Jul 16, 2011 by B. Alan Orange

Harry Potter and the Deathly Hollows - Part 2 Breaks Opening Day Record with $92.1 Million

The Deathly Hallows smashes box office records
The Deathly Hallows smashes box office records
It's confirmed. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows - Part 2 is a box office record destroying machine. The finale movie in this magical series, which finds Harry defeating Voldemort in an epic duel, took in a massive $92.1 million during its first Friday of release. That is the biggest single day gross of all-time.

Overseas, the film pulled in an additional $75 million, for a three-day-international total of $157.5 million. That makes Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows - Part 2's global total a mammoth, worldwide record breaking $249.6 million. Yeah, we'll be seeing a sequel or remake of some sort. That's inevitable with those kinds of numbers.

As of this moment, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows - Part 2 is set to break the planet-wide record of $394 million set by Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince in 2009. Here in the states, it is also expected to bust open the $158.4 million weekend record set by the beloved The Dark Knight in 2008.

As of now, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows - Part 2 is expected to pull in North of $175 million domestically by the time the smoke clears from the ruble of Hogwarts come Monday morning. Helping push those huge numbers home is the fact that this sequel is in a record number of theaters, playing on a record number of screens, and it also has the added financial bump up provided by 3D.

We'll have the final weekend box office total for you sometime tomorrow.

Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows - Part 2 was released July 15th, 2011 and stars Ralph Fiennes, Michael Gambon, Alan Rickman, Daniel Radcliffe, Rupert Grint, Emma Watson, Evanna Lynch, Domhnall Gleeson. The film is directed by David Yates.

The Dark Knight was released July 18th, 2008 and stars Christian Bale, Heath Ledger, Aaron Eckhart, Michael Caine, Maggie Gyllenhaal, Gary Oldman, Morgan Freeman, Monique Gabriela Curnen. The film is directed by Christopher Nolan.

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Comments (33)

  1. Dan

    Deserved, but what my buddy @ejk1 said.

    10 months agoby @dan1Flag

  2. SpaceCowboy

    By the way, how much was a 3D IMAX ticket for this movie?

    10 months agoby @SpaceCowboyFlag

  3. SpaceCowboy

    Not surprised. Let's see if it beats Avatar all togehter.

    10 months agoby @SpaceCowboyFlag

  4. Bawnian©-Dexeus

    @ejk1 I remember when all I had to pay was 5.50 and 5.35 for a combo snack

    11 months agoby @bawnian-dexeusFlag

  5. ROFLitschristian

    @Bagofsoup Lol oops.

    11 months agoby @ROFLitschristianFlag

  6. ejk1

    I seriously don't give a sh*t about these weekend totals "records." They're so damn skewed it's not even funny. Of course HP should beat TDK--Ticket prices have climbed since 2008. I saved money because I went to the 10 am showing of HP, but if I went at the same time I saw TDK (around 3 pm) I would have paid two dollars more for the HP ticket than the TDK ticket. And of course, matinee savings have also been crippled. Matinee now ends at noon; movie theaters used to stay at matinee until mid-afternoon. I remember in the eighties and nineties when I could see films for matinee prices until 5 or 6 pm. Theaters have done everything they can to make more and more money off of the audience. In 1997, tickets to Titanic averaged $4.97. In 1939, tickets to Gone With the Wind was what, 5 cents? So yeah, I don't give a f*ck about inflated records. It's no different than home run records by steroid users.

    11 months agoby @ejk1Flag

  7. Bagofsoup

    Just a thought, but you might consider editing out the massive spoiler right at the top of the article which states who wins the final battle of a series that people have been watching over a period of ten years and eight films and quite possibly had not yet read the last book, expecting that the cap on spoilers might possibly be longer than just 12 hours of a movie's release. After avoiding spoilers like this for several years now, I am thankful that I saw it at midnight... before the 12 hours spoiler cap was up.

    11 months agoby @BagofsoupFlag

  8. Damian Smith

    Avatar......What's Avatar? Go HP Go....What a brilliant movie best one I've seen ever and I'm not talking about JUST Harry Potter movies. I had tears in my eyes at several parts.

    11 months agoby @Damian-SmithFlag

  9. Moviedude21

    Just saw the movie this morning...It is definetly the best of all 8 movies. I could see prequels to this series based on his parents and all the other characters Harry met in each movie prior to this.

    11 months agoby @moviedude21Flag

  10. The Boondock Saint

    HOOOOOOLY SHIIIIIIT!

    11 months agoby @combatmadness360Flag

  11. CUPID

    I cant wait for the....REBOOT!

    11 months agoby @cupidFlag

  12. GL.TDK.TF.

    Who saw TDKR teaser! How freakin awsome was it!

    11 months agoby @GL-TDK-TFFlag

  13. Lord McLovin of MovieWeb

    3D ticket prices count 30% of every dollar it makes.

    11 months agoby @ghostmanFlag

  14. TheDude1

    @rojodiablo The only thing TDKR really needs is some more IMAX screens. I believe TDK only had about 75. If TDKR can have about 300 to 350 it may get close to 190 or so.

    11 months agoby @thedude1Flag

  15. RojoDiablo

    Until the next Batman flick comes out and it tries to demolish these numbers itself, though without the 3D numbers helping it, it won't be easy!

    11 months agoby @rojodiabloFlag

  16. Bane5000

    If any other francshise or film deserves to outdo TDK, to me, its Harry Potter

    11 months agoby @bane5000Flag

  17. Tha Phoenix

    *sips Martini and flips through HP's record-shattering receipts*

    11 months agoby @thaphoenixFlag

  18. The Narrator: The Better Man

    Damn...

    Anyways, I don't know ya'll. TDKR has a lot of hype to build for most of the common crowd, and while it'll make a sh*t ton of dough come opening day, I doubt even it's soon-to-be legendary viral marketing schemes can boost it's mainstream anticipation enough to topple these numbers.

    11 months agoby @narratorFlag

  19. TheDude1

    @insertusernamehere Without the 3D it would not break TDK's record. I read somewhere that of the 43.5 million midnight showings it was 25 million for 3D.

    11 months agoby @thedude1Flag

  20. moviegeek

    I'm predicting $188 for the weekend.

    11 months agoby @moviegeekFlag

  21. moviegeek

    I contributed :) These numbers are obscene! It's about time we saw some records broken! :D

    11 months agoby @moviegeekFlag

  22. Lord McLovin of MovieWeb

    Just came back from seeing HP and my god, is it ever so brilliant!

    11 months agoby @ghostmanFlag

  23. T.Clark

    @david-dvd-1988 It would still be huge and would still beat TDK's record.

    11 months agoby @insertusernamehereFlag

  24. ROFLitschristian

    @david-dvd-1988 I heard not a lot of people are buying 3D tickets but yeah, I'd like to see the boost.

    11 months agoby @ROFLitschristianFlag

  25. David-Dvd-1988

    i'd love to know how much its total would be without the help of 3D bet it wouldnt be near TDKs record

    11 months agoby @david-dvd-1988Flag

  26. ROFLitschristian

    @thedude-abides Haha right?

    11 months agoby @ROFLitschristianFlag

  27. ROFLitschristian

    That's absolutely incredible! However, since I'm not psychic, can Captain A. dethrone HP next week? At this rate I would expect it to beat TDK's record, but there's usually a 40 -60% drop in the second week right?

    11 months agoby @ROFLitschristianFlag

  28. MovieWiz001

    AWESOME!!

    11 months agoby @moviewiz001Flag

  29. Bawnian©-Dexeus

    I'm glad for it

    11 months agoby @bawnian-dexeusFlag

  30. Bawnian©-Dexeus

    @thedude-abides LOL

    11 months agoby @bawnian-dexeusFlag

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