{"id":17949,"date":"2011-07-25T08:00:11","date_gmt":"2011-07-25T15:00:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.highdefdigest.com\/blog\/?p=17949"},"modified":"2018-02-14T12:27:30","modified_gmt":"2018-02-14T20:27:30","slug":"boxoffice-jul-25-2011","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.highdefdigest.com\/blog\/boxoffice-jul-25-2011\/","title":{"rendered":"Weekend Box Office: ‘Potter’ Drastically Drops While ‘Cap’ Over-Performs"},"content":{"rendered":"

After last week’s record-setting opening<\/a>, ‘Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part 2’ dropped more than 71% in attendance. Over the entire weekend, ‘Potter’ barely nabbed $5 million more than what it earned from its initial midnight openings alone. Even so, with another $48 million in its second weekend, the ‘Potter’ finale has now grossed over $274 million domestically and is on track to become the franchise’s biggest winner.
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The latest Marvel superhero movie leading up to next summer’s ‘The Avengers’, ‘Captain America: The First Avenger<\/strong>‘ finished more than $5 million above expectations, with $65.8 million. Surprisingly, ‘Cap’ scored more in its first weekend than other summer superhero flicks ‘Thor<\/a>‘, ‘X-Men: First Class<\/a>‘ or ‘Green Lantern<\/a>‘. But the attached teasers for both ‘The Amazing Spider-Man’ and ‘The Avengers’ make it look like ‘Cap’ may not hold that record for long.<\/p>\n

Like I said in my review<\/a>, ‘Captain America’ plays out unlike other Marvel adaptations. Not only does it have a little something for everyone, it’s easily the best-written of them all to date. <\/p>\n

Underperforming this weekend was the R-rated romantic comedy ‘Friends with Benefits<\/strong>‘. Despite being the stronger and funnier of the two, ‘Friends’ opened even softer than January’s similar ‘No Strings Attached<\/a>‘. Check out my review<\/a> to find exactly why ‘Friends with Benefits’ is worthy of your time and money.<\/p>\n

Limited releases ‘Another Earth<\/strong>‘ and ‘A Little Help<\/strong>‘ opened on opposite ends of the spectrum. ‘Another Earth’ featured a strong $19,600 per-screen average (on 4 screens), while ‘A Little Help’ only wrangled $2,000 per screen (on 24 screens).<\/p>\n

Top 10:<\/h5>\n

1. ‘Captain America: The First Avenger’ (Paramount) – $65,827,000<\/p>\n

2. ‘Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2’ (Warner Bros.) – $48,065,000<\/p>\n

3. ‘Friends with Benefits’ (Screen Gems) – $18,500,000<\/p>\n

4. ‘Transformers: Dark of the Moon’ (Paramount\/DreamWorks) – $12,000,000<\/p>\n

5. ‘Horrible Bosses’ (Warner Bros.\/New Line) – $11,720,000<\/p>\n

6. ‘Zookeeper’ (Sony) – $8,700,000<\/p>\n

7. ‘Cars 2’ (Buena Vista) – $5,726,000<\/p>\n

8. ‘Winnie the Pooh’ (Buena Vista) – $5,141,000<\/p>\n

9. ‘Bad Teacher’ (Sony) – $2,600,000<\/p>\n

10. Midnight in Paris (Sony Pictures Classics) – $1,899,000<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

After last week’s record-setting opening, ‘Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part 2’ dropped more than 71% in attendance. Over the entire weekend, ‘Potter’ barely nabbed $5 million more than what it earned from its initial midnight openings alone. Even so, with another $48 million in its second weekend, the ‘Potter’ finale has now grossed…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":17951,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[139,743],"tags":[2212,178,564,3240,571],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.highdefdigest.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17949"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.highdefdigest.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.highdefdigest.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.highdefdigest.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.highdefdigest.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17949"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/www.highdefdigest.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17949\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19098,"href":"https:\/\/www.highdefdigest.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17949\/revisions\/19098"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.highdefdigest.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/17951"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.highdefdigest.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17949"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.highdefdigest.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17949"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.highdefdigest.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17949"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}