Are you referring to this line in particular it should've be avadacadavra.

"I'm a very angry witch. I will cast a 'Crucio' curse on the government and torture them for failing to bring the film in," she said, referring to a spell in Potter's world that inflicts excruciating pain on its victims.

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Oh, and i didn't know Pirates 4 didn't open in Indonesia as well...it could've solidified it's chances of $800m had it opened there, that woul've probably given it another $5m to the overseas tally.

Pirates 4 is now 50-50 i think of passing $800m.

Check this out:

http://www.boxofficemojo.com/intl/indon ... k=5&p=.htm

Start there and keep going forward week after week. Watch out for the theatre counts and the week #.

It's crazy...

Well Indonesia is one of the major developing markets as well. It's population is huge like Philippines and will be the next big thing after Russia, India, China.

In fact in Asia, Vietnam and Indonesia are probably the next big thing. Grosses in Vietnam in particular have started to reach the $1m mark consistently now....and it'll continue on from there.

Indonesia over the past year has started to get bigger and bigger, movies constantly replace themselves at the top on opening all-time records (hence why Potter 7-1 managed to get to #1). It's very much like Russia and China though on a much smaller scale.

The same goes for the UAE,

You can argue that all of East Asia/South East Asia are expanding at an incredible rate. 6/7 opening records broken by Transformers 3 were by Asian markets. Singapore, Malaysia and Hong Kong are 3 of the markets that did it with Transformers 3. Malaysia is already up to four 5m movies so far this year when last year had none. Singapore has four 4m pictures + one 7m film when last year, only 3 films made it past 4m. Hong Kong just set the opening weekend record last year and Transformers just broke it by 1.1m (nearly 2m if you count 5-day as its opening weekend). Also, there has been a film that has grossed over $10m in the past two years.

It's not just the developing Asian markets that are exploding but also the more established ones.

Yes we're at an unprecedented space now in overseas bo, it's all very exciting.

Can look at it this way. Here's a list of countries ordered by their yearly spend per capita. Gross is from 2009 (except India is 2008), population was just taken from Wikipedia (so generally early 2011).

Population above 100m

$34.01 - United States (312m)
$17.19 - Japan (128m)
$6.58 - Russia (143m)
$4.99 - Mexico (112m)
$2.52 - Brazil (191m)
$1.54 - India (1210m)
$0.68 - China (1340m)
$0.42 - Indonesia (238m)

Population above 50m

$25.98 - France (66m)
$23.54 - UK (62m)
$16.63 - Germany (82m)
$15.50 - Italy (61m)
$2.71 - Turkey (74m)
$1.49 - Thailand (67m)
$1.17 - Philippines (94m)
$0.68 - Egypt (80m)

Population above 20m

$37.52 - Australia (23m)
$20.15 - Spain (46m)
$17.35 - South Korea (49m)
$7.34 - Taiwan (23m)
$5.76 - Poland (38m)
$5.46 - Venezuela (29m)
$3.99 - Malaysia (28m)
$3.24 - Argentina (40m)
$2.14 - Peru (29m)
$2.00 - Colombia (46m)
$1.31 - Romania (21m)
$1.04 - South Africa (50m)
$0.26 - Morocco (32m)
$0.00 - Algeria (36m)

Latin America is expanding nearly as rapidly as Asia, and you've got the massive Brazil which is behind Russia but should end up in front of it.

Brazil

2001 - $182m
2002 - $185m
2003 - $211m
2004 - $262m
2005 - $277m
2006 - $320m
2007 - $364m
2008 - $398m
2009 - $487m
2010 - $724m

Harry Potter 3: Prisoner Of Azkaban

$795,634,069



Domestic = $249,541,069 (#63 All-Time, #6 in 2004 and #7 for the franchise)
International = $546,093,000 (#21 All-Time, #1 in 2004 and #7 for the franchise)
Worldwide = $795,634,069 (#30 All-Time, #2 in 2004 and #7 for the franchise)

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Highlights:
* United Kingdom - Still holds the opening weekend record to this day.
* Most critically acclaimed Potter release to date, but also the lowest grosser.

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Rotten Tomatoes = 91%
Metacritic = 82%
Academy Awards = 0 Wins out of 2 Nominations
BAFTAs = 0 Wins out of 4 Nominations (though won the Audience Award)

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Top 5 International Markets:
1) Japan = $131,000,000
2) United Kingdom = $84,500,000
3) Germany = $48,500,000
4) France = $47,000,000
5) Australia = $23,200,000

That's a pretty awesome chart there Inny, it just shows which ones are truly big in terms of spending power...and they match up exactly to the box office i think. Turkey, Poland, Venezuala all growing extremely fast now.

What I meant was that there was not a single new release in Indonesia since March. Movies like Cop Out topped the charts in their 56th week of release...

Oh OK, you should've said so....LOL

That's why I posted the link and told you to go forward, week by week Some crazy stuff there.

I was more interested in the numbers that each movie was getting rather than the absence of a few.

From Australia....gives a good summary of the year to date...

I'm so pumped with news of early reviews being fantastic....it will only boost its chances of bigger box office, especially being the last one and hardly any competition after it.

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Harry Potter or Transformers 3: Australia's biggest film this year

http://au.ibtimes.com/articles/176963/2 ... k-moon.htm

While so far having the biggest opening in Australia this year, Transformers 3 won't likely keep the trophy for a third straight week with the opening of the eighth and final movie of the Harry Potter franchise.

The first reviews for the Harry Potter, which premiered in London early this week, have been overwhelming. The film, most likely the last of Daniel Radcliffe, and Rupert Grint, and Emma Watson together on screen, has a 100% rating on 14 early reviews posted in Rotten Tomatoes.

"An outstanding capper to the most lucrative film franchise of all time," according to a review by Todd McCarthy of the Hollywood Reporter.

"With its accelerated rhythm, relentless flow of incident and wizard-war endgame, Part 2 will strike many viewers as a much more exciting, involving picture than the slower, more atmospheric Part 1," said Justin Chang of Variety.

"Fans can rest assured -- without wishing to spoil any of the major plot lines -- that their patience will be paid off fully, and some, in the final epic Harry Potter chapter," according ot Elisa Roche of the Daily Express.

The Harry Potter film series, based on the Harry Potter novels by the British author J. K. Rowling, has already grossed more than US$6 billion worldwide. The eight and final film, Deathly Hallows - Part 2 is expected to easily add another US$1 billion to the tally.

Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows - Part 2 will open, in 3D, as well as the traditional 2D, worldwide this coming week (July 15 for most countries). Deathly Hallows 2 will open in Australia on midnight screenings starting Tuesday, July 12.

Can final 'Harry Potter' beat 'The Dark Knight's' opening weekend?

by Joe Neumaier
http://www.nydailynews.com/blogs/showan ... ng-weekend

The early predictions for the weekend grosses of next Friday's "Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2" are now in full swing. There's certainly no doubt the last adventure of the Hogwarts kids will beat every other edition of the "Potter" series for best opening weekend, including the series' high point, $125 million, for 2010's "Deathly Hallows: Part 1." (Just an fyi, the high point before that was $102 million for 2005's "Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire." The first film, 2001's "Sorcerer's Stone," ultimately made the most muggle money at the box office so far, almost $320 million.)

At this point, a reported 2,000 screenings have already sold out round the country via pre-sales ("Harry" is the quickest-selling flick click so far this year on Fandango). And "Deathly Hallows: Part 2" (above) is reportedly ahead of last fall's "Deathly Hallows: Part 1" (left) in terms of pre-sales. It ought to handily beat the penultimate chapter's box office weekend, which topped out at $295 million.

Now, on to the non-wizard competition: Can Harry beat Batman?

In July of 2008, "The Dark Knight" made a super-dynamic $158 million at the North American box office (no, "Avatar" wasn't even a threat -- James Cameron's epic made almost $80 million in 2009). In second place is 2007's reviled yet actually underappreciated "Spider-Man 3," with $151 million. And the pokey "Twilight Saga: New Moon" comes in third at $142 million in 2009.

"Deathly Hallows: Part 2" is on over 4,200 screens, and has some Imax and 3-D screens in there as well; "Dark Knight" (right) had some tricked-out 3-D and Imax versions as well on its 4,366 screens.

Prognosticators note that Harry's final opus is clocking in at about 2 hours and 10 minutes, whereas Batman and the Joker's running time was over two and a half hours. That means there can be more screenings per day of Harry, Hermione and Ron, including round-the-clocks.

And that final note brings up one more comparison: The last "Star Wars" movie, "Episode III: Revenge of the Sith" (below) made $108 million in 2005, on its way to an ultimate $380 million. (It ran slightly less than two and a half hours, if we care). That now seems like chump change, though the comparison, of course, is that the George Lucas saga was the final of six movies, the only series that approcahes the eight-film "Potter" cycle.

So, to sum up all those numbers: Harry will be huge. 'Nuff said.

Now the article touches open the topic of running time, this is the shortest Harry Potter movie

Harry Potter 1 - 152 mins (2 hrs 32 mins)
Harry Potter 2 - 161 mins (2 hrs 41 mins) - Longest
Harry Potter 3 - 142 mins (2 hrs 22 mins)
Harry Potter 4 - 157 mins (2 hrs 37 mins)
Harry Potter 5 - 138 mins (2 hrs 18 mins)
Harry Potter 6 - 153 mins (2 hrs 33 mins)
Harry Potter 7-1 - 146 mins (2 hrs 26 mins)
Harry Potter 7-2 - 130 mins (2 hrs 10 mins) - Shortest

And some comparisons....in order of largest opening weekend

The Dark Knight - 152 mins (2 hrs 32 mins) -> $158,411,483
Spiderman 3 - 139 mins (2 hrs 19 mins) -> $151,116,516
Twilight: New Moon - 130 mins (2 hrs 10 mins) -> $142,839,137
Pirates of the Caribbean 2 - 151 mins (2 hrs 31 mins) -> $135,634,554
Iron Man 2 - 125 mins (2 hrs 5 mins) -> $128,122,480
Harry Potter 7-1 - 146 mins (2 hrs 26 mins) -> $125,017,372
Shrek 3 - 93 mins (1 hr 33 mins) -> $121,629,270
Alice In Wonderland - 108 mins (1 hr 48 mins) -> $116,101,023
Spiderman 1 - 121 mins (2 hrs 1 min) -> $114,844,116
Pirates of the Caribbean 3 - 169 mins (2 hrs 49 mins) -> $114,732,820

Some others

LOTR: ROTK - 201 mins (3 hrs 21 mins)
Avatar - 162 mins (2 hrs 42 mins)
Transformers 2 - 150 mins (2 hrs 30 mins)
Transformers 3 - 144 mins (2 hrs 24 mins)
Star Wars 3: ROTS - 140 mins (2 hrs 20 mins)
Twilight; Eclipse - 124 mins (2 hrs 4 mins)
Toy Story 3 - 103 mins (1 hr 43 mins)

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The movie with the closest running time to HP7-2 is strangely Twilight: New Moon which scored the 3rd largest opening weekend of all-time. This is the shortest Harry Potter to date (damn, i wish it had been at least 2 hrs 30 mins)....so expect more sessions and even bigger OW. I'm expecting at least $145m with a chance at $150m.

I'm predicting it to do 80 million opening day (after 40 million midnight) and 170 million opening weekend.

That's definately possible, it's bound to get the midnight record and since it has a very similar running time to New Moon, it will surely do extremely well. The only question is how much of its audience it'll burn out in midnights vs. during the day. That's hard to say....

UNITED KINGDOM - Preview

Well the time has come for the Boy Wizard to return home. UK is where the heart is and he just had a wonderful world premiere there a few days ago.

This market has been very stable for Potter with no releases below the $80m mark. Only LOTRs has managed to do something similar with its releases. The US to the pound has been somewhat dissapointing of late, definately not at the levels of 2006-2008 before the GFC so it'll need to work much harder to earn those US$; however, it's still slightly better than the early noughties when HP1 set the box office on fire.

Should we take a look back each release like we've done before?

2001 - Harry Potter 1:
* Obliterated Phantom Menace's the opening weekend record (US$15m / 9.5m pounds) when it opened, grossing US$23m / 16.3m pounds.
* Ruled for 5 straight weeks at #1, grossing US$70m before FOTR opened.
* HP1 would go on to gross a staggering £66,096,060 which was only 3m pounds behind the record holder, Titanic at £69,025,646. It beat FOTR in a close race with only 3m setting them apart. FOTR made £63,009,288
* HP1 now sits at #5 on the all-time charts in local pounds; sinced passed by Mamma Mia, Avatar and Toy Story 3.

2002 - Harry Potter 2:
* Through 2002, there were a lot of changes to the Top 10 opening weekends with Star Wars 2, Spiderman and Monsters Inc all doing wonderful numbers. However they all couldn't replace HP1 at the top; that is until HP2 lifted the record by another 2m pounds (including previews) and close to US$30m.
* It's run at the top was cut short by James Bond DIe ANother Day which opened the week after. HP2 was down 62% in its 2nd weekend; though was only $3m off DAD's $14.3m opening
* It's final total was 11m pounds lower than HP1 at £54,780,731 and was relegated to #2 for that year behind LOTR: TTT's £57,600,094. It was a very strong however which saw Monsters Inc, AOTC and Die ANother Day all grossing above 30m pounds.
* HP2 is still inside the Top 10 all-time charts; and actually stands at #10 ahead of HP7-1.


2004 - Harry Potter 3:
* The most memorable thing about HP3's run was undoubtedly the opening. It still holds the largest opening weekend (regardless of days and previews) at a staggerinng US $43.7m or 23.9m pounds. Nothing has since come close and its still US$10m ahead of the next place-getter.
* HP3 had an opening 7-Day holiday weekend and made a staggering 5.03m pounds on opening day (a record which held for 6 years until HP7-1 broke it last year with 5.9m pounds).
* It held the top spot for straight 4-weeks and was hardly pushed. The run was ended by Shrek 2.
* HP3 is the lowest grossing Potter release in the UK with £45,615,949 of which more than 50% was made in the first 7-Days. It lost the yearly title to Shrek 2 which obviously had better legs. Birdget Jones Edge Of Reason rounded out the top 3 for that year.


2005 - Harry Potter 4:
* HP5 scored the top opening in local pounds in 2005 14.93m pounds vs. Star Wars 3's 14.36m (incl. p/v) though didn't top it in US$ $25.6m vs. US$27.5m.
* Ruled for 3 weeks in the #1 spot and was taken over by Chronicles of Narnia.
* It improved on HP3's franchise low, recovering to gross £48,328,854 and was #1 for 2005 ahead of Narnia's £43,239,634 and ROTs' £39,188,065.


2007 - Harry Potter 5:
* HP5's is still the 2nd largest opener of all-time to this day (behind HP3). It grossed US$33.5m over the 4-Days and above 16.4m pounds.
* It opened 2 weeks after Shrek 3 here and held the top spot for 2 weeks; which was ended by The Simpsons Movie (and Transformers).
* HP5 improved again over HP4 and finished with £49,136,969, well clear of Pirates 3's £40,125,303, Simpsons £38,312,694 and Shrek 3's £38,079,462.
* It's at #17 on the all-time totals chart


2009 - Harry Potter 6:
* HP6's opening is the 3rd largest for the franchise in US$ and still a Top 5 (at #5) opener all-time. It had a 5-Day opening.
* Hp6 opened in Ice Age 3's 3rd week and actually almost made more on opening US$32m then Ice Age 3's total at the time $33.1m.
* It was #1 for 3 weeks and pushed down to #3 in its 4th week by the combined opening of Ugly Truth and GI Joe.
* Improved yet again over its predecessor and broguht the franchise back inside 50m pounds. Unfortunately, It's £50,713,404 was obviously not enough to top the year with Avatar pulling a record £93,442,625. the Top 5 for that year was rounded out by Ice Age 3's £34,872,218, Up's £34,284,193 and Slumdog's £31,664,077.
* HP6 is #16 on the all-time charts today.


2010 - Harry Potter 7-1:
* HP7-1 was the movie which ended HP3's single day and opening day record. It made 5.9m pounds and just above US$9.4m. It then broke its own record on Saturday with 6.6m pounds ($10.52m) and finished with 5.5m pounds Sunday (US$9.25m). In poiunds, HP7-1 owns the top 3 single days of all-time.
* The opening in US$ beat Simpsons Movie as the largest non-preview or extra day boosted release over the regular 3-Day opening weekend. It also holds that record in pounds
* The overall US$ opening title for 2010 however belonged to Toy STory 3 which emulated HP3's 7-Day release, chalking up US$33.5m and 21.2m pounds.
* HP7-1 held the top spot for 4 weeks ended by Narnia: Dawn Treader.
* HP7-1 had a pretty good leap over HP6 and finished with £52,478,788. Not enough to finish the year on top (TS3' did an amazing £73,405,113 2nd all-time behind Avatar) but sits at #11 on the all-time charts today....and was miles ahead of Alice in Wonderland's £42,169,542 and Inception's £35,264,403.

Jun 29 - Transformers 3 (Wed)
Jul 08 - No major releases of note
Jul 15 - Harry Potter 7-2 (Fri)
Jul 22 - Cars 2, Horrible Bosse
Jul 29 - Captain America, Zookeeper
Aug 5 - Super8, Mr. Popper's Penguins
Aug 12 - Rise of the Planet of the Apes, The Smurfs (Aug 10)

By the time it opens, HP7-2 should face no resistence from any movie. Transformers 3 is probably going to be the only when still pulling in decent numbers. TF3 opened to $17.25m last weekend.

It's been a pretty mild year in UK box office so far. We had a very strong start with The King's Speech pulling in giant numbers (it's actually still grossing and has made £45,354,368 as of last weekend). However, the only other movies to do sizeable numbers since are Pirates 4 (£32,299,727 after 7 weeks) and The Hangover 2 (£31,816,539 after 6 weeks). The rest of the summer crop have been ordinary at best. THough there's no doubt that audiences will respond in force when HP7-2 opens.

The fact that HP7-1 over the 3-Day opening frame scored 3 of the largest single days in box office history here gives us a taste of things to come. There's no doubt that the opening day record will fall next Friday when HP7-2 debuts. In fact, it may also claim the top single day record as well on Friday (it will need to top 6.6m pounds) - very possible i think. If it's opening doesn't do it, then it's Saturday surely will. US$30m and 20m pounds is pretty much certain if you ask me...and there's also a good possibility that it may even touch US$40m or above 23m pounds on opening. It'll need $43.7m however to knock off HP3 for the #1 spot on opening by Sunday or 23.9m pounds. Not impossible.

I see it doing something like:

Friday - 7.5m pounds (with insane midnights) / US$12m
Saturday - 8m pounds / US$13m
Sunday - 6.5m pounds / US$11m
Opening = 22m pounds / US$36m

Competition starts to step in its 2nd week, though none of them will pose a serious challenge; definately not in the vein of Shrek or Simpsons. It'll probably rule for 4-5 weeks. I don't see Cars 2 opening on its 2nd weekend to be too much trouble. The original Cars opened to $4.97m in late July 2006 (Pirate 2's 4 week) finishing with just over $30m. Also if KFP2 is a sign of things to come, expect a drop for Cars 2. Kung Fu Panda 1 (US$36m) had a similar total gross to Cars 1 but it's predecessor is finding it very tough, opening lower with $10m a few weeks ago and struggling with just $20m after 4-weeks, it'll not be crossing $30m.

While i don't think it has the power to take the Top 2 positions on the all-time charts (Avatar and TS3 look very strong), i'm predicting a franchise leading end gross above 66m and something on par with Mamma Mia or Titanic. I'm obviously banking on repeat viewings here....because even if it opens strongly, if we go by the legs of previous installments it doesn't look too good. Still this is the last release and i think audiences will really support it.

Avatar - £8,509,050 (US$13.8m) // £93,442,625 (US$152m) = 11x
Toy Story 3 - £21,187,264 (US$32.7m) 7-Day // £73.4m (US$118m) = 3.5x
Mamma Mia - £5,204,651 (US$10.3m) // £69,166,087 (US$132m) = 13.29x
Titanic - £4,805,270 (US$8m) // £69,025,646 (US$113) = 14.37x
Harry Potter 1: PS - £16,335,627 (US$23m) // £66,096,060 (US$91.5m) = 4.04x
Lord of the Rings: FOTR - £11,058,045 (US$15.9m) // £63,051,172 (US$89.5m) = 5.7x
Lord of the Rings: ROTK - £15,021,761 (US$20.9m) // £61,062,348 (US$109m) = 4.06x
Lord of the Rings: TTT - £13,063,560 (US$26.5m) // £57,654,384 (US$93m) = 4.41x
James Bond: Casino Royale - £13,370,969 (US$25.3m) // £55,495,547 ($109m) = 4.15x
Harry Potter 2: COS - £18,871,829 (US$29.8m) // £54,780,731 (US$85.7m) = 2.9x
Harry Potter 7-1: DH -£18,319,721 (US$29.3m) // £52,478,788 (US$84.5m) = 2.86x
Pirates Of The Caribbean 2: DMC - £13,740,784 (US$25.4m) // £51,998,090 (US$98m) = 3.78x
James Bond: Quantum of Solace - £15,384,217 (US$25.3m) // £51,070,677 (US$81m) = 3.3x
Star Wars 1: PM - £9,512,295 (US$14.9m) // £51,063,811 (US$83m) = 5.37x
[b]Harry Potter 6: HBP - £19,784,924 (US$32.3m) 5-Day // £50,713,404 (US$85m) = 2.56x
Harry Potter 5: OOTP - £16,493,305 ($33.5m) // £49,136,969 (US$101.4m) x2.97x
The Dark Knight - £11,191,824 (US$22.2m) // £48,824,392 (US$89) = 4.36x
Harry Potter 4: GOF - £14,933,901 (US$25.6m) // £48,769,962 (US$86m) = 3.26x
Shrek 2 - £16,220,752 (US$29.6m) // £48,104,138 (US$88.1m) = 3x
Harry Potter 3: POA - £23,882,688 (US$43.7m) // £46,077,489 (US$84.5m) = 1.93x
Chronicles of Narnia: TLTW&TW - £8,884,111 ($15.6m) // £43,903,853 (US$77m) = 4.94x
Alice In Wonderland - £10,555,220 (US$16m) // £42,169,542 (US$66m) = 4x
Pirates Of The Caribbean 3: At Worlds End -£13,412,294 (US$26.6m) // £40,646,683 (US$83m) = 3x

Opening = 22m pounds (US$36m)
Total = 70m pounds (US$115m)[/quote]

I wonder what gave you that idea.
Russia:
2001 - $50 m
2002 - $110 m
2003 - $200 m
2004 - $268 m
2005 - $349 m
2006 - $455 m
2007 - $565 m
2008 - $830 m
2009 - $736 m during the worst crisis since 1998
2010 - $1057 m with the record-breaking Summer heat, heavy smog over most populated territories, the worst wildfires in history, Moscow turning into hell on Earth with death rates doubling, massive draught, and state of emergency in half of the country destroying the best moviegoing season
2011 - Q1 was -10% compared to the red-hot Q1 2010, Q2 breaking the downward trend, currently +8% with every week increasing the gap. I would expect close to $1500 m this year

LOL, both of these markets are just insane, Russia is just WOW. In 10 years, 20x larger

Take a look at these World Premiere clips.......

http://www.awardsdaily.com/2011/07/jk-r ... more-41691

...wow, so epic. Reminds me of the NZ Premiere of ROTK, these are big spectacles truly adds to the excitement. I'm glad Britain was out in full force at the premiere of Potter, i don't think we'll ever see something as big as this film series for quite some time.

It's also quite emotional to see the three leads....it's been more than 10 years and it's like we've all grown with them.

Also you can see how emotional everyone was, JK Rowling and Emma

And it all started with that.

I'm so pumped after watching these clips. I don't think i've felt as emotionall excited about this for a movie ever since ROTK.

There will always be movies which gets you excited but its very rare that you get one which tips you over the edge and get quite emotional. The feeling of loss and excitement when mixed together is quite powerful i think.

LOTRs, Star Wars and Harry Potter will always be the holy trinity for me. Something which Batman, Pirates 4 no matter how much they gross will be able to capture.

Yeah, they're all so cute and innocent back then.

I gotta be honest, back in 2001 i was not that excited about Harry Potter to the same extent that i have now - in fact, like Twilight, when it opened i had no clue what the fuss was all about. Since i was not a major reader of books, i never knew that there was this huge following for Potter.

For me, FOTR was the event pic of 2001, from the momment i saw the first teaser trailer i was hooked. Harry Potter 1 was one of those pics I didn't mind seeing but would not rush out to see. I remember seeing it and thinking it was Ok but slightly too childish for my liking, i wanted some more mystical and traditional fantasy (ala FOTR - which obviously blew my socks off). I was a few years older than Potter's core demographic.

However as the series progressed, I can always count on Potter to deliver a truly enjoyable moviegoing experience. Even if it didn't exactly blow my socks off everytime (HP4 came pretty close, and hopefully 7-2 will do it) i always left the cinema wanting to see more.

The fact that this is the last one obviously has me feeling a bit sad. Knock it as much as you like, Potter has been truly consistent and delivered fun for audiences young and old.

Maybe a definite end makes them more dramatic compared to other franchises, which are essentially endless, as long as they're bringing money.