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High School Musical 3: Senior Year (2008)
Budget: $11M
Opening: $42M
Gross: $84M
The High School Musical juggernaut started out on cable and became a teen craze. This third film was actually the first theatrical release in the series about singing and dancing high schoolers. Zac Efron and Vanessa Hudgens play the toothy leads who also have a relationship in real life. Ashley Tisdale and Corbin Bleu are the other performers to break out of this series.
Hannah Montana/Miley Cyrus: The Best of Both Worlds Concert Tour (2008)
Budget: N/A
Opening: $31M
Gross: $65M
What can anyone say about Hannah Montana other than her popularity is unprecedented. Miley Cyrus, the daughter of country-western singer Billy Ray Cyrus originated this character on the Disney channel. Hannah is a young girl who moves to Malibu and tries her best to fit in. She lives a dual life as a popular pop star, what every kid might dream of. This film brought her sold out concert to theaters where youngsters could get a chance to see the magic.
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Jumper (2008)
Budget: $85M
Opening: $27M
Gross: $80M
Abandoned by his mother at the age of five, young David, played by Hayden Christensen has a hard time in a small Michigan town. When he discovers a power that can transport him anywhere in the world, he jets to NYC and robs a bank. His move attracts the attentions of a band of ruthless hunters who come after him. Rachel Bilson plays his love interest Millie.
Covenant (2006)
Budget: N/A
Opening: $8M
Gross: $23M
Steven Strait, Sebastian Stan, Chace Crawford and Taylor Kitch play four men who are part of a supernatural legacy. Everything they stand for is threatened when they have to battle a fifth power, which was thought to be dead. Their rivalries and jealousies also threaten to destroy them.
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Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone (2001)
Budget: $125M
Opening: $90M
Gross: $317M
This first book started the now unparalleled popularity of J.K. Rowling's imaginative novel series. Little Harry Potter is living with his evil muggles family when word comes that he is to attend the Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry because he has magical powers. At his new school, Harry learns about his heroic deceased parents and the evil wizard Voldemort who wants him dead.
Interview With a Vampire (2004)
Budget: $60M
Opening: $36M
Gross: $105M
Brad Pitt does a sit down interview with Christian Slater. Not as an actor but as one of the world's few vampires. The first novel in Anne Rice' vampire chronicles is given by Vampire Louis' point of view but is really about Vampire Lestat. Tom Cruise made mincemeat out of Rice's multi-layered Lestat. Kirsten Dunst stood out the little Vampire Claudia who was the love of Louis' life.
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