{"id":1493,"date":"2009-07-15T13:14:50","date_gmt":"2009-07-15T17:14:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/headlineplanet.com\/home\/?p=1493"},"modified":"2009-07-15T13:14:50","modified_gmt":"2009-07-15T17:14:50","slug":"harry-potter-sets-midnight-record","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/headlineplanet.com\/home\/2009\/07\/15\/harry-potter-sets-midnight-record\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Harry Potter&#8221; Sets Midnight Record"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The buzz going into &#8220;Harry Potter and the Half Blood Prince&#8221; was big, even for a Harry Potter film.  And the anticipation helped the film make a major impact; the latest &#8220;Potter&#8221; set the midnight box office record.<\/p>\n<p>According to estimates, the film grossed $22.2 million in its 3,003 midnight runs Tuesday night\/Wednesday morning, which gives it a healthy lead as the best midnight performer in history.  Last summer&#8217;s &#8220;The Dark Knight,&#8221; which went on to gross in excess of $500 million, earned $18 million in its midnight bow.<\/p>\n<p>Earlier this summer, &#8220;Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen&#8221; pulled $16 million in its midnight premiere.  That film has grossed over $300 million and has far and away been the best performer this summer.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix,&#8221; the last Potter film adaptation, pulled only $12 million at midnight.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/view.picapp.com\/default.aspx?term=\\harry potter&#038;iid=5351859\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/cdn.picapp.com\/ftp\/Images\/f\/2\/7\/1\/Harry_Potter_And_619f.jpg?adImageId=1894791&#038;imageId=5351859\" width=\"320\" height=\"503\"  border=\"0\" alt=\"Harry Potter And The Half-Blood Prince Premiere at the Ziegfeld Theater\"\/><\/a><script type=\"text\/javascript\" src=\"http:\/\/cdn.pis.picapp.com\/IamProd\/PicAppPIS\/JavaScript\/PisV4.js\"><\/script><\/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 Midnight Record<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"The buzz going into &quot;Harry Potter and the Half Blood Prince&quot; was big, even for a Harry Potter film. 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