Harry's Potter of Gold Reaches $140 Million
Daniel Radcliffe in Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix courtesy Warner Bros.
Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix
topped the weekend box office with a $77.4 million haul, bringing its five-day total to a cool $140 mil. The previous
Potter pics enjoyed $88.4 to $102.7 mil opening weekends, but first hit theaters on Friday, so... apples, oranges.
Rounding out the top five were
Transformers ($36 mil, $223 mil to date),
Ratatouille ($18 mil),
Live Free or Die Hard ($10.9 mil) and
License to Wed ($7.4 mil). Elisha Cuthbert's
Captivity, the weekend's only other new wide release, debuted at No. 12 with $1.55 mil (aka
Harry Potter's wand budget).
