Harry Potter Earns Early $25 Million Dollars

Harry Potter Earns Early $25 Million Dollars

The Deathly Hallows part 2 makes $25 million mostly of which is from midnight screenings.

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By BooYah - Jul 12, 2011 06:07 PM EST
Filed Under: Fantasy
Source: variety.com

Variety.com reports:
The end is near for Harry Potter fans, and if advanced ticket sales are any indication, opening B.O. numbers for "Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2" will be wicked.
Already, "Part 2" has earned a reported $25 million in advanced domestic ticket sales, the majority of which comes from midnight screenings, according to Warner Bros.

The final Potter pic's early coin suggests the film could match -- if not surpass -- the previous midnight benchmark set by "The Twilight Saga: New Moon," with $30 million in late-night grosses. (Warners said "Part 2" likely will see a boost in advanced ticket sales before Friday, ending up with an additional $5 million-$6 million.)


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GrandRapidsHero
GrandRapidsHero - 7/12/2011, 7:27 PM
@superguy, i agree. I cant wait for Cap (cause i could careless about HP) but it should have been released on the 4th
tazmaniak
tazmaniak - 7/12/2011, 7:33 PM
It's going to compete with Harry Potter's second weekend, so while it may be close, I can see Captain America being #1.Harry Potter will probably make about $45M in it's second week, and I'm sure Cap will do somewhere around mid $50M - mid $60M.
BorisSenna
BorisSenna - 7/12/2011, 7:50 PM
Harry Potter will bust its nut with this early, mid-week mid-night release.

Cap`s gonna be a great movie and will CERTAINLY earn more than X-Men:First Class on its first weekend.

HP will earn what it will, no sense fighting against it. Cap is running its own race, far-far away from the HP, Transformers and Pirates league.

Just no sense in saying it won't make it to the $50 million mark.
BorisSenna
BorisSenna - 7/12/2011, 7:57 PM
And I dispute the "bad marketing" call.

Transformers 3 competes much closer with Captain America than Harry Potter. Not exactly separate demographics, but one has more in common with Cap than the other.

Harry Potter falls more in the fantasy-adventure genre, while Cap and Transformers both fall in the same, loose, SciFi-Action genre. And Captain America will have the same broad appeal as both the other movies, from what trailers revealed.

Just too soon to call it a dud or a success yet, but I still feel strongly positive about this flick.
BooYah
BooYah - 7/12/2011, 7:57 PM
Im planning on watching Cap in theaters and wait till this comes on DVD and I've seen and read every Harry Potter.
Gamester76
Gamester76 - 7/12/2011, 8:53 PM
OMG; Its X-Files 2 all over again! Fox made this exact same mistake back in 2008 after releasing X-Files 2 immediately after The Dark Knight. X- Files was not that bad; the competition was just too stiff. Its almost as if any movie released immediatelynafterna garunteed Warner Bros. Summer blockbusternis certainly doomed to fail.
BorisSenna
BorisSenna - 7/12/2011, 11:42 PM
We can look at X-Files 2 (that has a 34% approuval rate on rottentomatoes.com) and The Dark Knight.

OR we can look at how Harry Potter 7 almost lost the #1 spot last year to the animated Tangled (HP-$57 million; TNG-$55 million).

OR we can look to "Inception", who premiered last year in the same week as HP8 will this year, that managed to stay in 1st place at the boxoffice for three weeks. Except that Inception had Leonardo DiCaprio, plus Michael Cane and directed by Batman's Nolan, while his competition was Angelina's "Salt" on it's second week, and Dinner for Schmucks on the third weekend.

I think July 22nd is gonna be very, very close.
BooYah
BooYah - 7/14/2011, 11:23 AM
@wesleygibson Well when you want sequels you care about the box office.
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