With an astounding estimated worldwide box office total of more than $476 million, Warner Bros. Pictures’ “Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows – Part 2” shattered multiple domestic and international box office records in a history-making opening weekend. While the film topped the previous record holder, “The Dark Knight,” in dollars it must be noted that these box office figures includes the inflated cost of 3D theater tickets.
The Top-12 grossing motion pictures for the weekend, per data collected as of Sunday, July 17, 2011 are as follows:
Rank | Film Name | Distributor Name | Weekend Revenue | Cume Revenue | Locs | Loc Avg |
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1 | Harry Potter And The Deathly Hallows II | Warner Bros. | 168,550,000 | 168,550,000 | 4,375 | 38,525 |
2 | Transformers: Dark Of The Moon | Paramount | 21,250,000 | 302,800,252 | 3,917 | 5,425 |
3 | Horrible Bosses | Warner Bros. | 17,630,000 | 60,002,139 | 3,134 | 5,625 |
4 | Zookeeper | Sony | 12,300,000 | 42,352,466 | 3,482 | 3,532 |
5 | Cars 2 | Disney | 8,344,000 | 165,326,225 | 3,249 | 2,568 |
6 | Winnie The Pooh | Disney | 8,000,000 | 8,000,000 | 2,405 | 3,326 |
7 | Bad Teacher | Sony | 5,200,000 | 88,505,192 | 2,659 | 1,955 |
8 | Larry Crowne | Universal | 2,572,875 | 31,627,885 | 2,287 | 1,125 |
9 | Super 8 | Paramount | 1,925,000 | 122,241,982 | 1,459 | 1,319 |
10 | Midnight in Paris | Sony Pictures Classics | 1,890,585 | 41,792,695 | 706 | 2,677 |
11 | Bridesmaids | Universal | 1,682,960 | 161,290,335 | 872 | 1,930 |
12 | Mr. Popper’s Penguins | 20th Century Fox | 1,350,000 | 61,454,661 | 1,002 | 1,347 |