It was expected to be phenomenal. And the first part of the epic finale of the Harry Potter series has pretty much lived up to the expectations. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 1, with all its wizardry and witchcraft, stole the limelight and had the best opening weekend of the franchise with $125 million at the US box office, better than the $103 million that had been collected by Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire. Add to that another $200 million odd earned worldwide, and the first 3 days of the Harry Potter saga have been a whoop! But as is with such movies, the fall in revenues could be steep in the coming weekends and it is tough to know whether it would reach the elusive collection figure of $1 billion worldwide, the figure that has not yet been graced by any Harry Potter movie. With the audience having only one movie in mind during the weekend, the collections for the others were bound to be affected. Megamind claimed second spot and became the twentieth movie released in this year to achieve the milestone of reaching $100 million at the US box office. But it still remains way behind the money churned in by other Dreamworks movies of the year, How to Train Your Dragon and Shrek Forever After, both of which have hit the $200 million mark. Russell Crowe’s The Next Three Days had a lackluster beginning with only $7 million in the opening weekend. The doom that must fall to any movie that dares to pit itself against the magic of Harry Potter and his friends! Next weekend it will be another movie daring to do the same when Disney release their new take on the old fairy tale of Rapunzel in Tangled. As the year is coming to a close, the weekend battles get hotter and next up is… Tangled v/s Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 1! How much money will be spent this time round... only a few days to go...
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