In this film publicity image released by Warner Bros., Bonnie Wright as Ginny Weasley, left, and Daniel Radcliffe as Harry Potter are shown in a scene from "Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince." (AP Photo/Warner Bros.)
Harry Potter has returned with some princely returns at the box office.
The new big-screen adventure “Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince” took in $79.5 million domestically over opening weekend and $159.7 million since debuting last Wednesday.
That’s the second-highest start ever for a movie premiering on Wednesday, trailing the $200 million five-day opening for last month’s “Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen.”
The sixth movie about the young wizard came in $20 million ahead of the last movie, “Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix,” which grossed $139.7 million in its first five days two years ago.
Copyright 2009 The Associated Press.
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