Captain America Breaks Harry Potter's Spell at the Box Office
Chris Evans
Captain America: The First Avenger ousted Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2 as the top grossing film at this weekend's box office.
The film, which stars Chris Evans, raked in $65.8 million, according to Box Office Mojo. This makes the Paramount and Marvel Studios movie the summer's top superhero box office debut.
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Falling a whopping 72 percent was the final Harry Potter installment with $48.1 million. The film has made $272.4 million in just two weeks.
Coming in third place was the romantic comedy Friends with Benefits starring Justin Timberlake and Mila Kunis. The movie grossed $18.5 million in its debut outing.
Transformers: Dark of the Moon was the No. 4 film of the weekend making $12 million. The ensemble comedy Horrible Bosses came in right behind it with $11.7 million.
Zookeeper and Cars 2 were in the No. 6 and 7 spots with $8.7 million and $5.7 million, respectively.
Rounding out the top 10: Winnie the Pooh (No. 8, $5.1 million), Bad Teacher (No. 9, $2.6 million) and Midnight in Paris (No. 10, $1.9 million).