Director: David Yates
Run Time: 2 hrs. 30 min.
Rating: PG-13
The Bouw-Man.
At this point, it doesn’t matter what I or anybody else say about the final chapter of the “Harry Potter.” If you have seen all the films up to this time, you’re going to check out the final installment. “Deathly Hollows” represents the eighth “Harry Potter” film, and this one is being done in two parts. I’ve never been a fan of films being broken down into “parts,” but evidently the producers thought it was appropriate in this case. I guess if you’re not a die-hard fan of the series, you could just wait for the DVD release which will most likely happen sometime before the “Part II” release date next summer. Since “Harry Potter” fans are probably second only to “Star Wars” fans in terms of their obsessive behavior, waiting for the DVD is not an option.
There was really no pressure on the “Harry Potter” folks to put together an enticing trailer. Frankly, they could’ve had Daniel Radcliffe just wash his hands for two minutes and there would still be whispers of excitement in theaters from all across the globe. Personally, I like the “Harry Potter” films where they spend the majority of the film at Hogwarts teaching witchcraft and wizardry. It appears you won’t get that with “Deathly Hollows: Part I.” Looks like the viewer is in store for a lot of action here, as Harry Potter and Lord Voldemort finally square off to the death nearly ten years since this whole darn thing began. It will actually be ten years when “Part II” comes out, so onward and upward. Just put them in the ring like Rocky Balboa and Apollo Creed and get it going already.
Prediction.
History has shown that the “Harry Potter” films make more money with a fall (November, sometime around Thanksgiving to be exact) opening, as opposed to a summer (right around the middle of July) opening. The last two (both summer openings) managed less than $78 million during the opening weekend. The last November opening of a “Harry Potter” film (“Goblet of Fire” in 2005), took home over $102 million during weekend number one. I’m thinking this one will come in somewhere in between, so let’s say an even $90 million for “Deathly Hallows: Part I.”
Opening Weekend Gross: $90 Million
Noodles.
As a man that read the entire Harry Potter series in one month, to say that I'm looking forward to this movie would be an understatement. I was a fan of this series long before I spent my 30 day journey into the world of Harry, and with each installment the series has gotten better. Granted each movie left more and more of the book's more compelling sub-plots on the cutting room floor, but they have all felt like a masterful creative work.
Deathly Hallows was my favorite book of all 7 and seeing that they took the time to break the movie into two parts, I can only hope that all of the wonderful elements of the story will remain. My only criticism of the last film, 'Half Blood Prince' was that they cut away too much of the background that the book did on Voldemort. I'm actually amazed that people that haven't read the story like it as much as they do, but who cares as long as they made another.
Prediction.
I'm going out on a limb for this one and declaring Harry Potter will kick the crap out of every other movie opening in months. The highest opening weekend on record is for 'Goblet of Fire' at $102M, so I'm predicting just North of that figure. Expelliarmus!
Opening Weekend: Gross: $105 Million
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