If you were expecting Bruno or any other movie to beat out ‘Harry Potter and the Half Blood Price’ for the number one spot in the box, you will be disspointed.

Harry Potter and gang brought in a 3 day total of $79.4 million, 5 day total of $159.6 million, and a 5 day worldwide total of $205.5 million.

If you compare this opening to that of Order of the Phoenix, Half Blood Prince beats the 3 day opening by 2.5 million and the 5 day opening by $20 million!!

Elsewhere in the box office, ‘Bruno’ fell to #4 with $8.4 million dropping 72% from last week.  ‘Ice Age’ once again held onto $2 with $17.7 million and ‘Transformers’ held on to #3 with $13.8 million.

This weekends other new opener ’500 days of Summer’ which opened in limited release debuted at #12 with $838,000.

Weekends top 10

1. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince, $79.5 million
2. Ice Age: Dawn of the Dinosaurs, $17.7 million
3. Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen, $13.8 million
4. Brüno, $8.4 million
5. The Hangover, $8.3 million
6. The Proposal, $8.29 million
7. Public Enemies, $7.6 million
8. Up, $3.1 million
9. My Sister’s Keeper, $2.8 million
10. I Love You, Beth Cooper, $2.7 million

New releases for July 24th are the animated ‘G-Force’, the horror/thriller ‘The Orphan’ and the romantic comedy ‘ The Ugly Truth’.

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