“Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2″ makes record-setting $43.5 million at midnight screenings
With 3,800 locations screening “Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2″ at midnight Thursday, the eighth and last movie based on J.K. Rowling’s beloved books netted $43.5 million in its first three hours of release.
The midnight haul for “Deathly Hallows: Part 2″ crushed the previous record held by “The Twilight Saga: Eclipse,” which recorded $30 million in midnight earnings in 2010, reports my intrepid colleague Adam Kemp.
With the movie’s opening-weekend projections are aimed at $150 million. But it will be interesting to see if “Deathly Hallows: Part 2” can challenge for the record for all-time best opening weekend. “The Dark Knight,” starring Christian Bale, the late Heath Ledger and “Harry Potter” actor Gary Oldman, rocketed to $158 million the weekend of July 18, 2008.
Read more of Adam’s story on the huge buzz surrounding “Deathly Hallows: Part 2″ by clicking here.
-BAM
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