Warner Bros. Studios Has Another Big Year At The Box Office
(CNS)- Warner Bros. Studios has had the help of Harry Potter’s broom to fly to a combined box office of more than $4.7 billion last year, the third year in a row that the Burbank-based studio topped $4 billion at the box office.
The company announced Saturday that 2011’s top-grossing film, “Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, Part 2,” helped the firm exceed the $4 billion line globally for three consecutive years, a milestone no other studio has ever achieved.
With a domestic box office gross of more than $1.83 billion, Warner Bros. is the only studio to surpass the billion dollar mark 11 years in a row, announced Jeff Robinov, president of the Warner Bros. Pictures Group.
The last Harry Potter film earned more than $1.33 billion worldwide, to become the highest-grossing film of the year and the third-highest-grossing movie of all time, globally.
Other blockbusters released by the studio, Robinov said, were “The Hangover Part II” ($586 million), “Horrible Bosses” ($215 million), “Final Destination 5” ($164 million), “Crazy, Stupid, Love.” ($148 million), and “Contagion” ($141 million). Its current release, “Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows,” has grossed $286 million worldwide to date.
