New Harry Potter Film Already a Smash Hit
It seems as though the decision to move the opening of the newest Harry Potter film, Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince, from last fall to this month hasn't done a thing to hurt box office attendance. It's only Thursday, and the film is already a resounding success.
The Wednesday midnight showings pulled in a record-breaking $22.2 million, besting The Dark Knight's $18 million pull last year. Wednesday's total was at $58.4 million. It is expected that the film could earn $200 million (or more!) this weekend alone.
It appears as though Harry Potter is on pace to break all kinds of box office records, and possibly even dethrone 1997's all-time box office leader, The Titantic. It looks like the 2008's The Dark Knight could also lose it's number 2 spot on the all-time box office list as well.
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There is no way that HP6
There is no way that HP6 will make $200 million this weekend. It *may* have a TOTAL of $200 million by the end of the weekend, but no way it makes that much Fri-Sun.
HP6 is also trailing Dark Knight in day one, so I am unsure why anyone would guess it will beat it in the long run, especially since all previous summer Harry Potter films faded more quickly than Dark Knight did...
In addition, the biggest Harry Potter film, The Sorcerer's Stone, made $317 million... that is a gigantic $216 million short of Dark Knight's final numbers.
Which brings up Titanic... the final tally for Titanic was $600 million. The aforementioned Sorcerer's Stone was the only HP film to make even HALF of that.
Don't expect HP to make much north of $350 million by the end of its run, if even that. It will probably end up in the top 20 grossing movies of all time, but will be extremely hard pressed to crack the top 10.
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