Harry Potter Box Office

Harry Potter Box Office

Harry Potter Box Office: The boy wizard is still casting a box-office spell a decade on, with the latest movie already breaking records.

Studio estimates report that Part 1 of the two-part finale made a franchise record $125.1m over its opening weekend in the US.

Harry Potter And The Deathly Hallows: Part 1 also added 205 million dollars (£128.2 million) in 54 overseas countries, bringing the film’s worldwide total to 330.1 million dollars (£206.44 million).

In terms of US revenue, Deathly Hallows: Part 1 came in ahead of the series’ best previous debut of 102.7 million dollars (£64.23 million) for 2005′s Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire.

But factoring in the higher admission prices, the latest movie had roughly the same size audience as the franchise’s best previous draws – Goblet Of Fire and 2001′s Harry Potter And The Sorcerer’s Stone, which launched the series.

Deathly Hallows and those two earlier movies each sold around 16 million tickets in their first weekend.

Overseas markets for Deathly Hallows were led by a 28 million dollars opening in Great Britain (£17.51 million), 21.8 million dollars (£13.63 million) in Germany, 14.8 million dollars (£9.26 million) in Australia, 14 million dollars (£8.76 million) in Japan and 12.3 million dollars (£7.69 million) in Russia.

Tom Cruise’s Japanese take on Dances With Wolves certainly has the gloss, but the style ever-so-slightly outweighs the substance.

The Cruiser’s belief that he can use the same set of facial expressions in every role he plays is certainly highlighted here – perhaps not as much as his hair – but regardless of the lead performance, The Last Samuria is an effective action flick that wears its heart on its armoured sleeve.