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Friday Box Office – HARRY POTTER AND THE DEATHLY HALLOWS PART 2 Scores Single Best Opening Day Ever with $92.1 Million

by Nicole Pedersen    Posted: July 16th, 2011 at 10:19 am

No one doubted that the final Harry Potter film would be huge.  Just how huge, however, is taking even box office watchers by surprise.  Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part 2 already crushed the domestic midnight record with its $43.5 million launch.  Today, estimates for its first full day give the film the single day record as well.  With $92.1 million from its 4,375 locations, Deathly Hallows 2 easily topped the $72.7 million earned by Twilight Saga: New Moon in 2009.  It is now all but certain that Harry Potter will also snatch the all-time weekend record away from The Dark Knight as most projections put the film at $180 million for its first three days. Internationally, Deathly Hallows 2 took in $82.5 million on Wednesday and Thursday for a worldwide total of $173 million and counting.  Other records now lining up to be broken include the fastest film to break $100 and $200 million domestically, biggest worldwide opening of all-time and so many, many more.  Meanwhile, the one film that dared to compete with Potter this weekend was Disney’s Winnie the Pooh. From 2,405 locations Pooh took in an estimated $2.9 million. Full details and analysis tomorrow.

	Title	Friday	Total
1	Harry Potter 7b	$92,100,000	$92
2	Transformers 3	$6,238,000	$287.8
3	Horrible Bosses	$5,475,000	$47.8
4	Zookeeper	$3,875,000	$33.9
5	Winnie the Pooh	$2,900,000	$2.9

 

Box Office – HARRY POTTER and the DEATHLY HALLOWS Part 2 Shatters Midnight Record with $43.5 Million!

by Nicole Pedersen    Posted: July 15th, 2011 at 9:27 am

Ten years, eight films and over six billion dollars – Warner Brothers’ Harry Potter film franchise is coming to a close this weekend and by all accounts it is going out with a bang.  Leading up to its Friday debut, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2 had already smashed the record for US pre-sales with $50 million worth of advanced tickets sold.  Today Warner Brothers reports that the film took in $43.5 million from midnight screenings alone: easily topping the previous record of $30 million set by Twilight Saga: Eclipse last summer.  A second Twilight Saga record now set to fall is the one-day US record of $72 million set by New Moon.  With many of Potter’s 4,375 theatres screening this final installment back-to-back throughout Friday, a first day of $80 million is anticipated. Here in the US the film could go as high $180 million for its first weekend – though anything over $158 million would smash the all-time 3-day weekend benchmark set by The Dark Knight in 2008.  Internationally Deathly Hallows 2 has taken in $58 million from 24 territories for a global cume of over $105 million.  We’ll update you throughout the weekend as the most successful franchise in history wraps up its remarkable run.

Weekend Box Office – HARRY POTTER AND THE DEATHLY HALLOWS – PART 1 Scores a Franchise-Best Opening with $125.1 Million

by Nicole Pedersen    Posted: November 21st, 2010 at 8:52 am

Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows-Part 1 is the Hagrid-sized hit everyone expected it to be; although its three day estimate – at this point – won’t put it into the top five All-Time releases as was previously projected. They really missed the mark and came in sixth instead. Warner Brothers will have to be content in the knowledge that they have topped their previous Harry Potter record and bide their time until Part 2 comes out in July.

	Title	Weekend	Total
1	Harry Potter 7A	$125,100,000	$125.1
2	Megamind	$16,175,000	$109.4
3	Unstoppable	$13,100,000	$41.9
4	Due Date	$9,150,000	$72.6
5	The Next Three Days	$6,750,000	$6.7
6	Morning Glory	$5,430,000	$19.8
7	Skyline	$3,430,000	$17.6
8	Red	$2,467,000	$83.5
9	For Colored Girls	$2,400,000	$34.5
10	Fair Game	$1,470,000	$3.7

Weekend Box Office – NEW MOON Dominates a Record Breaking Thanksgiving Holiday

by Nicole Pedersen    Posted: November 29th, 2009 at 10:57 am

As if the folks at Summit Entertainment didn’t have enough to be thankful for after the record-breaking debut of The Twilight Saga: New Moon last weekend, the vampy drama also dominated the holiday frame. New Moon passed the $200 million mark on Friday and ended its second weekend in theatres with over $230 million domestically. The only day out of the past five that New Moon didn’t own? Thanksgiving Thursday. That belonged to Warner Brothers’ surprise-hit The Blind Side which nearly tied for first place thanks to a nice jump in ticket sales over its first weekend. Between these two holdovers, new releases like WB’s Ninja Assassin and Disney’s Old Dogs had to fight over box office table scraps.

	Title	Weekend	Total
1	New Moon	$42,500,000	$230.7
2	The Blind Side	$40,100,000	$100.3
3	2012	$18,000,000	$138.7
4	Old Dogs	$16,800,000	$24.1
5	A Christmas Carol	$16,000,000	$105.3
6	Ninja Assassin	$13,100,000	$21
7	Planet 51	$10,200,000	$28.4
8	Precious	$7,090,000	$32.4
9	Fantastic Mr. Fox	$7,020,000	$10.1
10	The Men Who Stare at Goats	$1,533,000	$30.5

Friday Box Office – NEW MOON Busts All-Time Opening Day Record with $72.7 Million

by Nicole Pedersen    Posted: November 21st, 2009 at 8:56 am

It’s official! The all-time Opening Day record for any film premiering on any day has fallen. All hail the new king of the box office: The Twilight Saga: New Moon.  See what the concentrated power of ten million screaming tween girls can accomplish? Official estimates from Summit Entertainment put New Moon at $72.7 million for Friday, including the $26.3 million the sequel brought in from its midnight engagements. That is more than $5 million above the former all-time record of $67.2 million set by The Dark Knight back in 2008 and a 100% increase on the $36 million debut of Twilight one year ago. The question now is whether New Moon can keep up this pace long enough to break The Dark Knight‘s other record: $158.4 million in three days. Check back tomorrow to find out how it all plays out.

	Title	Friday	Total
1	New Moon	$72,700,000	$72.7
2	The Blind Side	$10,920,000	$10.9
3	2012	$8,100,000	$89.8
4	Precious	$3,600,000	$13.9
5	Planet 51	$3,150,000	$3.1

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