Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix, the fifth film about the boy wizard, set a new British box office opening record over the weekend, taking 16.4 million pounds ($33 million), Screen International said yesterday.
Including Thursday's previews, it was the highest-ever four-day weekend take.
Taken over just Friday to Sunday it took 13.0 million, a figure which has only ever been beaten by one other film - its predecessor Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire, in November 2005.
Globally, the film has taken $330 million in its initial release, according to estimates from its Warner Bros studio.
It knocked Shrek the Third, last week's UK chart-topper, into second place after two weeks at number one while Die Hard 4.0, the fourth testosterone-fuelled outing for Bruce Willis' maverick detective John McClane, was down one at three.
Source: China Daily/agencies
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