Harry Potter Makes History

Weekend Box Office (Estimates)

July 15-17, 2011

#1. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, Part 2
Weekend Gross/Total Gross
($168,550,000 // Debut)

#2. Transformers: Dark of the Moon
($21,250,000 // $302,800,000)

#3. Horrible Bosses
($17,630,000 // $60,002,000)

#4. Zookeper
($12,300,000 // $42,352,000)

#5. Cars 2

($8,334,000 // $165,326,000)

Working its final movie mojo, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part 2 soared into the record books with the highest-grossing opening weekend ever. The series finale drew an estimated $168.55 million, dethroning The Dark Knight's $158.4 million.

How big was Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part 2's opening day?

Record-shattering gigantic.

And, despite the film's tag line, it does not all end here.

Deathly Hallows Part 2 grossed an estimated $92.1 million Friday, Warner Bros. said.

The take was nearly as big as the year's biggest three-day weekend to date, and $20 million bigger than the opening-day record held by the Twilight franchise's New Moon.

Not only did it eclipse the midnight record held by Eclipse, but it was also Hollywood's largest-ever single-day gross, blowing away, among others, New Moon, Eclipse and The Dark Knight.

Speaking of Batman…

The box-office tracking firm Exhibitor Relations today guestimated the final Harry Potter will smash The Dark Knight's three-year-old opening-weekend record with a $175 million Friday-Sunday domestic haul.

So, to recap: Opening-day record; single-day record; opening-weekend record (probably).

Movies [ Weekend Box Office]

Weekend Box Office (Estimates)

March 18-20, 2011

#1. Limitless
Weekend Gross/Total Gross
($19,000,000 // Debut)

#2. Rango
($15,315,000 // $92,577,000)

#3. Battle Los Angeles
($14,600,000 // $60,602,000)

#4. The Lincoln Lawyer
($13,400,000 // Debut)

#5. Paul

($13,155,000 // Debut)

Weekend Box Office

Weekend Box Office
February 18-20, 2011

#1. Unknown
Weekend Gross/Total Gross
($21,770,000 // Debut)

#2. I Am Number Four
($19,500,000 // Debut)

#3. Gnomeo & Juliet
($19,400,000 // $50,421,000)

#4. Just Go With It
($18,200,000 // $60,756,000)

#5. Big Momma's: Like Father, Like Son

($17,000,000 // Debut)

Movies [ Weekend Box Office]

Weekend Box Office (Estimates)

January 28-30, 2011

#1. The Rite
Weekend Gross/Total Gross
($15,005,000 // Debut)

#2. No Strings Attached
($13,650,000 // $39,742,000)

#3. The Mechanic
($11,500,000 // Debut)

#4. The Green Hornet
($11,500,000 // $78,800,000)

#5. The King's Speech

($11,102,000 // $72,217,000)