Friday, July 22, 2011

Magic In Numbers

The last instalment of Harry Potter has break some pretty records and "accio-ed" in some impressive amounts. Here's a breakdown of the magical numbers, credit to Mugglenet.com

In terms of advanced ticket sales, Deathly Hallows Part 2 managed to pull in US$32 million.

The film holds the top midnight box-office record of US$43.5 million,  previously held by 2010 The Twilight Saga: Eclipse at $30 million.

On the Opening DayDeathly Hallows Part 2 made US$92.1 million in the States, $20 million more than the previous record holder, The Twilight Saga: New Moon.

More impressively, Deathly Hallows Part 2 took in more money than 4 of the previous seven Harry Potter films did over their entire opening weekends, in a single day!

It also has the honour of being top opening weekend film of all time in the States, bringing in an estimate of US$169 million, a comfortable distance from the previous record holder The Dark Knight's US$158 million.

Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part 2 finished the opening weekend making US$475.5 million worldwide.

By July 20th, it has crossed the half a billion dollars mark, upping the total to US$604.8 million worldwide.

The Harry Potter movie franchise have accumulated $2.223 billion, compared to $2.218 billion for Star Wars franchise, becoming the top grossing movie franchise of all time.

To project it domestically, in Singapore, Deathly Hallows Part 2 earned $3 million for the opening weekend. No bad for a contribution.

This is the power of the fans. This is what I call magic.

-Statistics credited to BoxOfficeMojo-