[Larry_OHF]

<font color=skyblue>I copied this from CNN, telling about it's sucess at the box office. I tell you, if the theaters would not have been sold out Saturday...I would have had two ticket sales to add to that total, as well as the dozens of people that were standing in line with me that had to go home when we were told that the entier day was sold out at 11:30am.</font>

LOS ANGELES, California (Reuters) -- "Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets," the second movie based on UK author J.K. Rowling's best-selling books about a boy wizard, grossed an estimated $87.7 million in its first three days of release across North America, Warner Bros. Pictures said Sunday. The film ranks as the third best opening of all time, behind the May 2002 release "Spider-Man" ($114.8 million) and Potter's 2001 predecessor, "Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone" ($90.3 million). The first Harry Potter film, known as "Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone" outside the United States and some Asian territories, went on to gross more than $900 million worldwide, ranking No. 2 on the all-time list behind "Titanic." Exit polling and reviews were stronger for "Chamber of Secrets" than for its predecessor, said Dan Fellman, president of domestic distribution at Warner Bros. These indicated the movie could have more staying power at theaters, he said. Warner Bros., a unit of CNN.com's parent company AOL Time Warner Inc, is in pre-production on a third film, "Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban," which is scheduled for release in 2004. Mexican filmmaker Alfonso Cuaron is directing the new movie, stepping in for Chris Columbus, who directed the first two and will take a producer's role on the third. Harry Potter is played by 13-year-old English schoolboy Daniel Radcliffe. The film's adult stars include Kenneth Branagh, Alan Rickman, Dame Maggie Smith and the late Richard Harris. Last weekend's box office champ, the Eminem drama "8 Mile," slipped to No. 2 with $21.3 million, taking its 10-day total to $86.4 million. It was distributed by Universal Pictures, a unit of Vivendi Universal SA.