Midnight showings of “Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows–Part Two” have already given the film $25 million in ticket sales, according to The Hollywood Reporter.
The film, which has already earned a whopping $43.6 million overseas, is more-than-over the $30 million dollar mark set by “The Twilight Saga: Eclipse,” making “Part Two” the highest-grossing midnight showing of all time.
The incredible part is that the $25 million is only around half of the reported sales; the film will be shown in 3,800 theaters, and the $25 million comes from only 1,400 of those theaters.
More than likely, the film will probably also become the highest-grossing domestic weekend release of all time, beating out “The Dark Knight,” who earned $158.4 million.
“Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows–Part Two” is the absolutely final part to the lucrative movie series starring Daniel Radcliffe, Emma Watson and Rupert Grint. In this final part, Harry (Radcliffe), Hermione (Watson) and Ron (Grint) have to find the rest of the Horcuxes–items that hold pieces of Voldemort’s (Ralph Fiennes) soul–and kill Voldemort.
The film, which also stars a bevy of England’s finest, including Tom Felton, Bonnie Wright, Helena Bonham Carter, Michael Gambon, John Hurt, Alan Rickman, Warwick Davis and Maggie Smith, comes out at 12:01 a.m. this Friday.
