The Harry Potter and Deathly Hallows film beats its own box office record world wide with the whooping $168.6 million in U.S. and Canadian ticket sales over the opening weekend and nearly $476 million globally.
The finale of Harry Potter captured over $307 million in 59 countries since it opened last week. Another record includes that the weekend sales plus Wednesday and Thursday for some markets.
The eight films of Harry Potter series is all about from a young wizard boy who entered the world of Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry and found out the mystery of his parents deaths and pledged to battle the evil who keeps on haunting him. Until he become a young man and the evil Lord Voldemort is finally defeated.
The previous record for an international opening belongs to “Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides,” the fourth installment of the series released in May this year, which took in about $260 million outside North America in its debut.
With over $6.4 billion in global ticket sales,Harry Potter movie series is already the highest-grossing film franchise ever.
The large scale of viewers for the Harry Potter and Deathly Hallows part 2 shows that the audience is still enchanted by its story and its been a decade since the first movie release of Harry Potter.
Dan Fellman, head of domestic distribution for Warner Bros. said that it became a cultural event and as the young audiences stuck with the series as they grew up the audience expanded over the years. Felman also adds that the final global receipts could easily rich the rare $1 billion mark.
