Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix makes $77.4 million debut
The fantasy sequel “Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix” produced by the Warner Bros. Company makes a $77.4 million debut leading the weekend box office with a total domestic gross up to $140 million since its Wednesday release.
In other 44 countries the fifth chapter of the movie series has also earned an extra $190.3 million. The previous weekend’s Number One movie “Transformers” with $36 million produced by the DreamWorks-Paramount glided to the second place, raising its total to $223 million.
“Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix”, the fifth chapter, is based on the novels written by J.K. Rowling about a teen wizard and his adventures during studying. In “Order of the Phoenix” Harry returns to Hogwarts for the fifth year of studying, realizing that Voldemort returns to his power and will be certainly contributing troubles to Harry. Although The Ministry of Magic insists on Dumbledore’s and Harry’s lunacy, he is still forced to entrust to a different force which turns out to be just as dangerous…
Besides, the previous four movies “The Philosopher’s Stone” 2001, “The Chamber of Secrets” 2002, “The Prisoner of Azkaban” 2004 and “The Goblet of Fire” 2005 each debuted on Friday had bigger first weekends, extended from $88.4 million to $102.7 million. Nevertheless, it was a right decision to release the movie on Wednesday.
“Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix” in first five days did more business than each of the first three flicks did in their first full week.
