As we get closer to Thanksgiving, we’re starting to get the big holiday movies and this weekend’s offering is a doozy, being the seventh chapter of one of the most successful film franchises of all time, as Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows – Part 1 (Warner Bros.) brings back all the popular trio of Daniel Radcliffe, Emma Watson and Rupert Grint and many of the fan favorites who have been keeping the series together since the first movie nine years ago. With many Thursday midnight shows already sold out, we can probably expect a huge opening day, though probably making less than the last movie, which opened during the summer. Either way, without having a Wednesday opening cutting into the weekend, “Deathly Hallows – Part 1″ will be looking at the opening for The Twilight Saga: New Moon as a goal, but probably will fall just short, still ending among the Top 10 openings and be the biggest opening weekend for the series so far. This weekend last year saw the release of another anticipated sequel as The Twilight Saga: New Moon (Summit) starring Kristen Stewart, Robert Pattinson and Taylor Lautner exploded into theaters with $142.8 million, becoming the third-biggest opening movie of all time and making it evident that the previous year’s “Twilight” phenomenon was no flash in the pan. Even with such a big blockbuster opening against it, Sandra Bullock’s true-life football drama The Blind Side (Warner Bros.) lived up to its name by becoming her second movie of the year to open with more than $30 million, taking second with $34.1 million in 3,110 theaters, an astounding debut indeed; the movie would go on to make $256 million, be nominated for Best Picture and Bullock would win her first Oscar. Roland Emmerich’s disaster movie 2012 dropped to third with $26.4 million and the low-profile animated film Planet 51 (Sony/TriStar Pictures) opened in fourth place with $12.3 million, just beating out Disney’s A Christmas Carol. The Top 10 grossed–you might want to sit down for this one–$246.9 MILLION (!), which seems rather unrealistic for this weekend unless Harry Potter does $20 million more than we’re predicting.
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via twilightish.com
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