Box Office Mojo is reporting the Transformers film has crossed the $700 million mark as of this point worldwide. The US gross is over $339 million and the foreign take so far exceeds $364 million.
This weekend marks the release of Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince, however, and it’s almost certainly going to take the number one slot this weekend. Last weekend Transformers took third place behind Bruno and Ice Age: Dawn of the Dinosaurs.
Waverider
According to the Associated Press:
LOS ANGELES – Harry Potter has returned with some princely returns at the box office. The new big-screen adventure "Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince" took in $79.5 million domestically over opening weekend and $159.7 million since debuting last Wednesday.
That's the second-highest start ever for a movie premiering on Wednesday, trailing the $200 million five-day opening for last month's "Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen."
The sixth movie about the young wizard came in $20 million ahead of the last movie, "Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix," which grossed $139.7 million in its first five days two years ago.
bumblebot98
the actor is 18 right now.
Necrocom4
i dunno. she was like 12 in the first film so shes gotta be like 17 right?
ChrisIzDaShiz
How old is she again………I'M JUST SAYIN…..
ChrisIzDaShiz
Wait till they add Wreck-gar!!
ManiactoaLaco
This. SOoo much.
GO ROTF!
MTL
Necrocom4
you know this thread sounds like the exact same arguement i have with a guy at work. hes got 2 kids. both harry potter fans. he says they want to see both movies but harry potter is the first. he picks on me about it. i saw the first 3 harry potter movies. 1 in theatres. cant remember which. the only one i thought was halfway decent was the 3rd one. ultimately though i told him the only time id go see a midnight showing of harry potter was if i heard hermione was showing off the twins.
ChrisIzDaShiz
TF is not only SMASHING box office records worldwide, but increasing the value of all or TF toys!! Yaaayy~
ntsan
$26,830,000 for Harry vs $36,740,666 for ROTF on 1st friday, HP6 definitely won't beat ROTF in America.
Sound Blaster
Who cares? It still is NOT going to beat ROTF..
wolfe
Where do you see that? According to mojo it hasnt even hit 150 yet worldwide and its been out here for more than 2 days. It'll have beat 200 after the weekend, i'm sure.
Sol Fury
The real landmark for RotF is the $750 million. Once it gets to that, it has truly equaled the profit margin of the first movie (as it cost an extra $50 million to make). Shouldn't be long now. In fact, it'll almost certainly be there by tomorrow.
ThinkTank Customs
and HP the little magician beats 200 million in only 2 days….
Lock Cade
Awesome!
guard convoy
$733,174,657 worldwide now, and $350,116,636 domestically
it has offically surpassed the first movie world wide and domestically
SkywarpSion
Never!!! Domestic HP will never surpass ROTF, the only HP that managed to do more than 300mio$ was Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone, and that was 2mio$ below TF1. The other HP never reached the magic 300mio$ again. And ROTF made more than 350mio$ and maybe it can reach the 400mio$.
But international the HP movies are very strong, way stronger than TF. Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone made nearly 1billion$ , phoenix made 940mio$. Only azkaban made less than 800mio$.
Beastbot X
That's still pretty close. If Harry Potter even has slightly more staying power in the theaters than ROTF, it could surpass it.
ntsan
And only 22 million on Thursday compare to 29 million thursday for ROTF
moreprimeland
Way to go ROTF!! Kick butt!!
I used my $10 off coupon from buying ROTF game and went to see it in IMAX b4 HP came out, so I'm still adding $$$$ to the overall intake!! And I will probably go back to see it 1 more X in the reg. theater.
Swoop Dogg
But do you know that Harry only made 58 million compared to ROTF's 62 million for the Wednesday opening day?