When studio estimates were released tonight, Deathly Hallows Part 2 was the first movie after 3 years that finally managed to dethrone “The Dark Knight” to claim first spot in the All Time Opening Weekend chart.
While as we previously reported here that this latest potter movie broke the single day gross record by making a massive $92.1 million on its opening day. With such massive launch day gross, it was fully expected that the opening weekend will come close to $180 to $190 million. Sadly it was not the case here, after opening with large numbers the latest potter movie lost some of its steam and in the remaining 2 days it barely made enough to end up with a $168 million weekend gross.
For comparison’s sake, The Dark Knight started with $67 million on its Friday launch day and ended up with a $158 million by the end of its launch weekend. Another thing to consider here is the premium price of 3D tickets. The Dark Knight was not in 3D while in comparison, this latest Harry Potter movie is in 3D as well which means that the estimated attendance is way less then The Dark Knight’s attendance. Since 3D tickets are more expensive then average movie tickets they usually bump a movies gross even though the attendance may be lower.
Still such gross is a great success nonetheless and Warner Bros will be certainly happy with the results. This latest potter movie is setting new records on the foreign box office as well and had made about $307 million bringing its worldwide gross to a astronomical $475 million. This is a new record breaking gross from any movie launching worldwide and this easily beat Pirates 4 to become the top grossing debut weekend for a movie ever.