Harry Potter breaking record sales. by Milota Sidorova

Harry Potter. There is something really interesting to realize. Few years ago, media reported that the author Joanne K. Rowling had problems to fulfill the contract with production company. For a while she expressed a disagreement or disappointment to finish Harry Potter saga. Well it's pretty hard to write seven books about one person, J.R.R Tolkien, a fantasy legend made it „only“ a trilogy. But Harry Potter survived and Rowling somehow found a strength to finish a serie. Now, the first of the last serie is entering cinemas. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, Part 1 earned $50.3 million over weekend and grabbed the first place at top ten most successful movies this autumn. We are not here to judge the content, but seen from economical perspective it is clear that Potter broke records. If fall 2009 was dominated by Twilight „New Moon“, this weekend it was Potter that earned $220.4 million in the U.S. and $389.2 million overseas just in 10 days. S! o using a simple mathematic, Potter transformed into a gold mine rising total amount of $609.6 million. The second in the list of most successful weekend movies in the U.S. was Disney cartoon musical about fairy-tale pricess called „Tangled“. Disney movie made $49.1 million in two weekend days. The third most successful movie was Megamind earning $12.9 million, followed by Christina Aguillera and Cher's song-and-dance tale „Burlesque“ that made $11.8 million. The top five was closed with Unstoppable action, drama, thriller casting Denzel Washinghton, Chris Pine and Rosario Dawson.

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by Milota Sidorova for Cantell TV (http://cantell.tv)

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