Harry Potter
Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince made many people happy yesterday, especially Warner Brothers. The blockbuster film made a whopping $58.4 million in its opening day, including its record-breaking $22 million from midnight shows alone. That makes it the second-best Wednesday ever. The best Wednesday ever? That belongs to those giant robots from Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen.
The biggest one-day take for a film still belongs to The Dark Knight, with $67.2 million.
The last Potter film, Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix, made $44 million on its first day (also a Wednesday) so this movie is sure to pass that in box office receipts. We’ll see if it can break any weekend records set by Transformers only last month.
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Happy Monday everybody! We hope your fourth was amazing and safe. You’ve still got all yours limbs, right? Let’s look forward and see what’s bound to make news on this beautiful July day.
MJ
Here are some upcoming stories to count on for Monday, July 6:
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Of course everyone is still getting prepared for Michael Jackson’s memorial service. It’ll be tomorrow morning at the Staples Center in downtown L.A. Word is that tickets have started to pop on eBay, fetching nearly $1,000 a piece. This story is certain to stay evolve throughout the day. We’ll keep you up to date on all the current MJ news.
- The box office was on fire this holiday weekend. However, as I write this, we still don’t have a clear winner. Both Ice Age: Dawn of the Dinosaurs and Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen have made about $42.5 million. The Johnny Depp/Christian Bale film, Public Enemies, also did well with a strong $26.2 million. The final numbers should come out today and we’ll get a real champion so make sure to look out for that.
There’s sure to be more big news today, so stick with The Count for all your pop culture news.
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Megan Fox
No love lost between Transformers director Michael Bay and Transformers star Megan Fox.
Speaking of their smash hit earlier in the week, Fox said “I think if you haven’t read the script and you go and you see it and you understand it, I think you might be a genius.” Wait a second Megan, are you saying the script for Transformers isn’t on par with Shakespeare? Bite your tongue, madam!
Bay later hit back with this: “Well, that’s Megan Fox for you. She says some very ridiculous things because she’s 23 years old and she still has a lot of growing to do.” Ouch.
To make matters more personal, Bay said that “nobody in the world knew about Megan Fox until I found her.” He’s right there.
Fox has yet to have a hit outside of the Transformers franchise so Michael may have a point. Perhaps she does owe all her success to Bay. And while many may complain about Fox’s looks and demeanor, you’ve got to applaud her for having a backbone.
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Opened yesterday
That noise you hear is the sound of Dreamworks and Paramount executives rolling in money.
Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen, the movie that everyone is talking about (but not necessarily in a good way) is going to be a big hit. The question is now how big? Looking at last night’s numbers, everyone can safely assume that Transformers 3 won’t be too far away.
The film made $16 million at the midnight screenings last night. While not as good as The Dark Knight’s midnight haul of $18.5 million, that’s still darn good. In fact, it’s the greatest Wednesday midnight draw ever. And Transformers’ IMAX haul surpassed The Dark Knight’s. But questions still remain. While this weekend’s numbers will be stellar, will bad word-of-mouth affect next week’s business?
I still haven’t seen it. Is it any good?
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