On September 29th, its seventy-seventh day in release, Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince broke the $300 million mark here in the U.S.
It’s only the second Potter film after the first, Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone, to do so.
Overall, grosses for the Potter movies have been climbing since Prisoner of Azkaban:
Sorcerer’s Stone: $318 million
Chamber [...]
Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince scored $29.5 million in its second weekend, down a steep-but-expected 62% and coming in at second place below a surprisingly strong $32 million showing for G-Force, the talking gerbils movie.
Of course, Half-Blood Prince still has not one but two aces up its sleeve. The first is its overseas gross: [...]
Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince scored a record-breaking $396.7 worldwide over the Wednesday to Sunday span, making it the biggest five-day start of any movie ever. $159.7 million of that came from the U.S., which isn’t quite as record-breaking but is still 13% bigger than what Order of the Phoenix did two years ago.
The [...]
Any half-baked theories that Harry Potter has lost his relevance can officially be put to rest as the stunning numbers just came in from last night’s screenings, which began at midnight: $22.2 million. That beats The Dark Knight’s record of $18.5, handily trounces Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen’s $16 million, and nearly doubles the $12 [...]
Sunday, October 4, 2009
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