Weekend Box Office: Rapunzel, Rapunzel let down your hair
A 60% drop from first weekend to second would generally spell disappointment, if not disaster, for a Hollywood blockbuster, but when that blockbuster is Harry Potter And The Deathly Hallows Part 1 and the figure is still enough to take first place on a holiday weekend, that failure starts to look conspicuously like success. Adding another $50.3 million to its coffers, Harry Potter 7.1 has grossed $220 million and counting in just two weeks, confirming the series’ longevity while suggesting an even bigger bonanza for Hello, Mary Lou: Harry Potter 7.2. It was just over $1 million enough to edge out Tangled, Disney’s latest princess movie, which enjoyed by far the strongest debut among openers with $49.1 million, and a slightly higher per screen average ($13,630 to Potter’s $12,205). The also-rans were all greeted with varying degrees of bad news, with the camp musical Burlesque faring best with $11.8 million for fourth, and the other two, Love And Other Drugs and Faster, opening weakly in sixth and seventh place, respectively, with $9.9 million and $8.7 million.