Box Office Watch: Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince Continues Success on International Front
HBP Film
Posted by: sue
August 31, 2009, 11:47 AM
For those keeping track at home, we have a quick update today regarding box office success for Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince. While faring well here in the US, the sixth installment in the Harry Potter series continues to have very impressive box office sum totals due to international showings. ScreenDaily reports:
"Harry Potter And The Half-Blood Prince became the third
biggest film in the series worldwide after adding $7.7m from 5,000
screens in 61 markets through Warner Bros Pictures International (WBPI)
for $610.5m overseas and $904.9m globally. Greece was the final territory to receive the sixth episode in the
family franchise and delivered an excellent $1.9m from 135 screens that
was a clear number one and scored the biggest launch of the year.
Latest figures put Harry Potter And The Half-Blood Prince
on $80.8m in the UK, $79.4m in Japan, $60.9m in Germany, $51.6m in
France, $31.7m in Australia, $27m in Italy, $24.1m in China, $21.4m in
Mexico, $19.6m in Spain, $18.6m in Brazil, and $18.4m in Russia."
You can also see slightly different numbers here (international here) from Box Office Mojo.
75 Comments
8876 Points
HBP is doing so well in the box office. Although there were some differences from the book, I liked this better than the two previous HP movies. By all the records that HBP has broken it would seem it has been a popular movie with the fans yay
2570 Points
will be 1 of series
209 Points
third comment!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! and the article is great!!!!! well done
2570 Points
till hp 7 part 1 and 2 lol
3048 Points
It is wonderful that the movie is achieving such great financial success and that Warner Brothers has benefited so from investing in such a fantastic film! I do hope that the film goes over the one billion mark, but that seems unlikely.
79377 Points
How nice for WB…
67 Points
Prince has not broken any box office records. It is doing well, especially for a 5th sequel, but not spectacularly well. It will end up with the 5th most tickets sold in the US (all the films but Prisoner would have made $300 million at 2009 ticket prices). Prince basically is selling about 95% of the tickets that Order sold in Europe, too: again, really good for a sequel, but hardly record breaking.
660 Points
Looks like WBs decision to move HBP to 2009 should meet its financial expectations. ;)
77 Points
I’ve seen it 3 times. How many times have you all seen it???
887 Points
I liked the movie, but I liked the book better
Wimsey, what is your basis for the “95%” figure for European tickets?
21478 Points
so cool!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
4208 Points
I have only seen it once, but will see it again as soon as I can. I enjoyed the movie, even though the ending seemed a bit flat. I’d like to view it again to see what i missed the first time around.
240 Points
I went for my third time last Friday. There were only 10 people in the theater including me and my friend. They are down to three showings a day. I think it will be out of my local theater her in the Tampa Bay (FL) area in 2-3 weeks Some of the smaller theaters (14 screens or less) have already pulled it :(
272 Points
Argh! so much money, i cant even comprehend that amount of money. On all three occasions that i went the cinema was packed full, probably the fullest ive ever seen it.
HBP is doing so well in the box office. Although there were some differences from the book, I liked this better than the two previous HP movies. By all the records that HBP has broken it would seem it has been a popular movie with the fans yay