Over the course of three days (including a successful Thursday night) Deathly Hallows took in $125 million, which puts it behind only five movies for the biggest opening weekend of all time. The rest of the HP films are scattered across the top 30, but that's because they mostly opened on Wednesdays, which don't count towards weekend grosses. Obviously, all of the movies that beat Deathly Hallows are sequels to popular franchises:
1. The Dark Knight $158 million
2. Spider-Man 3 $151 million
3. The Twilight Saga: New Moon $143 million
4. Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest $136 million
5. Iron Man 2 $128 million
Expect the sequels to any of these films -- all of which are in the works, including Spider-Man's reboot -- to be a contender for the next number one. (Unless it opens on a Wednesday.) Either way, it looks like sequels and superhero movies and book-adapted young-adult fare will continue unabated for the foreseeable future.

The movie's only competition, as far as new releases went, was The Next Three Days, Russell Crowe's prison breakout movie, which came in fifth for the weekend. Apparently, people were more interested in seeing big-headed supervillains, unstoppable trains and hilarious road trips. And they certainly weren't interested in seeing Skyline, whose attendance dropped significantly since last weekend, most likely due to understandably negative word of mouth.

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