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JULY 15, 2007 at 4:02 PM
Posted by GERI
Source: Yahoo! News
This shouldn't be a surprise to fans but with only five days of release behind it Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix has garnered
over $330 million from worldwide sales.
Domestically the movie has grossed $140 million since opening last Wednesday, making it the number one movie this weekend in the U.S. where it made $77.4 million. Overseas the movie reaped more than $190 million.
By comparison, in its first five days the movie is $30 million ahead of Goblet of Fire and over $40 million ahead of the last summer Potter release, which was Prisoner of Azkaban. Still, the fifth moive in the franchise didn't make as much in total as the previous movies for weekend tallies.
Dan Fellman, head of distribution for Warner Bros. said:
We're in the middle of summer, and we just said why not, because kids are out of school. It certainly turned out to be the right decision.
Order of the Phoenix did more business in five days than each of the first three Harry Potter movies did in their first full week, and it nearly matched the $146 million first week total of the fourth film, Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire.
UPDATE: The movie has also broken virtually every opening box office record at IMAX® theatres during its debut, contributing $7.3 million of the $140. The fifth movie also broke the record for IMAX's largest single day worldwide total at $1.9 million and posted a domestic opening per screen average of $80,500.
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Witch
Points: 640
Melian Potter says:
Sorry but numbers that big are just too big!
My brain doesn´t seem to really understand them.
Thanks for the info, though!
Posted Jul 16, 2007 at 6:12 PM EST
Order of Merlin, 1st Class
Points: 1945
Carrie Weasley says:
Wow, that's insane. But not unexpected. And completely deserved. This was the best one yet, I think. I'm happy to say that I contributed about $20 to that total. :D
Posted Jul 16, 2007 at 6:16 PM EST
Witch
Points: 534
~AlyPotter~ says:
This is incredible. Many movies will never make this amount of money throughout their whole run in the theatres. That just comes to show you how strong the HP fandom is. I saw it on Friday and it was Awesome. Can't wait to see it again next weekend.
Posted Jul 16, 2007 at 6:33 PM EST
The Quibbler Poet
Points: 7054
.:Wicked T:. says:
Congrats for the movie I mean they deserve it because i thought it was super awesome. It was a cool movie.
Posted Jul 16, 2007 at 6:44 PM EST
Student
Points: 231
IROCKMYFIREBOLT says:
Wow...that is a lot of money!!!
Posted Jul 16, 2007 at 7:19 PM EST
Order of Merlin, 4th Class
Points: 1333
humes says:
Congratulations!
Saw Dan Radcliffe's half-hour interview with Larry King on CNN Sunday night. I liked his response to the last question from a fan, the one about what he would use his wand for in real life. Hemmed and hawed before King prompted him with "World Peace", then cracked, "That's a Miss America answer... that's the one I'm going with!" High comedy!
Posted Jul 16, 2007 at 8:05 PM EST
Head Girl
Points: 460
KatJohnson says:
And of the $330 million, say $200 million goes into production cost (not including salaries), and we know about $50 million goes to Dan (or some obnoxiously large amount like that), around $2.5 million each go to Emma and Rupert, and goodness knows how much is going to the other big actors... is WB making a profit in the end? Well, since this is just the first week, I suppose they start raking in the real profits next week, and also from DVD sales, which will be incredible as well. I can't wait for the DVD to come out because I can already see some of the deleted scenes that were in the trailers but not in the movie.
Posted Jul 16, 2007 at 8:14 PM EST
Student
Points: 219
Veri_Lara says:
That's amazing! they deserve it, they all work very hard for these movies.
I can not wait to watch the movie again tomorrow!
Posted Jul 16, 2007 at 8:47 PM EST
Witch
Points: 830
Barbarian Black says:
It also helps that it so much better than the others. Finally a satisfying adaptation. Only complaint was that the Percy story should have been developed if they were going to just pop him into a scene.
Posted Jul 16, 2007 at 9:41 PM EST
Squib
Points: 111
the prepsta says:
330 million wow that is so much money for the opening weekend, and 77 million comming from the US that is sweet.
Posted Jul 16, 2007 at 10:33 PM EST
Witch
Points: 760
Mrs. S. Snape says:
It's scary to think of that much money heading off to see a film. I"m not sure what they mean by not making more than the others...is that because the others made more over the weekend and this one made it up during the week?
Posted Jul 16, 2007 at 11:06 PM EST
Squib
Points: 120
(ES) says:
Cool. I thought it would be the number one movie while shattering records along the way. Now $330 million is a crazy load of money.
Posted Jul 17, 2007 at 12:37 AM EST
Muggle
Points: 91
Ms Lovegood.... says:
To tell the truth im not really suprised because it was a fabulous movie they did a fantastic job on it....
Wow i wish i had 330 million dollars...but i dont....
Meh what are you gonna do....Yay for them.
Posted Jul 17, 2007 at 2:09 AM EST
Squib
Points: 170
MisterPalindrome says:
This is really nice to hear. The movie series has been getting better and better with each new film, and it's good to see that ticket sales reflect that fact. I saw the movie in IMAX, and the theater was completely full, so I'm not surprised it's breaking records. I can't wait to go see it again!
Posted Jul 17, 2007 at 2:19 AM EST
Witch
Points: 881
Just Dance says:
thats alot of money ! . I'm not surprised though the movie was fabulous . I think it was best one so far .
Posted Jul 17, 2007 at 8:57 AM EST
Order of Merlin, 3rd Class
Points: 1588
ravenbeaut says:
330 million in 5 days?! Wow! That's a lot of dough. Smart move releasing it in the summer.
Posted Jul 17, 2007 at 6:06 PM EST
Prefect
Points: 330
WendyPotter says:
I knew that would happen..the movie is great...except they cutted way too many scenes.
Wendy
Posted Jul 17, 2007 at 6:17 PM EST
Order of Merlin, 4th Class
Points: 1234
Krum says:
Yea....tthats right. Harry Potter ownnnssss.
Posted Jul 17, 2007 at 8:46 PM EST
Professor
Points: 1161
sno-chik says:
Sweet! That's alot of money! It was a good decision for them to put it in the summer, and so close to DH. It just stirred the Harry Potter pot, and made people want it more!
*smiles*
Posted Jul 17, 2007 at 9:18 PM EST
Order of Merlin, 2nd Class
Points: 1763
hufflepuff_babe says:
I love that this film is doing so great. It definatly deserves all of the movie-goers though. The best Harry Potter film yet!!
Posted Jul 18, 2007 at 12:37 AM EST
St. Mungo's Mental Patient
Points: 41829
Phil_ says:
Wow this is crazy money, i know i shouldn't be surprised by this anymore, but i always am, Mind you this movie actually looks really amazing.
Posted Jul 18, 2007 at 9:10 AM EST
Order of Merlin, 3rd Class
Points: 1550
the_girl_who_lived89 says:
Wow! Cool! Amazing! Fantastic! Well i am not suprised :)
Posted Jul 20, 2007 at 5:24 PM EST
Squib
Points: 144
sinjun13_granger says:
Yes! I knew this a long time ago, but I just wanted to express it again! Sucks that its number two in the box office now.
Posted Jul 26, 2007 at 7:11 PM EST
Auror
Points: 2860
mad_eye muggle says:
WoW!That's totally awesome!You go OotP!HP RULES!
Posted Jul 28, 2007 at 3:03 AM EST
Heiress of Gryffindor
Points: 3537
Nienna Narmolanya says:
Exactly, these things are never a surprise to me. Harry Potter is bound to do well, anywhere, until it's all over. 330 million dollars? Worldwide? That's it? Haha, it should break into the billions one of these days. Maybe with the Deathly Hallows movie. Hmm, did the Deathly Hallows book bring in over a billion dollars?
Posted Jul 29, 2007 at 10:20 AM EST
Witch
Points: 953
im freeeeeeeeee says:
WOW thats amazing I expected just as much but WOW!!! hha id love to get that check :)
Posted Aug 2, 2007 at 12:06 AM EST
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