What are 10 Things Parents should know about the new Harry Potter movie Half Blood Prince?
Potter, Granger and Weasley, oh my! Audiences across the world joined these three friends for “Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince” in theaters last week for the largest midnight opening show in history, bringing in around $22 million to the box office. “It completely sold out,” said advertising senior Corey Ikerd, Rave Motion Pictures assistant and marketing manager. “We sold 3,000 tickets. We sold every seat in the building. It was bigger here than last year with the ‘Dark Knight,’ which was explosive for us.” Ikerd said the theater has 3,200 seats in all. Ikerd said the midnight opening of the sixth Harry Potter movie brought in so much business that the compressors for the soft drink machines broke, and they could no longer serve soft drinks. Brian Rutherford, Rave Motion Pictures manager, said the theater sold 2,300 seats on Friday, 2,500 seats on Saturday and 1,800 seats on Sunday. He said there is usually a 45 to 50 percent drop in seats sold between the first and second week
