Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix

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As Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix's mid-week opening numbers indicated, neither magic nor sorcery was required for the film to dominate the box office over the weekend and finish at No. 1. The HP franchise's fifth installment conjured a hefty $77.4 mil from Friday to Sunday, which, when added to the $62.6 mil that the movie brewed up on Wednesday and Thursday, brought its five-day premiere to $140 mil.

But there were many more impressive stats in the movie's bag of tricks. HpatOotP passed $100 mil in a mere four days. It scored the summer's fourth-best three-day bow, after Spider-Man 3 ($151.1 mil), Shrek the Third ($121.6 mil), and Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End ($114.7 mil). It earned a very nice A- CinemaScore review from an audience that was almost evenly split between women and men, and older folks and wee ones. It averaged a tremendous $80,512 on 91 IMAX screens, where it made $7.3 mil. And it banked a huge $190.3 mil in 61 overseas markets for a gigantic $330 mil worldwide total over the five-day span. Now that really is amazing! (And it conveniently overshadows the one caveat here: that HpatOotP had, in fact, the weakest three-day debut among all HP flicks, about $11 mil behind Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets. Then again, to be fair, this is the first one to have opened on a Wednesday.)