Potter Triumphant, Revisited III

Britain's tiny wizard stands astride the movie world like a colossus, caring neither for finglefrat or buzzlethrub nor leapsnepper. In a season when big movies seldom recoup the money it took to make them — let alone pile profit on top of that — Harry Potter's flick The Goblet of Fire made more than $100 million in its opening weekend, setting the BlogPulse record for the most rapidly lucrative film this blog has yet recorded. (Full report, as always, is here.) If this were a normal weekend, we'd be talking about Walk the Line, the new Johnny Cash biopic that pulled in $22 million, but with Harry Potter, nothing is ever normal. We shouldn't laugh, but NewsDrunk did came up with a particularly crude way of saying this: "Estimates from multiple sources indicate that Warner Bros.’ Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire not only dominated the box office this weekend, it neatly lined up all other movies and raped them one by one." Quite. But for the full gamut of reaction, all you have to do is go to our Key People and click the top name.

Posted by Philip Ewing at November 21, 2005 09:05 AM

Category: Moving Pictures