Final instalment in the film series of JK Rowling’s best-selling books, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part Two, is already breaking box office records across the Atlantic and is set to do the same in the UK.
Vue cinema in Cardiff’s City Centre experienced some of its busiest days yet since the film’s release on Friday, with the five screens sold-out.
Marketing manager Andrew Millar said that the cinema marked the release of the final schoolboy wizard movie with a double-bill that included a midnight showing of the new movie.
He said: “We had people in the cinema for about six hours, these were the fans that have followed the whole series from the beginning, so they’re not teenagers anymore. They are a similar crowd to Twilight.
“But at all the other showings we’ve had a broad spectrum of ages, we’ve had in school groups, families, teenagers.
Think we are going to be busy for at least another five or six weeks with Harry Potter, because as well as the die-hard fans, there are the people who want to see it, who don’t want to be in a packed out cinema.
For the college-bound teens who crowded the theaters this weekend, Harry Potter has been the erstwhile friend they grew up with. The fact that the film's cast grew up in real time made fans connect with J.K. Rowling's novels all the more.
Josh Robinson, 18, who stood in line at the Chino Hills Harkins Theatres for 15 hours to see the midnight show, read the first Harry Potter book when he was just 4. Robinson's mother had purchased the book on a trip to England, a year before it was published in the United States.
"I'm not sure if I understood it all, but I thought it was real," Robinson said.
"So you thought once you turned 11, you'd get a letter?" asked his friend Katelynn Richmond, 18
"Yeah, I thought that was a possibility," Robinson said.
For Robinson, Harry Potter was like Santa Claus or the Easter Bunny. Except Robinson never grew out of Harry Potter.
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