

RELATED: Harry Potter: 5 Things Wed Change About The Order Of the Phoenix The excitement for the final movie in the series was extremely high back in the summer of 2011 and, inevitably, it was a roaring success raking in $1,341,932,398 across the globe. Harry Potter And The Deathly Hallows: Part : $125 MillionĮven people who werent Harry Potter fans felt they should check out the Deathly Hallows: Part 2 just to see what all the hype was about. They are the only extended editions released on DVD and Blu-ray. The Ultimate Edition releases of Sorcerers Stone and Chamber of Secrets in 2009 included the extended versions of each film.

The Harry Potter Extended Versions have the deleted scenes, found on the home movie releases, cut back into the film. More…Ĭan You Buy The Extended Versions Of Harry Potter I would choose to be optimistic, but that hasnt worked out this weekend. The film should still earn between $70 million and $75 million over the weekend, depending on if the high CinemaScore can overcome the Fanboy Effect. The reviews are weaker than the franchise as a whole, but its CinemaScore is an A and thats roughly average for the previous 8 Harry Potter films. This is the worst opening day in the Harry Potter franchise since The Chamber of Secrets. However, it only managed $29.7 million, which was well below expectations. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: 198,227 words.įriday Estimates: Fantastic Dominates Charts But With Just $297 MillionĪs expected, Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them easily earned first place on Friday. Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone: 76,944 words. The word count figures for the other six books, in order: They were willing to accept longer books because they knew to follow up books would sell well. According to Wikipedia, the American version, Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone remained on the New York Times bestseller list for 79 consecutive weeks.ĭue to the sales of the first book, the publishersBloomsbury for the British version and Scholastic for the American versionwanted more books about the world of Harry Potter from Rowling. In comparison, each of the other six books are longer, likely due to the initial success of the Philosophers’s Stone, which within its first two years had sold more than 300,000 copies in the U.K. Publishers usually dont accept long novels from first-time authors. Plus, she probably didnt want to make the first book too long, or the publisher might not have accepted it. Since this was the first book, Rowling had more time to edit the book and make the writing more concise. It has fewer words than the other six books, making it the shortest book in the series. The first book, Harry Potter and the Sorcerers Stone, has 76,944 words. Harry Potter – All Movies Reviewed and Ranked (part 1)įirst, well look at the number of words for each book in the series.
