


2 adds a giant battle due to audience expectations. Lord of the Rings: Return of the King has many giant battle sequences. The one at the end of Avengers: Endgame has become iconic for the portals opening and every MCU hero coming through, and the battle featuring a variety of cool moments. Grand epic finales tend to feature big battle scenes. It set the opening weekend record at the time with $169 million and went on to gross $1.342 billion worldwide making it the highest grossing film of 2011, the highest grossing film in the Harry Potter franchise, and to this day is still the highest grossing film from Warner Bros. For an audience who spent 10 years invested in the Harry Potter series and likely grew up with the films, this was more than a big summer movie but a cinematic event. 2 was highly anticipated, as it was one of the few cases where the audience going into the movie know it was going to be the final entry. The release of Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Pt. 1 set for release on November 19, 2010, and the final film, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Pt. This meant that the film's potential could be massive, and the studio eventually decided to split the final book into two parts, with Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Pt.

The book itself was a huge deal and to this day still holds the Guinness World Record for most books sold in 24 hours. The final book, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows was released in July 2007 around the same time the fifth movie Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix hit theaters.
