Comic book hero Captain America proved stronger than Harry Potter in this weekend’s box office battle, earning $65 million, industry numbers showed.
Paramount’s Captain America: The First Avenger easily topped the $47.4 million that Harry Potter and the Deathly Hollows: Part 2 raked in during its second week at the box office as it dropped to number two, industry tracker Exhibitor Relations reported.
The eighth and final episode about the boy wizard has raked in some $273 million total since its smash release in early July.
Deathly Hallows records include one for single-day ticket sales ($92.1 million) and midnight premiere sales ($43.5 million), according to the box-office tracker.
In third place was the romantic comedy Friends with Benefits starring Justin Timberlake and Mila Kunis, with $18.6 million.
Fourth went to Transformers: Dark of the Moon, with $12 million, while the dark comedy Horrible Bosses, came in fifth with $11.8 million in receipts.
In sixth place was Zookeeper, which netted $8.7 million, according to Exhibitor Relations.
Disney’s Cars 2 brought in $5.6 million for seventh place, while another of its animated films, nie the Pooh was eighth with $5.1 million.
Bad Teacher held ninth place this weekend with $2.6 million, while Woody Allen’s Midnight in Paris held onto the 10th spot for a second consecutive week, earning $1.8 million.