'GOF' Passes 'POA' at the Box Office
 

'Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire' has now surpassed 'Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban' in U.S. box office receipts. After only 5 weeks in the theaters, GOF has grossed $252.5 million, whereas POA took in $249.5 million after it's 17 weeks in theaters. In fact, GOF is on it's way to passing the current HP movie leader Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets which grossed $261.9 million during it's run time.

Worldwide, GOF has made $707.9 million and should also overtake POA, which made $789.7 million in worldwide receipts.


You may view HP box office figures here.

Thanks to HPANA for the tip!

wouhou !!!! awsome !!!! thats totally great news !!

First to post !! :woot:

Whoa! So much money! I hopey they surpase because GoF is way better than PoA!

great news waooooooooooo

Woohoo!!! Rake in that cash!!! :D

Oooh.. Why am I not surprised?? I mean.. it really is the best one of all four.

Wow that is really great! I knew this would happen.

That's wicked!! Go Goblet!! Wow! It just keeps getting better doesn't it!! I love it!! I'm gonna see it again in the new year! Yay!

Interesting. I think since Cos was bad it lessened the attendance for PoA, but then PoA was awesome it picked up again.

I didn't think CoS was bad. I loved it! I thought that although PoA is a great movie, it's the worst out of the three.

sweet! i thought it was a better film

it's not much of a surprise.It was rather obvious. i knew all along that this would happen...now i keep my fingers crossed hoping that GOF will surpass PS/SS, not to mention Titanic :sorcerer: :sorcerer: :sorcerer:

Awesome!!!!!!!!!!

Yeah that's it. In a series, the predecessor, for a lot of people, determines whether they see the sequel. Ergo the takings are sometimes a better reflection of what people thought of the previous film. After PS, the takings declined with CoS, the same with PoA, and now they're picking up. Basically what it comes down to is if people liked PoA they're more inclined to return to cinemas for GoF.

Takings are less reflective of the quality of the current film simply because you don't see a film because you know it's good, cause you don't know what it's going to be like until you see it. Money doesn't make a film good, it just shows how many people went to see it. Loads of people could see it but it doesn't mean they come out liking it. If a film puts less bums in seats than previous films it's more likely down to people not liking what came before and deciding that they wouldn't see the next one.

We'll get a better idea of GoF's 'success' when OotP is released, if people choose to return to the cinema again because they liked its predecessor. The first film did so well simply because it was the first, people had nothing to compare it to or judge it against but then takings fell with CoS because of PS and so on and so forth.

And I agree CoS is the 'worst' imo.

thats cool !

Simple. GOF RULZ!!!!

wow thats great!!!

cool!

yes i think so too....

but abt GoF.....yay...........I knew it'd cross the PoA figures

Awesome, but let's keep in mind that PoA was released at the wrong moment (summer holidays), it's always more quite then when a film is released around xmas...

that's really awesome! i think i'll help the film with making money and go and see it again ... yes ...

Thats great.

It's art...not commerce you capitalist pigs. And Rupert is what I call some fine art
 

It should be about the art not the money *sighs* I mean...HELLO, Rupert is a masterpiece...is it any wonder that GoF is making so much money...LOL

Then there's Krum, now there's a piece of work...and Cedric...OMG!

LOL

This is good...they should be greenlighting the 6th and 7th movies after this no? Keep the trio WB.

*crying* How canyou say that...Rupert was in it. *crying*