Owen Wilson in Woody Allen’s Midnight in Paris
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2 topped the North American box office on Monday, July 18, earning $18.04 million according to Box Office Mojo. Starring Daniel Radcliffe, Emma Watson, Rupert Grint, and Ralph Fiennes, Deathly Hallows: Part 2 will likely pass the $200 million milestone at the domestic box office some time today.
Directed by David Yates, and adapted by Steve Kloves from J.K. Rowling’s novel, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2 also features Helena Bonham Carter, Jason Isaacs, Emma Thompson, Gary Oldman, Tom Felton, Michael Gambon, John Hurt, Maggie Smith, Robbie Coltrane, Kelly Macdonald, Ciaran Hinds, David Thewlis, Timothy Spall, Miranda Richardson, Julie Walters, Jim Broadbent, Warwick Davis, and Miriam Margolyes.
At no. 2, Michael Bay’s Transformers: Dark of the Moon collected $2.83m. Starring Shia LaBeouf, Rosie Huntington-Whiteley, and Josh Duhamel, Transformers 3 is currently the biggest 2011 domestic release. Within three weeks or so, that may change as Deathly Hallows: Part 2 seems poised to become the year’s biggest blockbuster.
Starring Jennifer Aniston, Jason Bateman, Colin Farrell, and Kevin Spacey, Horrible Bosses brought in $2.61m at no. 3. The R-rated comedy was followed by Kevin James‘ Zookeeper with $1.84m at no. 4. At no. 5, John Lasseter’s Cars 2 drew $1.23m.
Next in line were Disney’s Winnie the Pooh with $1.12m at no. 6 and the Cameron Diaz-Justin Timberlake-Jason Segel R-rated comedy Bad Teacher with $785k at no. 7.
At no. 8, the Tom Hanks-Julia Roberts vehicle Larry Crowne, directed by Tom Hanks himself, added $343k.
Rounding out the top twelve were J. J. Abrams‘ Super 8 with $280k, Selena Gomez’s Monte Carlo with $267k, Woody Allen-Owen Wilson’s Midnight in Paris with $262k, Kristen Wiig’s Bridesmaids with $261k. Monte Carlo was back among the top twelve following a surprisingly low 30% Sunday-to-Monday drop-off rate.
Gone from the top twelve was Jim Carrey’s Mr. Popper’s Penguins.
Among the top-twelve movies on the North American chart, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2 scored the highest per-theater average, a 3D/IMAX-assisted $4,124. Larry Crowne had the lowest, $150.
Also among the top twelve, Transformers: Dark of the Moon had the steepest Sunday-to-Monday drop-off rate, -56%. Monte Carlo had the lowest, the aforementioned -30%.
Photo: Midnight in Paris (Roger Arpajou / Sony Pictures Classics)