MUMBAI: Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince, the latest adventure of the teen wizard, has raked in $22.2 million in the US from midnight screenings, distributor Warner Brothers declared.
The sixth instalment in the Harry Potter franchise also topped this year‘s biggest hit Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen, which pulled in $16 million from midnight screenings on 24 June, its first day of release.
Incidentally, the latest Harry Potter film raked in $10 million more from midnight screenings than Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix did in 2007.
The two-year lag, since Order of the Phoenix, was the longest that fans have had to wait for a new Harry Potter film since the first film was released in 2001.
Warner had originally planned to release Half-Blood Prince last November but delayed the release to 2009 in order to take advantage of an open weekend in Hollywood‘s busy summer schedule.
The new movie has Harry (Daniel Radcliffe) trying to unravel a hidden memory from one of his teachers who holds key information about the wizard world‘s darkest enemy, Lord Voldemort.
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