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Box-Office Benjamin$: Potter & Co. Dominate, But Not In Record-Breaking Fashion
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Another Potter flick another dollar. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince muggled out the competition this weekend by taking in a massive $158 million over five days, as it opened on a Wednesday instead of a Friday. It made $77.8 million from Friday-Sunday. The film has received stellar reviews across the board, as well as on The Movie Mash, although that didn’t go over well with some (cough) “Potter Purists.” So it seems as though Warner Bros. got their 2009 money-maker after the box-office debacles that were Watchmen and Terminator Salvation. While this is undoubtedly a complete and utter victory for WB and Potter fans, with such anticipation, it still was unable to beat Transformers 2 and The Dark Knight in the five-day race, by a significant margin.
GRADE: B
After 8 long months of waiting because Warner Bros. sucks, viewers and fans across the world finally got to see the sixth installment in the Potter movie series. The film opens as the WB shield of Warner Bros. quietly and eerily creeps its way into focus, perfectly giving a serious tone to this dark chapter in the Potter collection.
The movie cuts to Harry as the flash bulbs of the wizard paparazzi blaze in his face as he and Dumbledore are leaving the Ministry of Magic proceeding their battle with Voldemort and his Death Eaters at the end of The Order of the Phoenix.
I am sorry to anyone reading this who has not read the Potter books or seen the movies, but I am definitely not going to waste my time giving you a synopsis of the film. My only advice to you is to berate me in the comment section below, or go and read the books. Please…if you haven’t, READ THE BOOKS; they will change your life.
