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'Potter' takes down Batman with $168.6M weekend
DAVID GERMAIN
(The Associated Press)



06:02:03PM (DST) Sunday,July 17,2011.

LOS ANGELES (AP) — The boy wizard has vanquished the dark knight and a band of pirates with a record-setting magic act at both the domestic and international box office.

Warner Bros. estimates that "Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2" took in $168.6 million domestically from Friday to Sunday. That beats the previous best opening weekend of $158.4 million, also held by Warner Bros. for 2008's Batman blockbuster "The Dark Knight."

Overseas, the film added $307 million in 59 countries since it began rolling out Wednesday, topping the previous best international debut of $260.4 million set in May by Disney's "Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides."

International results for "Deathly Hallows: Part 2" included record openings in Great Britain at $36.6 million and Australia at $26.7 million, according to Warner Bros.

Worldwide, "Deathly Hallows: Part 2" topped $475 million in a matter of days, putting it on course to become the franchise's first billion-dollar worldwide hit.

"This will be the biggest 'Harry Potter' by far," said Dan Fellman, head of domestic distribution at Warner Bros. "A billion dollars is definitely going to happen."

The current franchise high is $974.8 million worldwide for the first film, "Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone" 10 years ago.

1. "Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2," $168.6 million ($307 million international).

2. "Transformers: Dark of the Moon," $21.3 million ($39 million international).

3. "Horrible Bosses," $17.6 million.

4. "Zookeeper," $12.3 million.

5. "Cars 2," $8.3 million ($12.4 million international).

6. "Winnie the Pooh," $8 million.

7. "Bad Teacher," $5.2 million.

8. "Larry Crowne," $2.6 million.

9. "Super 8," $1.92 million.

10. "Midnight in Paris," $1.9 million.

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