The boy done good

This weekend Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2 (HP 7.2) passed the $1.3bn mark at the global box office. With a massive gross of $1,311,580,000, it stands as the third biggest movie of all time, behind only Titanic and Avatar.  This figure is even more remarkable when you consider Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 1 took an impressive, but lesser $955,417,476 globally in late 2010. Part of this difference can be explained by the higher 3D ticket prices for HP 7.2.  Part one was a wholly 2D affair. 
  

On the all time US box office list HP 7.2 now sits at fourteenth with a take of $374,580,000, having just surpassed the total for Spider-man 2.  Why not higher than fourteenth?  Well, Harry has always done better internationally than in the US.  In the global chart the previous seven movies span places 11th to 32nd, with five entries in the top twenty.  In the US list these movies chart between 28th and 62nd.

Source: boxofficemojo.com