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Weekend Box-Office: Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2 Smashes Box Office and Records

Seth Paul

Move over, Transformers…Harry Potter is back, and is cleaning up all over the place. Not only did Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2 take the weekend with $168.6 million, it also managed to land the #1 spot in numerous categories, including best opening day and best opening weekend of all time. With nearly $500 million worldwide, in one weekend it has made half of Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides total worldwide gross, putting it well on-track to being the biggest moneymaker of the summer, if not the year. Helping it along, surely, is its near universal critical acclaim as well…unlike the previous box office winner, Transformers: Dark of the Moon, whose stunning performance goes in the face of its critical reception. Despite nearly $300 million domestically, its weekend take was well behind the boy wizard…only $21.3 million…but for its third week, it continues to hold up decently.

Also holding their own with only minor drops in totals are the comedy winner Horrible Bosses ($17.6 million) and the mediocre family comedy Zookeeper ($12.3 million). Cars 2 continues a steady decline, dropping out of double digits with $8.3 million, while Disney follows suit with the second debut of the week, Winnie the Pooh, with $8 million. The yellow bear hasn’t shown much in the way of moneymaking potential (it started with a $30 million price tag), but he has proven himself to be quite popular among critics, and performed almost equally as well internationally.

Bad Teacher continues its descent earning only $5.2 million…having already performed quite admirably, $88 million in four weeks…and Larry Crowne just manages to come in over budget, its $2.6 million weekend earnings giving it a $31 million domestic total over its $30 million budget. Super 8 suffered the biggest drop over the weekend, down 60% from last week to a little over $1.9 million, but it too has performed handsomely with $122.2 million during its eight week run. And just because you fall off the list doesn’t mean you can’t come back: despite losing revenue from the week before, Midnight in Paris made enough to put it back in the Top Ten, earning just shy of $1.9 million.

Weekend Box-Office (July 15 – July 17)

  1. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part 2…$168.6 million
  2. Transformers: Dark of the Moon…$21.3 million
  3. Horrible Bosses…$17.6 million
  4. Zookeeper…$12.3 million
  5. Cars 2…$8.3 million
  6. Winnie the Pooh…$8 million
  7. Bad Teacher…$5.2 million
  8. Larry Crowne…$2.6 million
  9. Super 8…$1.9 million
  10. Midnight in Paris…$1.9 million

Seth Paul

When not failing to write novels and screenplays, box-office guru Seth writes humorous comedy tracks for films under the name "The One Man Band" that can be found at Rifftrax.com. Although, he has recently succeeded in writing the novella "Jack Alan and the Case of the Not-Exactly Rocket Scientists," available as an eBook on Amazon. He is also the English voice of Zak in "Zak McKracken: Between Time and Space."
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