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That record, which currently belongs to &#8220;The Dark Knight,&#8221; stands at $158.4 million.<\/p>\n<p>Thanks to the strong &#8220;Potter&#8221; performance, the overall box office had its best day of all-time Friday.<\/p>\n<p>Elsewhere, &#8220;Transformers: Dark of the Moon&#8221; fell to number two on $6.3 million in receipts.  Currently at $288 million total, a flirtation with the $300 million domestic mark is imminent for the second &#8220;Transformers&#8221; sequel.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Horrible Bosses&#8221; landed in third on $5.5 million Friday, which represents a somewhat steeper-than-expected drop for the well-reviewed comedy, especially since it was not battling any new comedic entries this weekend.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Zookeeper&#8221; scored $3.9 million for fourth, while new release &#8220;Winnie the Pooh&#8221; posted $2.9 million in fifth.  Like &#8220;Potter,&#8221; &#8220;Pooh&#8221; received phenomenal reviews.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"adace-sponsor":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v21.1 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>&quot;Harry Potter&quot; Sets Major Box Office Record, More Coming this Weekend<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"&quot;Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part II&quot; destroyed the &quot;New Moon&quot; single-day box office record Friday, positioning itself not only for a dominant\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/headlineplanet.com\/home\/2011\/07\/16\/harry-potter-sets-major-box-office-record-more-coming-this-weekend\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"&quot;Harry Potter&quot; Sets Major Box Office Record, More Coming this Weekend\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"&quot;Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part II&quot; destroyed the &quot;New Moon&quot; single-day box office record Friday, positioning itself not only for a dominant\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/headlineplanet.com\/home\/2011\/07\/16\/harry-potter-sets-major-box-office-record-more-coming-this-weekend\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Headline Planet\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2011-07-16T19:15:23+00:00\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"Brian Cantor\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:creator\" content=\"@cantorpedia\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:site\" content=\"@headlineplanet\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/headlineplanet.com\/home\/2011\/07\/16\/harry-potter-sets-major-box-office-record-more-coming-this-weekend\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/headlineplanet.com\/home\/2011\/07\/16\/harry-potter-sets-major-box-office-record-more-coming-this-weekend\/\",\"name\":\"\\\"Harry Potter\\\" Sets Major Box Office Record, More Coming this Weekend\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/headlineplanet.com\/home\/#website\"},\"datePublished\":\"2011-07-16T19:15:23+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2011-07-16T19:15:23+00:00\",\"author\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/headlineplanet.com\/home\/#\/schema\/person\/b530255b81ceb7463ea060a9b8a302c8\"},\"description\":\"\\\"Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part II\\\" destroyed the \\\"New Moon\\\" single-day box office record Friday, positioning itself not only for a dominant\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"ReadAction\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/headlineplanet.com\/home\/2011\/07\/16\/harry-potter-sets-major-box-office-record-more-coming-this-weekend\/\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"WebSite\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/headlineplanet.com\/home\/#website\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/headlineplanet.com\/home\/\",\"name\":\"Headline Planet\",\"description\":\"Music News &amp; Charts, TV News &amp; Spoilers\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"SearchAction\",\"target\":{\"@type\":\"EntryPoint\",\"urlTemplate\":\"https:\/\/headlineplanet.com\/home\/?s={search_term_string}\"},\"query-input\":\"required name=search_term_string\"}],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\"},{\"@type\":\"Person\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/headlineplanet.com\/home\/#\/schema\/person\/b530255b81ceb7463ea060a9b8a302c8\",\"name\":\"Brian Cantor\",\"image\":{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/headlineplanet.com\/home\/#\/schema\/person\/image\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/5726265e0532f231e46bbddd41009383?s=96&d=mm&r=g\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/5726265e0532f231e46bbddd41009383?s=96&d=mm&r=g\",\"caption\":\"Brian Cantor\"},\"description\":\"Brian Cantor is the editor-in-chief for Headline Planet. 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