By: Neala Johnson
- From: National Features
- December 28, 2011 7:00PM
British actor Daniel Radcliffe (Harry Potter) at the world premiere of Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows - Part 2. Picture: Carl Court. Source: Supplied
JUST as surely as the boy wizard was always going to defeat the evil Voldemort, Harry Potter has beaten all comers at the Australian box office in 2011.
In Potter's wake were two more sequels - Transformers: Dark of the Moon with $37.3 million and The Hangover Part II with $32.6 million. In fact, seven out of the 10 highest grossing films of the year were sequels or parts in a franchise.
Bucking the trend were Bridesmaids, the female-led comedy coming in sixth with $27.1 million, Disney's Rapunzel animation Tangled with $22.2 million and the little Aussie film that could, Red Dog with $21.4 million.
Red Dog is the first local film to be among the year's biggest since Baz Luhrmann's Australia was released in 2008. The crowd-pleasing tale is now the eighth biggest Australian film of all time.
Had it been released during this calendar year, last year's big Boxing Day - and Oscar-winning - success story The King's Speech would also have landed high on the chart. It earned around $27 million of its $30.8 million total gross during 2011.
The next-best performers of 2011 to just miss the cut include The Smurfs ($19.8 million), Kung Fu Panda 2 ($19.4 million) and Thor ($18.9 million).
A Potter film also topped our year-end box office in 2007 and 2009.
The official end of year figures will be released in mid-January.
Top 10 highest grossing films of 2011 in Australia
1. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2 - $52.5 million
2. Transformers: Dark of the Moon - $37.3 million
3. The Hangover Part II - $32.6 million
4. The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn - Part 1 - $28.5 million
5. Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides - $27.2 million
6. Bridesmaids - $27.1 million
7. Fast & Furious 5 - $25.2 million
8. Tangled - $22.2 million
9. Red Dog - $21.4 million
10. Cars 2 - $20.1 million
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