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WB Gives Thanks for Potter's Magical Holiday Weekend
by Scott Weinberg | November 28, 2005
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Proving that not even a big handful of new releases can not keep a good wizard down, "Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire" continued its impressive box office ways, handily dominating the holiday box office and remaining #1 for a second consecutive weekend.

Seems like a whole bunch of people decided to take in Harry Potter's fourth adventure once all the turkey was tasted and the stuffing was stuffed. The resoundingly popular "Goblet of Fire" conjured up a $55 million 3-day weekend, which puts its total tally in the immediate neighborhood of $201 million ... in less than two weeks!

Second place went to the well-attended Johnny Cash biopic "Walk the Line," which added another $19.7 to its $54.7 million bankroll, thereby proving that, yes, grown-ups sometimes do go the movie without the tots in tow.

The most successful newcomer this past weekend was the family comedy "Yours, Mine and Ours," which made just about $17.5 from 3,200 theaters, while Disney's "Chicken Little" continued its impressive hold in the henhouse: It added another $12.4 million to its $118 million nest egg.

Rounding out the top 5 was the long-awaited movie version of Jonathan Larsen's "Rent," which sang for $10.7 million from 2,400 screens. (Throw Wednesday and Thursday into the equation and that's about $18 million in "Rent" money.)

Other new arrivals fared as either "not bad" or "downright painful." New Line's "Just Friends" pulled in $9.2 million from 2,500 theaters, which covers the "not bad." As for the "downright painful," we have Lion's Gate's "In the Mix," which made $4.5 million from 1,600 theaters, and Focus Features' "The Ice Harvest," which made $3.8 million from 1,500.

The upcoming weekend gives the current flicks a fair shot to battle it out, since the only new wide release is the Charlize Theron sci-fi action flick "Aeon Flux," a flick that seems unlikely to unseat Master Potter from his Money Throne.

For a closer look at the holiday numbers, stop by and poke around at the Rotten Tomatoes Box Office Page.

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inessalenin
inessalenin writes:
on Nov 28 2005 12:25 PM

[b]November is lucky release day for HP films[/b]
only Prisoner of Azkanban created lowest boxoffice in this series, cause it's summer vacation. Don't know Ootp would repeat the same?


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haelohm
haelohm writes:
on Nov 28 2005 12:44 PM

[b]Great[/b]
Im so happy this movie is doing well. Its on track to top the Sorcers Stone. As for Order of the Phoenix, I really hope david yates does it right and if he does, the movie should do fantastically. You should expect the summer movie to do better since everyone is off and go see it as much as they like. Lets hope they show up in droves!


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Bane Of Anubis
Bane Of Anubis writes:
on Nov 28 2005 01:02 PM

[b]Does it really matter[/b]
Summer, Winter, it doesn't matter much anymore... especially with the avid (rabid?) fan base.


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kidk
kidk writes:
on Nov 28 2005 01:28 PM

[b]grown up[/b]
I think that if the next one is pg-13 it would make the same or more. Becasue adults well want to see it


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lovelykeira
lovelykeira writes:
on Nov 28 2005 02:29 PM

I really liked both Harry Potter and Walk the Line. Just Friends was all right. I still want to see the Ice Harvest, and I'm looking forward to Aeon Flux.

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Roadhg67
Roadhg67 writes:
on Nov 28 2005 04:09 PM

I don't know if I believe that it will beat Sorcerer's Stone, just because it had a much more significant drop than the first movie... I doubt it will have the legs to beat it, most movies don't these days... but I sure hope it does, I think its the best of the series so far.

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foolofatook
foolofatook writes:
on Nov 28 2005 05:59 PM

If OotP is released during the summer, which it is expected to, look for it to follow a similar route as PoA did. While people may expect summer movies to do better in the fall, that's not always true. Summer films are generally front loaded, they open big but fade fast, which is what PoA did. So I don't expect anything different with OotP.

As for GoF topping SS/PS... I doubt it. It's beating the film in sales, but not in audiences. I think GoF will settle somewhere inbetween $280-$310mil.


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renny2077
renny2077 writes:
on Nov 28 2005 10:33 PM

Well, the reason GOB did great this year is because there wasn't any competition from any other studios. No fancy flick scheduled for November release. Peter Jackson's King Kong would have caused problems but its coming out only in December. Not to forget Chronicles of Narnia. But no one really knows anything about that movie except that its a Disney production and we all know Disney all too, especially the state they are in.
Warner Bros did a great job putting GOB for a November release rather than a summer. The movie was a welcome visual spectacle after Episode III.


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