Harry Potter cast his final spell on fans worldwide, shattering box office records over the weekend, earning $168.5 million and setting a new all-time record for the highest-grossing opening weekend in North America, one previously held by “The Dark Knight.”
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows – Part 2, the eighth and final film of the J.K. Rowling fantasy, earned more than $475 million worldwide and also set new highs for biggest midnight screening, $43.5 million, and biggest IMAX film, $15.5 million.
This installment marks a fitting farewell to a series about a teen wizard and his friends battling evil that has become the highest-grossing franchise of all time.
The eight films in the series have sold about $7 billion in tickets at the worldwide box office.{
The most inspiring result of the Potter magic is how it got kids reading. They lined up at midnight to buy a book with 700 pages and went home to read it – again and again. The 7-book series not only made J.K. Rowling the first billionaire publisher, it gave kids a reason to love reading again.
[…] preorders, as well. No one’s added up the sales so far, but the last Harry Potter book, “The Deathly Hallows” part two, released in 2007, sold 11 million copies in the first 24 hours after its […]