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'Potter' breaks box office mark

LOS ANGELES — The boy wizard has vanquished the dark knight and a band of pirates with a record-setting magic act at both the domestic and international box office.

Warner Bros. estimates that “Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2” took in $168.6 million domestically from Friday to Sunday. That beats the previous best opening weekend of $158.4 million, also held by Warner Bros. for 2008’s Batman blockbuster “The Dark Knight.”

Overseas, the film added $307 million in 59 countries since it began rolling out Wednesday, topping the previous best international debut of $260.4 million set in May by Disney’s “Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides.”

International results for “Deathly Hallows: Part 2” included record openings in Great Britain at $36.6 million and Australia at $26.7 million, according to Warner Bros.

Worldwide, “Deathly Hallows: Part 2” topped $475 million in a matter of days, putting it on course to become the franchise’s first billion-dollar worldwide hit.

• “Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2,” $168.6 million ($307 million international).

• “Transformers: Dark of the Moon,” $21.3 million ($39 million international).

• “Horrible Bosses,” $17.6 million.

• “Zookeeper,” $12.3 million.

• “Cars 2,” $8.3 million ($12.4 million international).

• “Winnie the Pooh,” $8 million.

• “Bad Teacher,” $5.2 million.

• “Larry Crowne,” $2.6 million.

• “Super 8,” $1.92 million.

• “Midnight in Paris,” $1.9 million.

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