WEEKEND BOX OFFICE: HARRY POTTER DEATHLY HALLOWS PART 2 breaks opening weekend record with $168mil!!

"Take THAT Dark Knight!!"

Well, it was bound to happen.

Just like SPIDER-MAN 3 and DEAD MAN'S CHEST before it, THE DARK KNIGHT's weekend record of $158mil falls to the new king HARRY POTTER according to Deadline Hollywood.

HARRY POTTER AND THE DEATHLY HALLOWS PART 2 easily won the weekend and the opening weekend crown with an estimated gross of $168mil.  Amazing number consider it's the EIGHTH movie of a series but let's face it, these fans are dedicated.  But there's the 3D surcharge (on many screens) that would boost the gross as well so DARK KNIGHT may actually still hold the record for most tickets sold in a weekend.

THE DARK KNIGHT will get his revenge though;  I expect next year's DARK KNIGHT RISES to take the opening weekend crown back as it too is the conclusion of that series.




The rest:

2.  TRANSFORMERS 3D           $24mil wkd/$305mil total
3.  HORRIBLE BOSSES            $18mil wkd/$  60mil total (down 39% from last week's opening weekend)
4.  ZOOKEEPER                        $13mil wkd/$  43mil total (down 38% from last week's opening weekend)
5.  CARS 2                                  $ 8mil wkd/$ 165mil total
6.  WINNIE THE POOH              $ 8mil wkd/$     8mil total


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