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SATURDAY PM/SUNDAY AM, 7TH UPDATE: My sources are estimating $38.2 million for Saturday and $61.1 million for Friday from 4,125 theaters for the biggest installment in the Harry Potter franchise. Friday’s North American grosses were a November record for the Harry Potter franchise, including the $24M from 3,700 post-midnight locations. Warner Bros is now saying Harry Potter And The Deathly Hallows, Part 1 translated to a weekend opening of $125.1M. That’s a lot of moolah as HP7A bested HP4‘s $102M weekend debut by +23% — and the 18-to-34 demos were +25% – and became #5 among all-time 3-day opening weekends. “The aging of the films have made them unique and the largest grossing franchise in motion picture history,” Warner Bros distribution czar Dan Fellman emails me. “No other film has successfully grown its audience in this manner.” Given that a net profit statement for 2007′s Harry Potter and The Order of the Phoenix shows that the film is still over $167M in the red despite grossing $938.2 million worldwide, I can’t wait to see how Warner Bros spins HP7A net.
Overseas, the latest Harry Potter installment earned a whopping $205M with 26.8 million admissions from 19,000 screens in 54 countries and 91 markets, including $4.2M from 101 screens for IMAX. Highlights included the UK’s £17.5m / $28.0M (3 million admissions on 1,852 screens) for the biggest 3-day opening ever while Saturday’s box office of £6.6M was the biggest single day ever in UK history.
1. Harry Potter And The Deathly Hallows, Part 1 (Warner Bros) NEW [4,125 Theaters]
Friday $61.1M, Saturday $38.2M, Weekend $125.1M
The strategy by Warner Bros’ Sue Kroll was to launch “The Motion Picture Event of a Generation” — a year-long campaign that began selling both Parts 1 & 2 combined last summer. The marketing czarina positioned it as a must-see cultural phenom, the culmination of the ultimate battle between good & evil all leading up to Harry’s final face off with Voldemort. The studio launched a teaser trailer and poster touting both installments with Twilight last June that played through the summer, plus showed a 4-minute piece at Comi-Con in July to appeal to hard-core fans (the first time Harry Potter has ever been shown there.) All subsequent materials focused entirely on Part 1 with the main trailer, print materials, and in theater campaign launching in September. Warner Bros also bought an extremely broad TV campaign claiming HP isn’t just for kids anymore on everything from kids programming to sports and high profile network & cable shows. In October, a massive outdoor campaign began. “The goal was ubiquity,” a WB exec tells me.
2. Megamind (DreamWorks Animation/Paramount) Week 3 [3,779 Theaters]
Friday $3.7M, Saturday $7.6M, Weekend $16.1M (-45%), Cume $109.4M
3. Unstoppable (Fox) Week 2 [3,209 Theaters]
Friday $4M, Saturday $5.8M, Weekend $13.1M (-42%), Cume $41.9M
This pic played well to those sparse audiences who showed up to see it. Fox Filmed Entertainment Group will be very happy when 2010 and its non-Avatar pics come to an end. Better luck next year.
4. Due Date (Warner Bros) Week 3 [3,229 Theaters]
Friday $2.9M, Saturday $3.9M, Weekend $9.1M, Cume $72.6M
5. The Next Three Days (Lionsgate) NEW [2,564 Theaters]
Friday $2.2M, Saturday $2.6M, Weekend $6.7M
Another box office disaster for Joe Drake and the Lionsgate motion picture group. Given that marketing costs these days start at $30M and go up and up and up, I don’t understand how Lionsgate can claim to me it “knew all along” that writer/director Paul Haggis’ The Next Three Days would make only $7M-$9M. Then why make this very ordinary thriller in the first place? “We knew that counter programming against Potter would be tricky, but the Thanksgiving holiday weekend and fact that adult films don’t always live or die by their opening weekends factored into our risk calculations,” an LG exec tells me. “We were very careful with our media buy, niche targeting our adult audience and not overspending.” Yet Russell Crowe refuses to be hired on the cheap. At least he went above and beyond his normal press outreach, doing the full press junket in support of the movie, and then 6 national talk shows.
6. Morning Glory (Paramount) Week 2 [2,544 Theaters]
Friday $1.6M, Saturday $2.3M, Weekend $5.2M, Cume $19.8M
7. Skyline (Rogue/Relativity/Universal) Week 2 [2,883 Theaters]
Friday $1M, Weekend $3M, Cume $17.2M
8. Red (Summit) Week 6 [2,034 Theaters]
Friday $715K, Saturday $1.1M, Weekend $2.5M, Cume $83.6M
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Friday $680K, Weekend $1.8M, Cume $34M
10. Fair Game (Summit) Week 3 [386 Theaters]
Friday $380K, Saturday $690M, Weekend $1.5M, Cume $3.7M
FRIDAY 10 AM, 3RD UPDATE: Post-midnight screenings of Harry Potter And The Deathly Hallows, Part 1 made $24 million from 3,700 North American locations today. That’s a record for the franchise which has taken in nearly $5.5 billion in worldwide revenue, the most successful movie franchise in box office history. The previous midnight Harry Potter record was the sixth installment with $22M. (For midnight screenings of HP7A in 238 IMAX theaters in North America, the $1.436 million tally beat IMAX’s previous midnight record grosses of $1.036 million from the Twilight Saga: Eclipse.) “This is off to a huge start with $11M already reported for Friday matinees,” a Warner Bros executive emails me. The studio believes that HP7A could open to a whopping $135M by Sundays’s end.
THURSDAY 7 PM, 2ND UPDATE: I’m told that as of 6 PM tonight advance sales were $35 million for Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, Part 1.
THURSDAY 4 PM UPDATE:With only a few hours to go before its 12:01 AM Friday premiere, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, Part 1 is past $30 million in advance sales and may be looking at $60 million for Friday’s opening day and a 3-day debut weekend total of $130+ million. Maybe even $150M. Yowza! The last 2 Harry Potter films both had weekend grosses of $77M each. “We will EASILY pass $100M for our opening FSS this time around,’ a Warner Bros executive tells me. Meanwhile, the picture has already leaped over previous record-holders to become giant online ticketseller Fandango’s top Harry Potter advance ticket-seller in Fandango’s 10-year history, and the overall 3rd best pre-seller in company history following only Summit’s Twilight Saga: New Moon and Twilight Saga: Eclipse. It has bested Star Wars: Episode III – Revenge of the Sith. This #7A latest in the HP franchise currently represents 97% of today’s ticket sales and more than 3,000 showtimes are already sold out in cities and towns across the country. I hear theater owners are scrambling to add new midnight and 3:15 AM showtimes to meet the fan demand.
EXCLUSIVE… Wednesday 12:30 PM: Warner Bros is warning me to “get ready for a record-breaking weekend” for its Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, Part 1 which opens at 12:01 AM Friday. But the pic is already breaking records and it hasn’t even opened for another 36 hours. It will play in a whopping 3,700 midnight locations, which is a record, with the screen count to adjust based on the demand so that figure could climb even higher. The general theater count for Friday’s release is already 4,125, a November record for the Harry Potter franchise, with over 9,000 screens. In addition to these unprecedented numbers, Warner Bros’ Dan Fellman has lined up 239 IMAX Theatres, another record (the last HP only had 166 IMAX screens). “Since almost all the IMAX have sold out the weekend already, they are adding a 3 AM show starting with the first midnight show,” my insider says. There also are an additional 65 “Special Presentation Circuit Screens”. Most importantly, the studio already has $25 Million in advance ticket sales, another record. “All good news for a huge HP weekend,” a Warner Bros exec gushed to me.
Fandango, the giant online ticket seller, just reported to me that it’s now sold out more than 2,200 showtimes of Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, Part 1 in advance of its opening tomorrow night at midnight. The film represents 96% of Fandango’s daily ticket sales. “A healthy percentage of Part 1 tickets were sold via Fandango’s mobile apps for iPhone, Android, BlackBerry, Windows Phone 7 and Palm Pre,” exec Harry Medved tells me.
Meanwhile, Harry Potter And The Deathly Hallows, Part 1 today catapulted to the No. 5 advance online ticket seller of all-time today at MovieTickets.com. The movie closely trails No. 4 Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince. “With less than 48 hours still available for advance ticket purchases prior to the film’s premiere, it could climb even higher,” MovieTickets.com says. As of 11 AM ET today, MovieTickets.com reports the following HP7 updates: that Harry Potter/Deathly Hallows, Pt 1 represents 94% of all of today’s ticket sales at MovieTickets.com, with over 1,900 sellouts already (though there are plenty of tickets still available for purchase) and more than 160 sellouts in New York and Los Angeles.
Also, Fandango ran a new survey this week on the Part 1 ticket-buying page on Fandango, and here are the results from more than 1,000 respondents. Some 70% of respondents to were age 34 or under; 73% are female:
– 97% say they’re excited to see the characters in a more mature Harry Potter storyline.
– 94% said the darker elements of Part 1 increase their interest in seeing the movie.
– 73% say they feel like they grew up with Harry Potter.
– 68% say that Daniel Radcliffe’s and Emma Watson’s “vigorous kissing” scene (Radcliffe’s wording) increases their interest in the movie.
– 52% predict Emma Watson will be the first, among the three stars, to win an Oscar for a future role.
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3700 midnight locations? That is INSANE. I don’t think any film will touch this film’s opening records… until The Hobbit part 1.
Until Avatar 2 or Spiderman Reboot
and DH part 1 is not even the big deal, imagine what part 2 will do to this world, plus 3D, im calling worldwide top gross of all time, plus all major records broken throught the way
No single Harry Potter movie has ever made more than $1 Billion worldwide (the closest HP movie to $1 Billion worldwide is the first one with $974 million worldwide).
Avatar made over $2.75 Billion worldwide.
In fact, if you take the top 3 grossing HP movies of all time (HP1 $974 million, HP/Phoenix $938 million and HP6 $933 million), combined they just barely beat Avatar worldwide gross by itself.
The top 3 HP movies = $2.845 Billion worldwide
Avatar by itself = $2.777 Billion worldwide
Ok, now you’re going to say that Avatar had the 3D grosses that helped it and that if you take ticket price inflation into account you would have a much different picture. Even so, Avatar still grossed much more than any Harry Potter film.
I can promise you, the last Harry Potter will not even come close to Avatar’s worldwide total. It won’t even come close to $1.5 Billion.
Maybe it will make about half of Avatar’s worldwide total, but then if you take ticket price inflation into account at that point, Avatar would be even further ahead of the final Harry Potter.
I still have no desire to see Avatar, but I will see Harry Potter and The Deathly Hallows, part 1. And I will buy it as soon as it’s available.
I’m sure James Cameron feels bad about not getting your money. But somehow I think he will get by with the money that Avatar has already grossed.
Avatar was a complete waste of money. But I’m glad I was a part of that $2.777B coz i watched it in IMAX.
I have not seen Avatar, and have no desire to do so. Avatar was an immensely popular movie, as you can see with the number. The Harry Potter series has touch millions of peoples lives in profound ways.
I am one of those who will stick with Harry until the very end.
“The Harry Potter series has touched millions of people’s lives in profound ways.”
Really? That’s so sad. A little strange too, but mostly sad.
dude.. honestly no one cares, im pretty sure its not a secret avatar is the most grossing movie ever. get off avatars dick.
Ok, to make you feel better, I will talk about Titanic.
No HP movie will even come close to the $1.8 Billion Titanic grossed worldwide.
In fact, I doubt any HP movie will gross more than the $1.1 Billion that Return Of The King grossed.
There have been six HP movies and none of them grossed over $1 Billion worldwide.
So, the point is that no HP movie will ever be the “worldwide top gross” as the person said above.
I honestly don’t know why someone who doesn’t like HP would get on here, where they know that HP was the “big thing” this weekend and talk smack about it. what’s the point? There isn’t. I liked Avatar, and I liked Titanic, but really? HP is NOW, and Avatar and Titanic were PAST. so Until Avatar comes out again, why talk about it compared to HP, you never know what will happen. I prob won’t see Avatar when it comes out again because it was really long, and quite honestly, gave me a headache. Ppl feel like they really “grew up” with HP. I’ve been reading them since I was 11 years old and have every book and movie that’s out so far. Great works of fiction. That’s one of the reasons they’re so popular. Take the totals from bookselling w/ each movie, b/c some ppl love the books but won’t watch the movie. Then see where Avatar and Titanic lie.
What the hell is wrong with you? you’re way too insecure with the potter movies. (Even if you wont admit it) Or are you just scared that HP7 might actually beat Avatar? I have nothing against Avatar since I love that movie. WE don’t care if Avatar is the highest grossing film of all time ok? so just shut the hell up! You dont have to repeat it over and over again coz we all know that. duh! how can you be that stupid?
dude calm down. its an idiot making a stupid prediction on the internet. you put way too much thought and work into refuting a moron.
I’m sorry for you.
Avatar was the biggest waste of time I’ve seen. I mix of Pocahontas and the Smurfs… If it touched you, perhaps you should try growing up. It might help.
Harry Potter is the most famous movie of our generation…
Avatar only grossed that much because 3D is damn more expensive. Here where I live you can see that. 3D is almost twice as expensive as 2D.
Harry Potter 7 part 2 will beat this stupid “blue people” movie… And James Cameron will wish he had sunk with Titanic…
Yeah, he’ll totally be crying at your words and HP’s grosses for sure.
“3D is almost twice as expensive as 2D.”
When you tell flat out lies, it’s hard to argue…LOL
“And James Cameron will wish he had sunk with Titanic…”
Really? Kinda childish. You mention that I need to grow up and then you say something like that?
By the way, not in a single one of my comments did I say that I love Avatar. I only stated the facts about the grosses of the movie.
I never said anything bad about HP either. I just stated the facts about how it’s box office won’t beat Avatar or Titanic or Return Of The King.
“Harry Potter 7 part 2 will beat this stupid ‘blue people’ movie”. You’re at least the second person to make this comment that will never come true, and that’s why we’re all going back and forth with the comments here. It all started with a person saying that the final HP movie will be the “world wide top gross of all time”.
It’s just that I have to show that person and now you, the error of your ways. Even some of the HP fans on here agree that the final HP will never beat Avatar. It’s an obvious fact. The HP series has already had 6 tries at making it past the $1 Billion mark, but failed every single time.
Now you are saying that all of the sudden tens of millions of more people are going to go see the final HP movie? Not going to happen.
Once again, to everyone on here, I’m just stating the facts. You all know that it’s true. You can call me stupid or whatever other childish reactions you have, it’s not going to change the facts.
Actually, I am laughing my ass off at some of these posts,
you guys have some clever $#!+… Anyways, check it out,
Avatar was very advanced, so it had the advantage of 3D and mass appeal and amazing CGI. James Cameron goes this route in all of his movies(best FX, returning emotional plotline, yet slightly graphic or violent) Also, his films are at a near perfect pace.
However, the movie was exceedingly predictable in the sense that, yes it did give people what they wanted, but for the third time in memorable flicks.
1. Pocahontas 2. Dances with Wolves 3. Avatar
Now we know a little secret, if you want academy awards and huge box office results, just make a movie about Man with migration of bad men, men want land/gold/other greedy shit…man wind up in indian territory, indians no trust bad white man, bad white man start prove himself, white man now indian, bad men come, indian white man join in fight at end against bad white men. A good story, but if this story comes out again, I’m going to…to… well, I guess there’s nothing I can do. Another thing that I’m not so sure about with Avatar is the lame over used poor choice of title font; Papyrus. This font has been used by: Chipotle restaurants(Na’vi enjoy burritos), the movie Serentity, and just about 10,000 independent businesses. lol. I find it kind of weird that the highest grossing film in history uses a knock-off font that comes with Windows. James Cameron, you are truly awesome.
I don’t feel there’s a point in rambling about competition between the films though, because if you think about it.
the HP series, LOTR trilogy, Avatar, Titanic, The Dark Knight…
These are high quality movies that have their reasons for being so F-ing popular and high grossing.
Return of the King is awesome.
What does it really matter whether HP beats Avatar or not? It made tons of money and cost a lot less. HP also has better merchandising ranging from books to theme parks. Oh, and Harry Potter at least in an interesting story. I can guarantee that Avatar 2 will have even less story than the first one. Blah. But back to my original point, yes Avatar made lots of money and so did HP. So who cares who made more? Both were successful. Move on.
Ummmm. Do you like Avatar or just want to make out with one? Since when is only making a billion bucks on a movie that actually has an original story not enough? I think the paper back of “Furn Gully” (oops, I mean) “Avatar” will only sell 6 copies and not pre-sell 12 million copies like Deathly Hollows did. Boo yah homie!
The Hobbit will NOT be a smash hit like this…
LOL…okay, bud. No, no, I’m sure the prequel to the LotR trilogy won’t be a smash hit “like this”.
Jesus H…
“HP7A keeps setting records — the 3rd biggest Friday ever and the 3rd biggest three-day weekend”
Can somebody please explain to me how third best is any kind of “record”? The hype around this franchise is approaching cynical levels.
And now with the update it’s “#5 among all-time 3-day opening weekends”. Woot.
POTTER IS A MAGICAL WIN.
MEGA‘S STILL A MINDFUL FRIEND.
UNSTOPPALBE LOOKS HOARY,
FUCK YOU MORNING GLORY!
AND MR. CROWE HAS CRAPPED OUT AGAIN.
No big crowds at my theater in CT. Watched Unstoppable and enjoy. Great big screen film.
No way. The Next 3 Days is going to kick their ass. Then Love and Other Diseases Hathaway’s character has will finish them off.
are you stupid? not only does the next three days not stand a chance, because its moronic to open the same day as harry potter. but love and other drugs wont touch harry potter. i would like to see 3 days& love and other drugs but realistically there is no way they will come close to harry potter.
Woosh.
Ahhh, the lovely sound of something going completely over someone’s head.
Sometimes I wonder if people actually come onto this board with such a specific intention of ripping other people to shreds that they haven’t even finished reading a post before they’ve begun typing their holier-than-thou response. I feel bad for those people. Really, really bad. Because clearly there’s something wrong in other areas of their life that they feel the need to knock down other people.
I don’t recall it being like this back when I first started reading DH about four years ago during the strike. People were thoughtful, courteous, and more importantly KNOWLEDGEABLE about the topics that they would comment on. There was a sense of solidarity…how I long for those days.
Thank you, Anonymous for a decent post.
I agree with you entirely; people just post comments to hurt other people. People who do this obviously have some issues and feal like they can take their anger out on someone they don’t know, because if they don’t know someone they don’t feal guilty about hurting their fealings.
I for one read articles, and if the article was interesting, such as this one, will post a comment about how I enjoyed the article, NOT freak out on someone who said how bad the article was.
I know. It’s like sports drinks are already watering crops and Ow My Balls is the #1 TV show in the country.
I was trying to reply to Alex, cause the movie reference had me cracking up. Sad/scary thing is you’re right…maybe Mike Judge is from the future…
damn you’re dumb, lady
Congrats to Lionsgate for spending $45 on production, $35 on P&A and landing @6.
Talk to you Monday,
Uncle Karl
I’m sure it will make one hundred bajillion, gksdhdioglkillion dollars its first weekend.
Emma deserves an Oscar nod for this movie. She’s literally the rock in this movie. Her performance holds this movie together and that is Oscar worthy.
I agree. I’ve always liked Emma Watson. She outdoes her other performances in HP. She does the torture part with Bellatrix very well, and I can’t wait to see Part 2, because I think Part 2 will really break some records. That’s where everything explodes. I, for one, am counting down! lol
I wonder what they are predicting this one to do for its opening weekend numbers. I am calling for $32 million for Midnight Showings alone, then $72.7 million opening day, and opening weekend $153 million.
You think this opening is going to be big? Wait until the summer when part 2 comes out. It will be the last chapter in the entire Potter Universe (for now) and will be enormous.
‘She’s literally the rock in this movie.’
hmmm … I think you mean figuratively the rock, otherwise, being a literal rock would make for few, if any, interesting scenes with her.
Then you need to check out her performance in 127 Hours.
that was legitimately funny.
i am LITERALLY laughing right now. No, really.
Sir Charles: you win the comedy gold for the weekend!
Is there a prize for the absolute, hands-down, best comment ever on DH?
Because you, Sir Charles, deserve it. Holy crap I can’t believe that I’m still laughing.
“She’s literally made of stone. LITERALLY! She’s like Ben Grimm from the Fantastic Four. A legendary comic book from which they made (at best) an average movie. A movie which will be crushed by this one that features a human rock as it’s greatest performance. A rock who looks great in a pair of jeans I might add.”
About 150 opening I’d guess. But that ain’t the story. Part 2 is the one to look out for. That one is gonna be a tsunami of almost biblical proportions. 200 million opening weekend easy for that one.
$200 mil opening easy, huh? you know what else is easy? being an anonymous loser on the internet making idiotic predictions about something you know nothing about.
It would be nice for some of supporting cast to get Oscar nods. The character roles are SUPERBLY played in all the HP movies. It’s time to be less hoity-toity about acknowledging actors in hit commercial films.
I would love to this movie win ANY Academy Award, but the Academy rarely, if ever, picks movies that entertain the masses ( children included ) for Awards. They always pick “message movies”.
I’m SO ready to see this movie. I got my tickets two weeks ago!! My friends waited too late, so we’re hoping the theater will have some available when we go. *fingers crossed*
The theater in my hometown sold out 13 midnight showings about a week ago.
Last HP, I left the cinema after 20 minutes. So so sooo boring. Met a girl at starbucks, got laid, now I am a father. Lesson to learn: Stay in the movie, its safe!
Oh that’s good
Many of my friends are not going to watch this movie until the next one comes out. Then they will watch them both together.
That’s silly. Why not watch it now…when it’s actually in theaters (granted, they may release it) and then watch it then? Why miss the experience now?
your friends are .000001% of HP fans and theyre also idiots.
The number of IMAX screens in this article is a joke. Most of those are new fake digital IMAX screens that have been recently installed. The number of real film-based IMAX screens is probably the same or slightly less. If seeing this (or any other movie) in IMAX, make sure you ask if it’s film or digital. If digital, you’re wasting your time and money in my opinion.
I really hope Deathly Hallows performs incredibly well, not because I care about Harry Potter, but because WB will be able to pour more money into the Dark Knight Rises. Its thanks to the success of films like Harry Potter that Chris Nolan is given bigger budgets to make his amazing films like Inception. So, go Harry!
No, it’s because Nolan’s own last two movies have made 1.8 billion dollars that Nolan gets to do whatever he wants.
i dont think nolan will have any problems getting whatever he wants for the next batman. hp’s box office revenue has nothing to do with it.
hi there
dont worry about the budget for the next Dark Knight movie. since the 1st film is so successful, WB definitely wont mind pumping a bit more money into it 
I hope this one is better than the last one.Talk about a snoozefest…
You’re not kidding. That was the worst of the series. I was fighting to stay awake while praying the credits would start to end the misery.
You will all be disappointed. The movie has two action scenes and all the rest talking. Any sign of trouble they escape to the tent and talk some more. I didnt remember the book being this boring
The first half of the book is slow. Things don’t get moving along until the middle of it. That said, I enjoyed Deathly Hallows Part 1. It was definitely truer to the material and better than Half-Blood Prince.
Difference of opinion on not enough action:
Many of us do not watch for the action scenes. As a matter of fact, I was disapointed as the series went on to see it turn into more of a mill-of-the-road action pic, with less of creating a magical world and characters and more of running,fighting, and quick MTV-style cuts.
So althought I know that action is a part of it, plot itself does not have to rely on peoople running around and fighting. Many of us enjoy the developing relationships, the magic and mysteries, and seeing the story itself unfold, rather than a lot of CG effects.
the “action” scenes are them just casting spells on each other. that shit is boring. its like the x-men action scenes where halle berry uses the weather for her power. LAME!
if that’s the case, why did you even watch the movie in the first place?? like seriously HP doesnt nid a person like you to watch the movie.
I’d love to know how many of those 239 “IMAX” screens are true IMAX screens and how many are the sham IMAX-branded not-really-IMAX screens.
People might think paying a premium for 3D is the biggest travesty, but in reality it is paying a premium to see films on a really big screen that really isn’t IMAX.
I work in a movie theater. Tonight we are going to get rocked! Good thing is that I get to see this for free. Yay me.
Harry Potter is pure, boring, crap. Only dorks dress up and go to the movies. Get a life!
Here here, Mr. RJ !
Only gentlemen should attend the theatre. Let the serfs have their little dress-up at the RedBox. It’s quite unpleasant to see such silly costumes while I pay for my lady’s cheese-dog and popcorn.
excuse me but dressing up to the movies is just showing support for the franchise. nothing more than that. i dont see what’s wrong with it ==
Wow, the radio station just reported a couple midnight screenings are my theater have been cancelled because someone actually stole or misplaced the film.
Look for it tomorrow on an internet near you.
Wowsa indeed!
Well, we should not be surprised should we? I mean, Harry has never disappointed his fans and this new one will deliver
Friday gross: USD65m
Sat gross : 38M
Sun gross: 32M
Total wknd b.o : 135M
i can’t believe avatar made that much money, honestly, harry potter is way better (even if the 6th one was crap) people were just curious by the 3D and yes that does contribute to a lot more money.
this one wasnt THAT good but im expecting the last one that everyone will go and watch it just because its the end of a worldwide phenomenon, people will want to see it on a big screen and take in the glory of the boy who lived. IT BETTER BRAKE RECORDS BADLY THAT NO ONE, NOTHING, WILL EVER BEAT!
A movie doesn’t make $2.7 billion worldwide just from people being “curious by the 3D”. I’m sure HP will end up doing serious green the first couple weekends, but like most franchises with a core, rabid fanbase (i.e. Twilight) it will die off around $350-400 million.
These last two Harry Potters have a good chance at $400 million domestic but really only two of them have broken $300 million domestic so far. And Twilight? That last one barely hit $300 million after the massive opening. Interestingly worldwide the lowest grossing Harry Potter out-earned the highest grossing Twilight by about $100 million.
Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban (2004) $795,458,727
Eclipse (2010/I) $694,523,113
I recognize Twilight is a huge financial success because it was done cheap, but it is not in the same league as Harry as far as box office and popularity worldwide.
Here we go, for the misinformed like yourself, the lowest grossing Twilight film is the first one; Twilight with $383,000,000 and the highest grossing one is New Moon with $709,000,000 (or 711 as the exact grossing sum isn’t known), Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban is the lowest grossing HP film with $729,000,000
New Moon:$709,000,000
HP POA:$729,000,000
The difference is only 20 million.
And New Moon and Eclipse passed the sales of any HP film domestcially, please revise the information you post.
As of the last two lines,”I recognize Twilight is a huge financial success because it was done cheap, but it is not in the same league as Harry as far as box office and popularity worldwide.”, Yes Twilight is a box office success but not as HP, but it is has the exact amount of popularity and better acting, at least in the first Twilight film, the acting was better than in Harry Potter and the Sorcerer, and as of Moviefone’s poll and debate between leas Twilight fansite Twilight Lexicon and lead HP fansite Mugglenet about the most popular series, Twilight won (check Moviefone) and that’s why Twilight is the one to win awards now.
Just letting you know, POA actually made 795,000,000, not $729m. I dont know where you got that figure from, but it’s incorrect.
And new Moon and Eclipse did not pass the sales of any HP film domestically, they made $296m and $301m whilst Philosophers Stone made $317m domestically.
It is true though that Twilight’s popularity in America in terms of box office is much to closer to Harry Potter’s than it is internationally.
I’m sorry but you are the one that should check your information before making stupid posts. Prisoner of Azkaban made $795 million while New Moon made $709 million. And we are talking about the highest grossing Twilight movie versus the lowest grossing Potter movie, not really a fair comparison, right? Well let us look now at this little fact, 3 out of 6 Potter movies made over 900 million worldwide, another 2 of those came damn close to 900.
I will repeat this for you in case you didn’t get it when it was first said, Twilight is NOT in the same league as Harry Potter in regard to box office success. Ok, now have a nice day.
I have no dog in this fight, but comparing the acting of children to the acting of adults in their 20s is kind of ridiculous.Not to mention the acting in Twilight was almost unbearable.As for awards, what award of substance did anyone involved with the Twilight movie win? And if you thinking Teen Choice, just don’t respond…
Exactly. Twilight is completely new and the books have expanded in sales based on the movies. This is a franchise that grew from the movies. The Harry Potter franchise started out as a massive book series. The movies obviously failed to hold the interest the books generated because the first movie made almost $400m inflation adjusted or $318m without the inflation adjustment and all the other Potter films have struggled to even make it to the $300m mark. Twilight obviously never started out as a billion dollar franchise the way Harry Potter did yet it is now more successful domestically than the Harry Potter franchise.
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Seriously? Does it matter who made more money. I avatar was great but I’ve been w the movies for 10yrs and since its the last people are going crazy. Box offices across the world are going to be insane!
I really enjoyed the first HP. But with every sequel its getting more boring!