Harry Potter And The Deathly Hallows Part 2 Beats Captain America To The Top Of The UK Box Office!

Harry Potter And The Deathly Hallows Part 2 Beats Captain America To The Top Of The UK Box Office!

In some disappointing, yet somewhat unsurprising news, the final Harry Potter movie stopped Captain America taking the #1 spot in the UK by making nearly twice as much! Details after the jump...

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By JoshWilding - Aug 01, 2011 02:08 PM EST
Filed Under: Captain America
Source: Digital Spy

Digital Spy report that Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2 has managed to stop the latest movie from Marvel Studios, Captain America: The First Avenger from reaching the #1 spot at the UK box office. Coming in at the top spot for a third consecutive week, the boy wizard's reign was unfortunately not brought to an end by the super soldier.

The site also point out that the £2,981,590 made by Captain America falls well short of THOR and X-Men: First Class which both opened to £5.4 million. Of course, that's hardly surprising as both of them opened up to very little competition, and certainly nothing matching the hugely popular Potter franchise. The last movie in the series took in £4,567,581.



STARRING:

Chris Evans as Steve Rogers/Captain America
Sebastian Stan as Bucky
Hayley Atwell as Peggy Carter
Hugo Weaving as Johann Schmidt/Red Skull
Toby Jones as Arnim Zola
Stanley Tucci as Abraham Erskine
Tommy Lee Jones as Col. Chester Phillips
Dominic Cooper as Howard Stark
Neal McDonough as Dum Dum Dugan
JJ Field as Union Jack
Derek Luke as Gabe Jones
Kenneth Choi as Jim Morita

RELEASE DATE: July 22nd, 2011. (US) July 29th, 2011. (UK)




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JatevinM
JatevinM - 8/1/2011, 2:30 PM
You hear that Avatar its the sound of Harry Potter coming for you.
WolvieCBM
WolvieCBM - 8/1/2011, 2:37 PM
Not surprising at all. Let's see how Cap will do next week worldwide. So far, it's doing pretty good.
Illcommunicatione
Illcommunicatione - 8/1/2011, 2:38 PM
gonna see cap tomorrow (in UK) so you can add £20 from me and friends ;)
Frogman
Frogman - 8/1/2011, 2:42 PM
Its not surprising really, Potter originated in the UK and Captain America will obviously have a larger appeal to American audiences. Don't get me wrong, I was there opening night of Cap in the UK and I loved it!
BooYah
BooYah - 8/1/2011, 2:44 PM
AWW HELL NAW!!!

GIFSoup
Ceejay
Ceejay - 8/1/2011, 2:51 PM
Potter is winding down big time, not a chance in hell of catching Titanic let alone Avatar!
JoshWilding
JoshWilding - 8/1/2011, 2:53 PM
Such a shame...I am disappointed in my fellow Brits, lol. Why the [frick] didn't they go and see Potter when it came out a few weeks back?! Regardless, this is close to $5 million, so that's a decent enough contribution to it's overall takings I suppose! :)
Fantine
Fantine - 8/1/2011, 2:55 PM
@Josh As a Brit, I saw Harry Potter ages ago! and have already seen Cap twice...
JoshWilding
JoshWilding - 8/1/2011, 2:57 PM
Same here CatwomanLover! Hoping to squeeze in a third showing sometime in the next couple of weeks.
JatevinM
JatevinM - 8/1/2011, 3:02 PM
N@ Wow someone is just jealous that Potter is doing better than Cap. Harry Potter is by no means a shitty movie or series.
PaulRom
PaulRom - 8/1/2011, 3:04 PM
@Grif ROFLOL!!!!
At least Cap beat HP in America. since HP is British, of course he'd beat the shit outta Cap in England.
Simply7Muggs
Simply7Muggs - 8/1/2011, 3:06 PM
Avatar is still over a billion away from potter. F'ing Camron is box office god.
Fogs
Fogs - 8/1/2011, 3:07 PM
It wouldn't happen if CA was called "The first yank lad".
WellDrawn
WellDrawn - 8/1/2011, 3:10 PM
What did you expect? It's Harry Potter, and it's England.
SuperDan89
SuperDan89 - 8/1/2011, 3:13 PM
Seen both, like both.

That's not bad for Caps when he isn't as well known as the Supermans/Batmans/Spidermans etc however would a Captain Britain sell well in the US?
Jennn
Jennn - 8/1/2011, 3:14 PM
Thor opened to about $9M USD compared to Cap's $5M.

Since Thor grossed about 22.5M, I don't think it's far off to say that Cap grosses about 13M in the UK.
Radiate
Radiate - 8/1/2011, 3:17 PM
Disappointing news but not surprising. I'm from the UK and I was really surprised that all the cinemas in my area had hardly any screenings of Captain America whereas Harry Potter still had loads! And this was C.A.'s opening weekend! I dunno whether Marvel Studios screwed the pooch here or whether UK cinemas just didn't want to show C.A. as much as HP, but it's very telling!
Radiate
Radiate - 8/1/2011, 3:17 PM
Disappointing news but not surprising. I'm from the UK and I was really surprised that all the cinemas in my area had hardly any screenings of Captain America whereas Harry Potter still had loads! And this was C.A.'s opening weekend! I dunno whether Marvel Studios screwed the pooch here or whether UK cinemas just didn't want to show C.A. as much as HP, but it's very telling!
Radiate
Radiate - 8/1/2011, 3:17 PM
Disappointing news but not surprising. I'm from the UK and I was really surprised that all the cinemas in my area had hardly any screenings of Captain America whereas Harry Potter still had loads! And this was C.A.'s opening weekend! I dunno whether Marvel Studios screwed the pooch here or whether UK cinemas just didn't want to show C.A. as much as HP, but it's very telling!
Radiate
Radiate - 8/1/2011, 3:18 PM
And there's the annoying triple post. Sorry guys!
JoshWilding
JoshWilding - 8/1/2011, 3:18 PM
PaulRom/WellDrawn: Captain America didn't get beaten by Harry Potter in England, it got beaten in the UK. England is just one of four countries in Britain remember. :)
PaulRom
PaulRom - 8/1/2011, 3:20 PM
@Josh Woops, my bad. :P
AC1
AC1 - 8/1/2011, 3:21 PM
i saw Harry Potter twice, but I'm going to (hopefully) see Cap the same number of times. I'm going on Wednesday to see it for the first time, I'm so excited, it looks fantastic!
Illcommunicatione
Illcommunicatione - 8/1/2011, 3:24 PM
@PaulRom

"At least Cap beat HP in America."

Did it...

I thought HP smashed Cap, 1st weekend and first week figures in US?

unless you mean by knocking it off no.1 (which i believe smurfs & C&A just did to cap...)
Frecks
Frecks - 8/1/2011, 3:28 PM
Potter is Lame (im English and i say that with pride) , Cap is awesome, stupid non nerdy British people, it makes us nerdy British people look bad!
eatmyhit
eatmyhit - 8/1/2011, 3:35 PM
I just love how us English always get called British you would'nt call a Scot,welshman or Irishman a brit (unless his Andy Murray).

Anyway I wouldnt worry to much as the schools are out for the summer holidays so may see more kids going weekdays to the cinema rather than the weekends!!.
Illcommunicatione
Illcommunicatione - 8/1/2011, 3:36 PM
" HAHAHAH!!!!!Brits love the little homo with a wand. What a bunch of pampas ass holes. Guess they don’t want to be reminded that America stole their little Empires’ thunder. Fu Ck the rest of the world, and yes I’m an ugly American who don’t give a shit what you think. Stick to your fag monarchies and watch those useless [frick]s be rich and spoiled at your country’s’ expense. "

see this statement is more representative of America, now if Cap had been played by Michael Moore then it would be more believable...

or if maybe S Rogers was an Obese kid going into the super weight loss program...
eatmyhit
eatmyhit - 8/1/2011, 3:37 PM
@Warrocketajax @wittysupername, Atleast were not having to borrow Billions upon Billions from the chinese just to stop are crumbling economic system. Hows it feel to be china's bitch??
JoshWilding
JoshWilding - 8/1/2011, 3:56 PM
eatmyhit: I'm Welsh AND British. I just hate how some people refer to Britain/UK as "England". :P
JoshWilding
JoshWilding - 8/1/2011, 3:58 PM
teabag: Ha, well said brother! :)
JoshWilding
JoshWilding - 8/1/2011, 3:59 PM
tea: I posted that comment before seeing your cutting remark you English son of a bitch! ;D
Simply7Muggs
Simply7Muggs - 8/1/2011, 4:01 PM
@eatmyhit Don't trip on those d-bags dude. They give Americans like me a bad name. I happen to enjoy alot of thingss that are English starting with the language itself! We live in the 2 greatest countries in the world! and there is no reson to fight with one another.
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