Alakaching! Harry Potter Breaks Midnight Record: Box Office 7/15-7/17
07-15-11, 12:21 PM
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Alakaching! Harry Potter Breaks Midnight Record: Box Office 7/15-7/17
Per Deadline...
Warner Bros said today that Harry Potter And The Deathly Hallows – Part 2 grossed $43.5M last night from 3,800 North American locations helped by higher 3D ticket prices, shattering the previous midnight screenings record of $30M set by Twilight Saga: Eclipse which was only a 2D movie. IMAX set another record midnight of $2M for the 3D franchise finale helpe. The franchise finale also scored 97% positive on Rotten Tomatoes. "Records will fly out the window this weekend," a studio exec is predicting. "All 3D theaters sold out to excellent reactions." The global cume is now $105.1M and counting...
07-15-11, 01:18 PM
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Re: Alakaching! Harry Potter Breaks Midnight Record: Box Office 7/15-7/17
$105 million... worldwide... in one DAY?
I wanna move into JK Rowling's broom closet... hell I'd settle for JK Simmons's garden shed...
I wanna move into JK Rowling's broom closet... hell I'd settle for JK Simmons's garden shed...
07-15-11, 01:20 PM
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Re: Alakaching! Harry Potter Breaks Midnight Record: Box Office 7/15-7/17
I'm going to figure the Warner Bros. are gonna go to JK Rowling's home and make her churn out another HP book Misery style sometime real soon.
07-15-11, 01:25 PM
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Re: Alakaching! Harry Potter Breaks Midnight Record: Box Office 7/15-7/17
Btw, $43M+ is insane. That's more than some films make in an opening weekend.
07-15-11, 03:29 PM
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Re: Alakaching! Harry Potter Breaks Midnight Record: Box Office 7/15-7/17
Damn. Good thing I didn't even try to go. I considered it last night. I remember that the Avatar midnight screening wasn't a big deal. I figured it'd be about the same for this.
Anyways, I'll give it a week and go see it with the old folks on some weekday morning.
Anyways, I'll give it a week and go see it with the old folks on some weekday morning.
07-15-11, 03:39 PM
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Re: Alakaching! Harry Potter Breaks Midnight Record: Box Office 7/15-7/17
Avatar didin't have anywhere near the hype leading into it. Potter is poised to have 2x the opening weekend Avatar did, and for what it's worth, Avatar made $3.5m at Midnight.
07-15-11, 04:18 PM
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Re: Alakaching! Harry Potter Breaks Midnight Record: Box Office 7/15-7/17
Some interesting history:
The final picture in the magical franchise topped all other Harry Potter movies’ midnight grosses. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows — Part 1 earned $24 million at midnight last year, while Half-Blood Prince pulled in $22.2 million. Part 2 also more-than-tripled the $12 million that Order of the Phoenix earned at midnight, and earned almost seven times as much as Goblet of Fire, which grossed $6.3 million at midnight.
http://insidemovies.ew.com/2011/07/1...ht-box-office/
The final picture in the magical franchise topped all other Harry Potter movies’ midnight grosses. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows — Part 1 earned $24 million at midnight last year, while Half-Blood Prince pulled in $22.2 million. Part 2 also more-than-tripled the $12 million that Order of the Phoenix earned at midnight, and earned almost seven times as much as Goblet of Fire, which grossed $6.3 million at midnight.
http://insidemovies.ew.com/2011/07/1...ht-box-office/
07-15-11, 08:03 PM
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07-15-11, 09:25 PM
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Avatar had a strange never ending run that only Cameron movies seem to have. Plus, everyone wanted to see that in 3d. Now, we aren't so interested. I do not think Harry will even get close to Avatar, but Harry will still have a great run.
07-15-11, 09:28 PM
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The 16 screen theater around here had it playing, sold out, on every screen at midnight, including one IMAX screen (arrived for IMAX 2 hours early and could only find two seats in the 3rd row or closer). Management actually opened up 3:00 am shows for overflow demand. I've never seen anything close to what I saw last night in terms of demand and enthusiasm.
