch, Day Watch, and Dusk Watch'.
Day Watch will have a release in the states some time in 2006. For now we are just going to have to wait till February for the first film of this awesome looking trilogy.
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