Coming as no surprise, the seventh Harry Potter film, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part 1, rocked the box office of this weekend with a $125.1 million take and a $330.1 million worldwide gross. Part one of this two-part finale which is slated to end on July 15th, 2011 grabbed a phenomenal $24 million on its Thursday night midnight opening alone, which is higher than some other movies’ weekend take. Flying past previous franchise installments, the 7th film in the series posted the highest numbers yet, putting Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire‘s $102.7 million a distant second. Opening approximately 9,400 screens at 4,125 locations, the franchise also set a new record number of IMAX venues (239), and they contributed an estimated $12.4 million, setting a new opening weekend benchmark for the format.
As a franchise, Harry Potter ranks second behind Star Wars with a $1.84 billion take versus $1.92 billion. With still another movie under its belt and the 7th film still early in its release time, Harry Potter will out Star Wars as the highest grossing franchise ever.
Also opening this weekend was the thriller nobody saw, The Next Three Days, which made an estimated $6.8 million on close to 2,700 screens at 2,564 locations. Megamind still faired decent, but couldn’t help falling 45% to earn another $16.2 million. Though the film has earned $109.5 million in 17 days, it still trails behind this year’s release of Despicable Me which had $161.3 million by day 17. Also on its 17th day, comedy Due Date fell another 41%, putting its total at $72.7 million. Unfortunately, Morning Glory couldn’t find much of a new audience, falling 43% and gaining only $5.2 million, putting the films 12 day total at a lousy $19.9 million.
Unstoppable had a better then average slow down of 42%. gaining another $13.1 million to put the films US gross at $41.8 million and $61.1 million for its total world wide gross. The Tony Scott film had a $100 million budget. The hack alien invasion film, Skyline fell a whopping 71% to gain only $3.4 million this weekend. The film has earned $17.7 million so far on its $10 million budget.
Box Office Results:
- Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part 1 – $125.1 million ($330.1 million total worldwide)
- Megamind – $16.1 million ($136.4 million total worldwide)
- Unstoppable – $13.1 million ($61.1million total worldwide)
- Due Date – $9.1 million ($119.5 million total worldwide)
- The Next Three Days – $6.7 million ($6.7 million total worldwide)
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