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Date Posted: 22:20:12 11/28/01 Wed
The magic was still working for Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone.
The wizard tale remained number one at the box office for a second weekend, conjuring up $82.4 million as turkey-stuffed Muggles flocked to theaters over the five-day holiday weekend, according to final studio figures Monday.
About $57.5 million of that came between Friday and Sunday, a dropoff of 36 percent from the film's high-flying, record-busting opening weekend. Nevertheless, those totals snatched the Thanksgiving weekend records away from Toy Story 2, which snagged $57.4 million over the three-day period and $80.1 million over the five-day holiday in 1999.
So far, the Warners fantasy about Harry and his Hogwarts chums has grossed nearly $187 million in 10 days. It still has an outside chance at beating or tying the fastest to $200 million record set in 13 days in 1999 by Jar Jar and his cohorts in Star Wars: Episode I--The Phantom Menace.
Harry Potter also led all wide-release films in terms of per-screen average, hauling in $15,656 at 3,672 screens.
Meanwhile, Monsters, Inc. keeps scaring up big numbers. Sulley and his fellow freaks slinked into 188 more theaters in their fourth week and actually saw their gross go up by 6 percent. The 'toon averaged $6,592 at 3,649 theaters to earn $24.1 million between Friday and Sunday ($33 million for the five-day tally). The Disney release has now grossed about $192.3 million.
The success of these kiddie flicks left little space for adult- and teen-targeted newcomers.
The old hunk-young hunk teaming of Robert Redford and Brad Pitt in the espionage thriller Spy Game was attractive enough for third place. Opening Wednesday at 2,770 sites the R-rated Universal release captured a solid if not spectacular $21.7 million over the three-day weekend ($30.6 over the five-day holiday) with a per-screen average of $7,830. It marked the biggest opening in Redford's career and second-biggest for Pitt (behind Interview with a Vampire's $36.4 million in 1994).
Also opening Wednesday was Black Knight, the stumble-back-in-time farce starring Martin Lawrence. The PG-13-rated Fox film only managed a fourth-place showing, averaging $4,319 at 2,571 theaters to gross $11.1 million for the weekend ($15.4 million over the five-day run).
The snowboarding flick Out Cold also schussed in Wednesday, but the PG-13-rated Buena Vista teen comedy took a powder. In the seventh slot, with a $2,253 average at 2,001 sites, its weekend gross was only $4.5 million ($6.7 million for the five-day period).
In very limited release, Miramax's In the Bedroom, a domestic drama starring Sissy Spacek, opened Friday to a cozy per-screen average of $23,493 at just four theaters, wrapping up a Friday-Sunday gross of $94,000.
Sidewalks of New York, Ed Burns' interwoven romance, strolled into 99 sites on Wednesday, averaging a solid $5,506 for a five-day tally of $678,000.
Overall, there was no Thanksgiving weekend record. The top 12 movies' combined gross of $143 million didn't match the 1999 record and was down 15 percent from the $167.2 million haul over the same weekend last year, when Dr. Seuss' How the Grinch Stole Christmas was on the loose for a second weekend. It was also down 6.6 percent from last weekend's Potter-powered bonanza of $152 million.
Source from E! Online
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