It’s not as badly managed as it is magically managed: reissue of Warner Bros.’s Harry Potter And The Sorcerer’s Stone has become the second film in the franchise to cross $ 1B worldwide. The film, originally released in 2001, counts a worldwide cume of $ 1,001,260,000 after debuting in a remastered 4K 3D version in China this weekend. The entire series now has $ 7.74B gross.
When the 19-year-old HP1 Released last Friday in the Middle Kingdom, it set a new one-day gross record in the post-COVID era, and did so again on Saturday. In the three-day session, it drew muggles to the tune of $ 13.6M on 16,000 screens (including $ 2.1M from 594 IMAX screens). Due to Tuesday night local time, the film still played strongly behind local epic The Eight Hundred.
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Earlier on, in what feels like a lifetime ago amid the uncertainty of the coronavirus crisis, Hollywood studios were approached to bring catalog films back to China as it worked to get back on its feet come after they have been shut down since the Lunar New Year. The WB Weibo post at the moment announced exactly, “Magic is coming!” It finally took some time for Harry Potter, like any movie, to open in a major way, but characters are positive.
The Potter films have grown in popularity in China as the market expands. Harry Potter And The Deathly Hallows: Part II became the series’ biggest size in 2011 at $ 61M – a time when the Middle Kingdom was barely the size it had grown out of, but was the film’s 5th largest offshore hub.
Andrew Cripps, President, International Distribution, Warner Bros. Pictures, said today, ‘We are pleased to see Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone enjoy a new generation of audiences. The popularity of the film among moviegoers in China, who are discovering it for the first time, proves that the appeal of these stories is truly timeless and universal. ”
The film was directed by Chris Columbus from a play by Steve Kloves, based on JK Rowling’s favorite novel. David Heyman produced with Columbus, Mark Radcliffe, Michael Barnathan and Duncan Henderson serving as executive producers.
