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...world all the entertainment it needed this weekend. While 59-year-old, self-proclaimed "geezer" golfer Tom Watson mounted a heroic effort to win the British Open, only to fall short in a four-hole playoff against a much younger rival, that great gray sorcerer Albus Dumbledore led Harry Potter to the biggest opening for any film in the series. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince will have taken in nearly $80 million in its Friday-to-Sunday session and about twice that in its first five days. That's not exactly magic of unprecedented immensity...
...finishing order this weekend - Harry Potter 6 Ice Age 3 Transformers 2 - might seem like the score of a three-team intergalactic Quidditch match, but it's really a demonstration of the power of sequels. The sixth installment of the Potter series has already earned more than $200 million worldwide - probably way, way more, since the week's final international figures won't come out until later on Monday, and the franchise has typically earned nearly 70% of its theatrical coin abroad. The third Ice Age cartoon, Dawn of the Dinosaurs, which has also enjoyed a foreign take...
...Angeles Times points out that Half-Blood Prince cost nearly $400 million to make and market. And the studio, Warner Bros., has to share the HP6 revenue with the theaters showing it. But then comes the real money, from DVD and other home-entertainment streams. Everyone connected with the Potter franchise will get very rich; it's the potion that keeps on producing. (See pictures of Daniel Radcliffe...
Here are the studios' official weekend estimates for the top 10 movies, as reported by Box Office Mojo: 1. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince, $79.4 million; $159.7 million, five days 2. Ice Age: Dawn of the Dinosaurs, $17.7 million; $152 million, third week 3. Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen, $13.8 million; $363.9 million, fourth week 4. Brüno, $8.4 million; $49.6 million, second week 5. The Hangover, $8.3 million; $235.9 million, seventh week 6. The Proposal, $8.3 million; $128.1 million, fifth week 7. Public Enemies, $7.6 million; $79.5 million, third week 8. Up, $3.1 million; $279.6 million...
Visit RottenTomatoes.com to read an interview with Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince director David Yates...