Warner Bros. Pictures’ “Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows – Part 1” soared to the top of the global box office in its opening weekend, earning a staggering $330.1 million dollars worldwide, encompassing $125.1 million domestically and $205 million internationally. The announcement was made jointly today by Dan Fellman, President of Domestic Distribution, and Veronika Kwan-Rubinek, President of International Distribution, Warner Bros. Pictures.
The domestic box office numbers shattered the franchise’s previous opening weekend record—held by “Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire” at $102.6 million—surpassing it by an astounding 23%.
The Top-12 grossing motion pictures for the weekend, per data collected as of Sunday, November 21, 2010 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 I | Warner Bros. | 125,120,000 | 125,120,000 | 4,125 | 30,332 |
2 | Megamind | Paramount | 16,175,000 | 109,475,598 | 3,779 | 4,280 |
3 | Unstoppable | 20th Century Fox | 13,100,000 | 41,961,914 | 3,209 | 4,082 |
4 | Due Date | Warner Bros. | 9,150,000 | 72,669,412 | 3,229 | 2,833 |
5 | Next Three Days, The | Lionsgate | 6,750,000 | 6,750,000 | 2,564 | 2,632 |
6 | Morning Glory | Paramount | 5,233,000 | 19,855,903 | 2,544 | 2,056 |
7 | Skyline | Universal | 3,430,770 | 17,642,545 | 2,883 | 1,190 |
8 | Red | Summit Entertainment | 2,467,000 | 83,573,922 | 2,034 | 1,212 |
9 | For Colored Girls | Lionsgate | 2,400,000 | 34,539,697 | 1,216 | 1,973 |
10 | Fair Game | Summit Entertainment | 1,470,000 | 3,738,727 | 386 | 3,808 |
11 | Secretariat | Disney | 962,000 | 56,368,594 | 1,010 | 952 |
12 | Paranormal Activity 2 | Paramount | 926,000 | 83,563,770 | 1,101 | 841 |