The new Harry Potter film, Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix, has taken a record-breaking $12m at midnight screenings in the US.
The figure is the most made at the box office for a Wednesday opening midnight run, according to Daily Variety.
The previous record-holder was The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King, which returned around $8m in midnight ticket sales in 2003.
Harry Potter and The Order of the Phoenix opens in the UK on Thursday.
Its early takings were double that of Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire, the previous film in the series, which took $6m at US midnight screenings in 2005.
Harry Potter star Daniel Radcliffe told US TV show Larry King Live that acting in the new movie was "some of the hardest stuff I've had to do to date".
"Each film presents its own very unique challenges so it's sort of like playing a different part every time you come back and do it," he said.
Daniel Radcliffe was chosen to play Harry Potter in The Philosopher's Stone when he was just 10 years.
By the time the Chamber of Secrets was released, Radcliffe, 13, had grown used to the limelight. Radcliffe was 15 when The Prisoner of Azkaban came out.
Following the Goblet of Fire, Radcliffe, then 16, signed up to play Potter in the remaining three films.
Radcliffe, who appears in The Order of the Phoenix, is now 17 and has branched out into theatre.
Long way to go
He added he still had a "long way to go and to develop" as an actor and said: "Hopefully you'll see more of that over the next two films."
The actor said it was not until the third Harry Potter film, the Prisoner of Azkaban, that he knew that acting was something he would "love to do in the long term."
"Before that I was just a kid having fun on a film set, having the time of my life, but not really taking it as seriously as I do now, obviously."
The actor turns 18 on July 23 but he denied he is now too old to play Harry.
"Actors play younger and older than their age all the time. So, I don't think it should make too much of a difference," he said.
On first kiss
Asked about Harry's first kiss in the new movie, he said: "It's a really sweet, tender moment in the film but it wasn't as big a deal as perhaps everybody thought it might be."
He praised Harry Potter author JK Rowling's writing as "just great, purely fantastic story telling".
"I think the reason the films have been so successful is that we're fortunate to have some of the best source material around," he said.
"What Jo's done with these books is quite incredible, I think," added Radcliffe.
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MOVIE REVIEW: New 'Harry Potter' is magic
"For now, at least, Harry Potter, you're on your own."
That is the challenge that lies ahead for dear Harry, in "Harry Potter and the Order of
the Phoenix," the fifth and most intellectually powerful of the film series based on J.K. Rowling's hugely successful books about an English boy and his magical world.
Harry obviously is no longer the boy we first saw in 2001. As Harry, Daniel Radcliffe, who will be 18 on July 23, sports a compact physique, deepening voice and a new sexual awareness. He has his first kiss, a protracted smooch that he dubs "wet."
He also complains that he "feels so angry all the time," and "I cared too much; maybe it's better to go alone," typical of adolescent angst. This is the most overtly realized scenario in the series about Harry's need to surrender childhood's magic for the responsibility of impending adulthood.
On that tumultuous path, made more bittersweet by the great losses he has suffered, Harry is put to the test again and again. He must learn the difference between the light and the dark natures of the various characters in his life, the perilous ways of first love, the truth about his much-idolized deceased father and rediscover the affirming value of friendship.
David Yates, a Brit who has worked in TV and movies, turns out to be an ideal choice to direct the story of Harry's somber and even death-defying foray into adulthood. The movie, written by Michael Goldenberg, has both gravity and a lightness on its feet. Its story is never overwhelmed or transcended by special effects. At two hours and 18 minutes, it speeds by.
The movie starts with Harry being tried for working magic in the land of muggles, then it introduces a prissy fusspot named Mrs. Umbridge (Imelda Staunton), who has been unleashed by dark forces to rid Hogwarts of magic. It's these forces that account for Harry's to-the-death showdown. This particular sequence is directed by Yates with such austerity and intellectual rigor, the films of Ingmar Bergman actually come to mind.
Most of the usual suspects, both good and bad, show up here, some sadly on and off in the blink of an eye, such as Emma Thompson, Maggie Smith, Fiona Shaw and Richard Griffiths.
But the heavyweights have their big moments, either trying to undermine Harry's magic (Ralph Fiennes' Lord Voldemort being the most pernicious) working to nudge him toward enlightenment (Michael Gambon's Dumbledore and Gary Oldman's Sirius) or deftly straddling the gray area between (most especially Alan Rickman's Snape).
And, of course, there are Harry's stalwart pals, Hermione and Ron, played with a rather impressive combination of moxie and compassion by Emma Watson (now 17) and Rupert Grint (19 on Aug. 24), respectively. To see this trio growing in reel and real fashion toward adulthood is to feel a pang of nostalgia and also to feel a sense of pride.
"There are storms ahead," someone warns Harry in "Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix." Indeed there are, but what good company to weather them with.
By ; Asbury Park
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That is the challenge that lies ahead for dear Harry, in "Harry Potter and the Order of
the Phoenix," the fifth and most intellectually powerful of the film series based on J.K. Rowling's hugely successful books about an English boy and his magical world.
Harry obviously is no longer the boy we first saw in 2001. As Harry, Daniel Radcliffe, who will be 18 on July 23, sports a compact physique, deepening voice and a new sexual awareness. He has his first kiss, a protracted smooch that he dubs "wet."
He also complains that he "feels so angry all the time," and "I cared too much; maybe it's better to go alone," typical of adolescent angst. This is the most overtly realized scenario in the series about Harry's need to surrender childhood's magic for the responsibility of impending adulthood.
On that tumultuous path, made more bittersweet by the great losses he has suffered, Harry is put to the test again and again. He must learn the difference between the light and the dark natures of the various characters in his life, the perilous ways of first love, the truth about his much-idolized deceased father and rediscover the affirming value of friendship.
David Yates, a Brit who has worked in TV and movies, turns out to be an ideal choice to direct the story of Harry's somber and even death-defying foray into adulthood. The movie, written by Michael Goldenberg, has both gravity and a lightness on its feet. Its story is never overwhelmed or transcended by special effects. At two hours and 18 minutes, it speeds by.
The movie starts with Harry being tried for working magic in the land of muggles, then it introduces a prissy fusspot named Mrs. Umbridge (Imelda Staunton), who has been unleashed by dark forces to rid Hogwarts of magic. It's these forces that account for Harry's to-the-death showdown. This particular sequence is directed by Yates with such austerity and intellectual rigor, the films of Ingmar Bergman actually come to mind.
Most of the usual suspects, both good and bad, show up here, some sadly on and off in the blink of an eye, such as Emma Thompson, Maggie Smith, Fiona Shaw and Richard Griffiths.
But the heavyweights have their big moments, either trying to undermine Harry's magic (Ralph Fiennes' Lord Voldemort being the most pernicious) working to nudge him toward enlightenment (Michael Gambon's Dumbledore and Gary Oldman's Sirius) or deftly straddling the gray area between (most especially Alan Rickman's Snape).
And, of course, there are Harry's stalwart pals, Hermione and Ron, played with a rather impressive combination of moxie and compassion by Emma Watson (now 17) and Rupert Grint (19 on Aug. 24), respectively. To see this trio growing in reel and real fashion toward adulthood is to feel a pang of nostalgia and also to feel a sense of pride.
"There are storms ahead," someone warns Harry in "Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix." Indeed there are, but what good company to weather them with.
By ; Asbury Park
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