Despite mostly setting the table for the back half of a gargantuan two-part finale, Harry Potter And The Deathly Hollows Part 1 had the strongest opening weekend of any other entry in the series, taking an obscene $125.1 million (that’s around $30,300 per screen, also an absurd number for a wide release). That gross also counts as the sixth highest opening in box-office history, and helps to justify—financially if not creatively—the decision to split J.K. Rowling’s last book into two parts. With Harry Potter gobbling up most of the box-office pie, that left mere crumbs for the Russell Crowe thriller The Next Three Days, which took an anemic $6.75 million and opened all the way back in fifth place.