Harry Potter And The Deathly Hallows Part 2 Breaks $1 Billion Milestone

In a very short period of time Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2 has managed to surpass the $1 billion box office mark while taking the number 8 all-time box office spot that was previously occupied by The Dark Night.

The move into the billion dollar club also makes the final Harry Potter film the only one of the eight movies in the franchise to pass that bit milestone mark.

The movie has some hot competition on their hands this year with Transformers: Dark of the Moon already earning $983 million.

Here’s the list of the top 10 earning Hollywood movies of all time:

Avatar ($2.8 billion)

Titanic ( $ 1.8 billion)

The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King ($1.11 billion)

Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man’s Chest ($1.07 billion)

Toy Story 3 ($1.06 billion)

Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides ($1.03 billion)

Alice in Wonderland ($1.02 billion)

Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part 2 ($1.01 billion)

The Dark Knight ($1.00 billion)

If Potter mania keeps up as it has the movie could soon catch up to the pack leaders, although the $2.8 billion earned by Avatar to date seems fairly safe for the moment.
How many times have you supported the films $1 billion mark? I know plenty of people who have seen the movie more than one time.

The final installment in the popular boy wizard franchise, starring Daniel Radcliffe as Potter, was released across America at midnight on Friday and ticket sales for the first showings of the film soared way past the $30 million record held by last summer's The Twilight Saga: Eclipse.

And it's continuing to captivate cinema-goers - early weekend estimates for the movie easily beat the 2008 Batman film The Dark Knight, which previously held the title with takings of $158.4 million.

Shia LaBeouf's Transformers: Dark Of The Moon is a very distant second place in the U.S. box office chart with $21.3 million, and Jennifer Aniston's comedy Horrible Bosses is at three with $17.6 million.

Family movies Zookeeper and Cars 2 round out the weekend's top five in fourth and fifth place, respectively.