Eight movies, eight number one openings.  That’s the magical record for the Harry Potter franchise.

Add to it a weekend debut of $168.5 million and you’ve got not only the biggest opening of the year but the biggest opening weekend of all time.

In a surprise to no one, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, Part 2 topped the box-office.  The film was going to make money, but it was a question of how much.  The answer–a whole lot.

And it appears audiences were only going to see Potter and little else.  Transformers: Dark of the Moon was second, a very distant second. The film took in $21.2 million in its third weekend.

Third place went to Horrible Bosses with $17.6 million and fourth went to Zookeeper with $12.3 million.  Cars 2 rounded out the top five with $8.3 million, just ahead of another Disney animated opening, the new Winnie the Pooh with $8 million.