Harry Potter Could Break Opening Weekend Records

I have to admit, I am a Harry Potter fan. I loved all the books, and the movies were pretty good too. So, I am pretty bummed out that I didn’t get tickets to see ‘Harry Potter And The Deathly Hallows Part 1” this weekend. The latest Potter installment could break all kinds of box-office records. Pre-sale tickets were up over $35 million dollars!

35 million dollars…think about that. A lot of movies won’t EVER make that much money. But this flick made $35 million dollars before it even opened. Estimates say it will pull between 100-150 million dollars by the end of the weekend, possibly shattering previous opening weekend records. And overall, the Harry Potter franchise is also on track to surpass the Star Wars franchise in earnings. Wow, apparently Potter-Mania is still in full force.

I guess I’ll have to wait until next week to check it out. The bright side for me is that I won’t have to endure the crowds of a packed movie opening. I like my space in the movie theater, but almost every time I go to an opening, I end up sitting by THE most annoying person(s) in the theater. It never fails.

The chatty teenage girls who send enough texts to write their own screen play. The lady who has to loudly repeat every joke made on-screen. The moody, 7’4” guy that sits directly in front of you. The lady who sucks on her straw for the entire movie, despite taking in the last possible drop of soda during the previews. The big guy who sits next to you and claims, not only the shared armrest, but part of your seat and most of the floor in front of your seat as his own. The overweight guy that sounds like he might keel over during the film as he wheezes and loses his breath while chewing popcorn. And the nerd in the back row that boos and has to make sure the entire theater has to be made aware of every plausible error made in the book to movie conversion.

Yeah, I’m like a magnet for all of them at movie premiers. So, maybe it’s best I have to wait on the new Potter movie.