Recordus Shatterum! Harry Potter Swan Song Scores Stunning $95 Million Opening Day
Um, wow. With effortless ease, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2 has poised itself to break virtually every opening-weekend box-office record known to Hollywood, with Friday's staggering midnight showing folding into a best-ever $95 million opening day. That far exceeds the earlier record of $72 million set by The Twilight Saga: New Moon in 2009, and sets the Potter finale up for a milestone $180 million (or more) three-day total. Not bad! And still, people saw other movies as well -- your Friday Box Office is here.
1. HARRY POTTER AND THE DEATHLY HALLOWS: PART 2: $95,000,000 (new)
2. TRANSFORMERS: DARK OF THE MOON: $6,800,000 ($303,000,000)
3. HORRIBLE BOSSES: $5,000,000 ($57,000,000)
4. ZOOKEEPER: $3,600,000 ($41,000,000)
5. CARS 2: $2,700,000 ($165,000,000)
Comments
You should have put something in here about Sarah Palin so those people would show up.
Gahhh! Missed opportunities. Don't think I won't be watching those numbers when they come in Monday morning, though.
A Winnie the Pooh movie also just opened.
God I wish I was an executive at Warner Bros. right now 🙁
Just not the one who greenlit "The Green Lantern"
This.