Wednesday, July 15, 2009

Harry Potter may bash Dark Knight at the box office

Previous Potter pics have posted cumulative domestic grosses ranging upward from the $249.5 million fetched by 2004's "Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban," with 2001 franchise launcher "Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone" enjoying the series' best domestic take to date: $317.6 million.

SHOOT: It seems the 18th of July weekend is the treasured date for any blockbuster to get maximum money. Dark Knight got it last year, so Potter decided to hang around on his broomstick for a year. Looks like the strategy is going to pay off.

Potter is certainly a beautiful effort, trumped though by Star Trek - just, in my opinion.
read my review here: http://www.nickvanderleek.com/2009/07/latest-harry-potter-movie-is-fine-film.html
clipped from www.reuters.com
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If ever there was a film release almost certain to turn a tidy profit, it would be any Harry Potter movie, and Warner Bros. executives can rest assured that Wednesday's debut of the franchise's sixth installment will pile the grosses high through Sunday. But to understand just how fervently studio insiders will be hoping for a muscular box-office bow by "Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince," consider that this time last year Warners launched a little film called "The Dark Knight" to rather good effect.

"The reviews are great," Warners domestic distribution president Dan Fellman said with a what-me-worry nonchalance. "I think it's the best Harry Potter picture so far. Certainly, as the cast matures, they keep getting better."

In a sign of just how hot tickets sales have been for "Prince," industryites are whispering that the "Potter" pic has an outside shot at besting the record $18 million midnight box office registered by "The Dark Knight" last July 18.
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