Potter is magic at the box office

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Warner Bros.’ “Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix” scored the biggest Wednesday opening of all time and the fifth largest in movie history for any day of the week, with an estimated take of $44.2 million from 4,181 locations.Harry Potter is doing what everyone knew it would. It’s raking in the big bucks. I believe it’s probably the hottest movie property of all time now and as usual, the fans are shelling out the cash to see The Order of the Phoenix.

Combined with an impressive opening foreign take of $29.9 million, the bespectacled boy wizard is whipping up magic for Warner. In France, pic opened at $5.9 million, the second highest opening day of all time in that market.

Stateside, the film goes into 4,285 theaters today, the highest theater count on the books after this summer’s “Pirates of the Caribbean: At World’s End,” which bowed in 4,362 locations.

Moving into its second frame, DreamWorks and Paramount’s “Transfomers” is likely to look a little tarnished in the shadow of “Phoenix,” although with a seven-day opening of $155.2 million, “Transformers” is in more than fine shape.

Variety

I’m sure like all the other fans I’ll go see the movie, but I’m NOT going to be wearing stupid glasses like some of those fools. They better not mess with me either or I’ll poke those little buggers with my wand.

Here’s a nice school photo of Harry Potter’s class.

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