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If you were expecting Bruno or any other movie to beat out ‘Harry Potter and the Half Blood Price’ for the number one spot in the box, you will be disspointed.

Harry Potter and gang brought in a 3 day total of $79.4 million, 5 day total of $159.6 million, and a 5 day worldwide total of $205.5 million.

If you compare this opening to that of Order of the Phoenix, Half Blood Prince beats the 3 day opening by 2.5 million and the 5 day opening by $20 million!!

Elsewhere in the box office, ‘Bruno’ fell to #4 with $8.4 million dropping 72% from last week.  ‘Ice Age’ once again held onto $2 with $17.7 million and ‘Transformers’ held on to #3 with $13.8 million.

This weekends other new opener ‘500 days of Summer’ which opened in limited release debuted at #12 with $838,000.

Weekends top 10

1. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince, $79.5 million
2. Ice Age: Dawn of the Dinosaurs, $17.7 million
3. Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen, $13.8 million
4. Brüno, $8.4 million
5. The Hangover, $8.3 million
6. The Proposal, $8.29 million
7. Public Enemies, $7.6 million
8. Up, $3.1 million
9. My Sister’s Keeper, $2.8 million
10. I Love You, Beth Cooper, $2.7 million

New releases for July 24th are the animated ‘G-Force’, the horror/thriller ‘The Orphan’ and the romantic comedy ‘ The Ugly Truth’.

‘Harry Potter and the Half Blood Prince’ seems to be taking over the Box Office World.

The 6th film in the Harry Potter Franchise managed to pull in $22.2 million in midnight sales, had a $58.1 million dollor domestic opening day, and now the worldwide totals are in.

The movie has manged to pull in a total of $104 million dollars worldwide ($58.1 domestic + $45.8 foreign) in its first 24hrs.  That is an all time best for the Harry Potter series.

In order for Harry Potter to beat ‘Transfomers: Revenge of the Fallen’, it will need to bring in around $109 million domestic this weekend.

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With only 12hrs and 30mins into its first day of release, ‘Harry Potter and the Half Blood Prince’ has already broken and set a new record for midnight showing sales.

Warner Bro’s reported this morning that midight showing of the 6th Harry Potter film grossed around $22.2 million dollars.  Beating out Batmans ‘The Dark Knight’ from last summer!!

Say it with me now Holy SH**T!!!

I guess Warner Bro’s plan of pushing back the film by 11 months worked!!!

‘The Dark Night’ held the old record at $18 million, meaning Harry Potter beat them by $4 millon dollars!!

Based of those number alone, I’m going to go ahead and say that ‘Harry Potter and the Half Blood Prince’ will also reclaim its title for hight grossing middle of the week opener, for which the latest Transformers movie stole 3 weeks ago.

Check back for more Box Office news as it comes in!!!

Yep, Sacha Baron Cohen manged to take down both ‘Ice Age 3′ and ‘Transformers’ to become the #1 movie this weekend.  ‘Bruno’ brought in $30.4 million dollars, which also beats Cohen’s ‘Borat’ which in 2006 brought in $26.4 million its opening day.

‘Ice Age 3′ remained at #2 with $28.5 million, while Optimus and company’s ‘Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen’ fell to #3 with $24.2, bringings its grossing total to $339,208,000 still making it the top grossing film of 2009.

This weekends other newbie ‘I Love You Beth Cooper’ showed up at #7 with $5 million, which I belive makes it one of the lowest grossing summer movies this year, beating out ‘Land of the Lost’ which had opened at #3 with $18 million.

Weekend’s Top 10:

1 Bruno – $30,426,000
2 Ice Age: Dawn of the Dinosaurs – $28,500,000
3 Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen – $24,200,000
4 Public Enemies – $14,111,000
5 The Proposal – $10,507,000
6 The Hangover – $9,930,000
7 I Love You Beth Cooper – $5,000,000
8 Up – $4,656,000
9 My Sister’s Keeper – $4,180,000
10 The Taking of Pelham 1 2 3 – $1,600,000

This week we have the highly anticipated ‘Harry Potter and the Half Blood Prince’ out on July 15th.  Also, out on July 17th is the indie comdey ‘500 Days of Summer’.

Check back later this week for all the Harry Potter box office totals.

The actuals are in and once again Optimus Prime and the gang dominated the top of the box office.

According to Hollywood.com ‘Transformers’ raked in $42.4 million over the 3-day period while ‘Ice Age 3′ brought in $41.6.