Blake Schwendiman's Blog and Blook

As I am an enormous Harry Potter fan, I went to see Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire on Friday. I was very happy with the movie. Of course I've read all the books (multiple times), so I knew what was missing and what was different, but overall I was very happy with the director's decisions about the film.

If you haven't seen it, go tonight. Tell them Blake sent you. They won't have a clue what you're talking about and it won't save you any money.

The great news is that this movie beat Star Wars: Revenge of the Sith in at least one box office category. Harry Potter earned more money on its debut Friday than ROTS did. You can see this at the Box Office Mojo site. It's not the easiest page to read, but you'll see that HP did $39,767,468 on its first Friday while ROTS did just $33,529,613. HP is already number 16 on the 2005 worldwide grosses chart!

Go Harry Potter!