'Potter' premieres with &#36;77.1 million
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"Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix" enchanted moviegoers with a $77.1 million opening weekend, raising its total since debuting last Wednesday to $139.7 million.
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"National Treasure" continued to strike box-office gold, taking in &#36;33.1 million from Friday to Sunday to retain the No. 1 slot over the busy Thanksgiving weekend.
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LOS ANGELES  - "Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix" mopped up on the international circuit for the second consecutive weekend, towering over the competition with an estimated box office of $100.8 million from more than 13,000 screens in 58 markets.
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Movie-goers showed that they weren't afraid of the "Boogeyman," pushing the horror flick to the top of the weekend box office with a &#36;19.5 million debut.
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"Bridget Jones: The Edge Of Reason" was the No. 1 film at the international box office over the weekend with an estimated haul of &#36;26.7 million.
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The new &quot;Harry Potter&quot; movie drew  lukewarm reviews on Tuesday heading into its global debut, but  millions of &quot;muggles&quot; are expected to ignore the critics and  turn out in droves, box office watchers said.
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&quot;The Da Vinci Code&quot; banked an estimated &#36;29 million at the box office on its first day in theaters, an industry official said Saturday, positioning the film to turn in the strongest opening weekend for any movie this year.
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A first edition of the debut Harry Potter novel by J.K. Rowling is expected to sell for up to 7,000 pounds at an auction on June 26.
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The dragon fantasy  "Eragon" sold an estimated $30.3 million worth of tickets  during its first weekend of foreign release, propelling the  youth-slanted adventure to the No. 1 slot overseas.
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Jim Carrey movie Lemony Snicket: A Series of Unfortunate Events is top of the UK box office chart this week. It took more than Â£2m in its first three days of opening, said film trade magazine Screen International.
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The final book in the Harry Potter series sold a record 8.3 million copies in its first 24 hours on sale in the U.S.
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Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix crowns the 2007 box office in the UK and Ireland.
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Sony Pictures Entertainment's movie ticket sales reached $1.577 billion at domestic box offices in 2006, beating an industry record of $1.573 billion set by the studio in 2002, a company spokesman said on Monday.
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The animated comedy took in $31.7 million to hold the No. 1 spot for a second straight weekend. Billy Bob Thornton&#39;s &quot;Friday Night Lights&quot; opened in second place with $20.
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&quot;Lemony Snicket&#39;s A Series of Unfortunate Events&quot; debuted with a sweet $30.1 million to take first place at the box office on the weekend before Christmas.
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The seventh and final volume in the Harry Potter series has become the fastest selling book in history, publishers said on Monday, with more than 11 million copies sold during the first 24 hours in three markets alone.
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Publisher Scholastic Corp. said on Wednesday it would release a record-breaking 12 million copies for the first U.S. printing of "Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows," which hits stores on July 21.