Box Office Record Broken
15
July
Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix opened Wednesday with $44.2 million in ticket sales, easily trumping the $40.4 million Wednesday set by Spider-Man 2 way back in 2002. Phoenix also took over fifth place on the list of the biggest one-day opening tallies, just behind Spider-Man 3 ($59.8 million), Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man’s Chest ($55 million), Star Wars: Episode III - Revenge of the Sith ($50 million) and X-Men: The Last Stand ($45 million).
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