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 on 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. Read Full : Read Full: Harry Potter beats Batman |Harry Potter|Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2|box office | The New Indian Express
