''Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows – Part 1'' is a 2010
fantasy film
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directed by
David Yates from a screenplay by
Steve Kloves.
The film is the
first of two cinematic parts based on the 2007 novel ''
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows
''Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows'' is a fantasy novel written by British author J. K. Rowling. It is the seventh and final novel in the ''Harry Potter'' series. It was released on 21 July 2007 in the United Kingdom by Bloomsbury Publish ...
'' by
J. K. Rowling. It is the
sequel
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to ''
Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince'' (2009) and the seventh instalment in the
''Harry Potter'' film series. The film stars
Daniel Radcliffe as
Harry Potter, with
Rupert Grint and
Emma Watson, respectively, reprising roles as Harry's best friends
Ron Weasley and
Hermione Granger. The story follows Harry Potter, who has been asked by
Dumbledore to find and destroy
Lord Voldemort
Lord Voldemort ( , in the films) is a fictional character and the main antagonist in the ''Harry Potter'' series of novels by J. K. Rowling. He first appears in ''Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone'' (1997) and returns either in pers ...
's secret to immortality – the
Horcruxes.
Filming began on 19 February 2009 and was completed on 12 June 2010.
It was released in 2D cinemas and
IMAX
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formats in the United Kingdom and in the United States on 19 November 2010, by
Warner Bros. Pictures.
The film received positive reviews with critics praising the performances, cinematography, visual effects and musical score.
In the film's worldwide opening weekend, ''Part 1'' grossed $330 million, the third-highest in the series, and the highest opening of 2010, as well as the eighth-highest of all time. With a worldwide gross of $960 million, ''Part 1'' became the
third-highest-grossing film of 2010, the
tenth highest-grossing film of all time at the time and the third-highest-grossing ''Harry Potter'' film in terms of worldwide totals. The film was nominated for many awards, including the
Academy Award
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for
Best Art Direction and
Best Visual Effects.
The film was followed by the concluding entry, ''
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows – Part 2'' in 2011.
Plot
At
Malfoy Manor,
Severus Snape meets with
Lord Voldemort
Lord Voldemort ( , in the films) is a fictional character and the main antagonist in the ''Harry Potter'' series of novels by J. K. Rowling. He first appears in ''Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone'' (1997) and returns either in pers ...
and his
Death Eaters. He reports that the
Order of the Phoenix will move
Harry Potter, no longer under his mother's protective spell, to a safe location. Voldemort confiscates
Lucius Malfoy's wand; his own is powerless against Harry because it and Harry's wand are "brothers" by sharing the same phoenix feather core. During the move, Harry and the Order are attacked by Voldemort and the Death Eaters, killing Hedwig and
Mad-Eye Moody
The Order of the Phoenix is a fictional organisation in the ''Harry Potter'' series of novels by J. K. Rowling. Founded by Albus Dumbledore to fight Lord Voldemort and his Death Eaters, the Order lends its name to the fifth book of the series, ' ...
in the process.
During preparations for
Bill Weasley and
Fleur Delacour's wedding, the new Minister for Magic
Rufus Scrimgeour arrives. He informs Harry,
Ron, and
Hermione that
Albus Dumbledore left each a bequest: Ron a
Deluminator, Hermione a copy of ''
The Tales of Beedle the Bard'', and Harry the
Golden Snitch he caught in his first
Quidditch match. Dumbledore also bequeathed the
Sword of Gryffindor to Harry, but it has gone missing.
News arrives during the wedding that the Ministry has fallen and Scrimgeour is dead. Death Eaters attack, and Harry, Ron, and Hermione escape to
Number 12, Grimmauld Place. While there, Ron realises that Sirius' brother, Regulus Black, is the R.A.B. who stole
Salazar Slytherin's locket from Voldemort. Local thief
Mundungus Fletcher later sold it to
Dolores Umbridge. Harry, Ron, and Hermione infiltrate the Ministry and recover the locket, but Death Eaters chase them in a chaotic exit. Hermione
disapparates them to a forest. Ron is injured. The trio starts their journey to discover and destroy all of Voldemort's
Horcruxes, beginning with the locket.
Attempts to destroy the locket fail. Hermione deduces that Gryffindor's sword can destroy Horcruxes because it is impregnated with
basilisk
In European bestiary, bestiaries and legends, a basilisk ( or ) is a legendary reptile reputed to be a Serpent symbolism, serpent king, who causes death to those who look into its eyes. According to the ''Natural History (Pliny), Naturalis Histo ...
venom. Ron, affected by the dark locket, is frustrated with their slow progress and irrationally jealous of Harry and Hermione. He argues with Harry before leaving. When Harry touches the Snitch to his lips, it reveals a cryptic message: "I open at the close." Hermione notices a strange symbol drawn in ''Beedle the Bard'' that is identical to one
Luna Lovegood's father
Xenophilius wears.
Harry and Hermione search for the sword in
Godric's Hollow and encounter the same strange symbol in a cemetery. Elderly historian
Bathilda Bagshot invites them in her cottage, where they find a photo of the young man in Harry's dream who stole a wand from wandmaker
Gregorovitch. Bathilda morphs into Voldemort's snake
Nagini and attacks Harry. Hermione disapparates them to safety, but her rebounding spell accidentally destroys Harry's wand. Hermione identifies the man in the photo as dark wizard
Gellert Grindelwald. That night, a doe
patronus leads Harry to a frozen pond where Gryffindor's sword lies on the bottom. Harry dives into the frigid water, but the locket around his neck tightens, strangling him. Ron appears, retrieves the sword, and saves Harry. They destroy the locket Horcrux with the sword. Ron explains that the Deluminator led him to their location.
Harry, Ron, and Hermione visit Xenophilius Lovegood and learn the symbol represents the
Deathly Hallows. Many years before, three brothers each received a prize that evades Death: the
Resurrection Stone, the
Cloak of Invisibility, and the
Elder Wand, the most powerful wand known. Possessing all three makes one the Master of Death. Xenophilius secretly summons the Death Eaters, hoping to exchange Harry for a kidnapped Luna. The three escape, but Snatchers capture them. During a vision, Harry sees an elderly Grindelwald telling Voldemort that the Elder Wand is buried with Dumbledore.
At
Malfoy Manor,
Bellatrix Lestrange sees a Snatcher with Gryffindor's sword that she believed was in her
Gringotts vault. Harry and Ron are locked into the cellar, where they encounter Luna,
Ollivander, and
Griphook. Upstairs, Bellatrix tortures Hermione. Harry begs for help using a mirror shard in which he believes he glimpsed Dumbledore;
Dobby appears in response and helps save everyone while Harry grabs their captured wands from
Draco Malfoy. As they disapparate, Bellatrix throws a knife, and Dobby is fatally wounded, dying in Harry's arms. Harry buries him near Bill and Fleur's
seaside cottage, an Order safe house. Meanwhile, Voldemort retrieves the Elder Wand from Dumbledore's tomb.
Cast
*
Daniel Radcliffe as
Harry Potter: A 17-year-old
wizard.
*
Rupert Grint as
Ron Weasley: A young wizard and one of Harry's best friends and allies.
*
Emma Watson as
Hermione Granger: A young witch and one of Harry's best friends and Ron's love interest.
*
Robbie Coltrane
Anthony Robert McMillan (30 March 195014 October 2022), known professionally as Robbie Coltrane, was a Scottish actor. He gained worldwide recognition in the 2000s for playing Rubeus Hagrid in the ''Harry Potter'' film series. He was appointe ...
as
Rubeus Hagrid: Harry's half-giant friend, and
gamekeeper at
Hogwarts.
*
Warwick Davis as
Griphook: A
goblin
A goblin is a small, grotesque, monster, monstrous humanoid creature that appears in the folklore of multiple European cultures. First attested in stories from the Middle Ages, they are ascribed conflicting abilities, temperaments, and appearan ...
and former employee at
Gringotts Bank. Davis replaced
Verne Troyer, who portrayed the character physically in the first film, though Davis had dubbed Griphook's lines.
*
Ralph Fiennes as
Lord Voldemort
Lord Voldemort ( , in the films) is a fictional character and the main antagonist in the ''Harry Potter'' series of novels by J. K. Rowling. He first appears in ''Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone'' (1997) and returns either in pers ...
: An evil power-hungry wizard, and the leader of the Death Eaters.
*
Michael Gambon
Sir Michael John Gambon (; 19 October 1940 – 27 September 2023) was an Irish-English actor. Gambon started his acting career with Laurence Olivier as one of the original members of the Royal National Theatre. Over his six-decade-long career ...
as Professor
Albus Dumbledore: Former headmaster of
Hogwarts killed by
Severus Snape in the
previous film.
*
Brendan Gleeson as
Alastor 'Mad-Eye' Moody: A member of the
Order of the Phoenix.
*
Richard Griffiths as
Vernon Dursley: Harry's Muggle uncle.
*
John Hurt as
Garrick Ollivander: A wandmaker abducted by the Death Eaters.
*
Jason Isaacs as
Lucius Malfoy:
Draco Malfoy's father and a disgraced Death Eater.
*
Alan Rickman as Professor
Severus Snape: A double agent to the Death Eaters and the new headmaster of
Hogwarts.
*
Fiona Shaw as
Petunia Dursley: Harry's Muggle aunt.
*
Timothy Spall as
Peter Pettigrew/
Wormtail: The Death Eater who betrayed Harry's parents to Voldemort.
*
Imelda Staunton as
Dolores Umbridge: Senior Undersecretary to the Minister for Magic and Head of the Muggle-born Registration Commission.
*
David Thewlis as
Remus Lupin: A member of the
Order of the Phoenix and a former teacher at
Hogwarts.
*
Julie Walters as
Molly Weasley: The Weasley matriarch and a mother figure to Harry.
*
Toby Jones as
Dobby: The house elf Harry saved from the Malfoy family.
*
Helena Bonham Carter as
Bellatrix Lestrange: A
Death Eater
The Death Eaters are an extremist group from the ''Harry Potter'' series, led by the dark wizard Lord Voldemort. They follow a strict belief in blood purity, thinking that only pure-blood wizards should have power over the wizarding world. Bec ...
,
Sirius Black's insane cousin and murderer, and the aunt of
Draco.
The film also features
Bonnie Wright as
Ginny Weasley, Ron's sister and Harry's love interest;
Matthew Lewis as
Neville Longbottom, one of Harry's friends;
Evanna Lynch as
Luna Lovegood; another one of Harry's friends;
Tom Felton as
Draco Malfoy, Lucius Malfoy's son and a Death Eater; and
Helen McCrory as
Narcissa Malfoy, Draco's mother and Bellatrix's sister.
Mark Williams,
James and Oliver Phelps,
Domhnall Gleeson and
Clémence Poésy appear as members of the
Weasley family and the Order of the Phoenix
Arthur Weasley, twins
Fred and George Weasley,
Bill Weasley and
Fleur Delacour, respectively.
Natalia Tena,
George Harris and
Andy Linden appear as members of the Order of the Phoenix
Nymphadora Tonks,
Kingsley Shacklebolt and
Mundungus Fletcher, respectively.
Other cast members include
Bill Nighy as
Minister for Magic Rufus Scrimgeour;
Rhys Ifans as Luna's eccentric father
Xenophilius Lovegood;
Hazel Douglas as Voldemort's familiar snake
Nagini, who puppeteers the corpse of
Bathilda Bagshot;
David Ryall as Albus Dumbledore's old schoolfriend
Elphias Doge;
Frances de la Tour as head of Beauxbatons Madame Maxime;
Guy Henry as
Pius Thicknesse, a puppet Minister of Magic installed by Voldemort;
Peter Mullan as
Corban Yaxley, a Death Eater at the Ministry of Magic; and
Carolyn Pickles as
Charity Burbage, the Muggle Studies teacher at Hogwarts, tortured and killed by Voldemort.
Production
''Part 1'' was filmed
back-to-back with ''
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows – Part 2'' from 19 February 2009 to 12 June 2010. Director
David Yates, who shot the film alongside
director of photography Eduardo Serra, described Part 1 as "quite real"; a "
road movie
A road movie is a film genre, genre of film in which the main characters leave home on a road trip, typically altering the perspective from their everyday lives. Road movies often depict travel in the hinterlands, with the films exploring the the ...
" that's "almost like a
vérité documentary".
Originally set for a single theatrical release, the idea to split the book into two parts was suggested by executive producer
Lionel Wigram due to what
David Heyman called "creative imperative". Heyman initially responded negatively to the idea, but Wigram asked, "No, David. How are we going to do it?". After rereading the book and discussing it with screenwriter
Steve Kloves, he agreed with the division.
The production filmed at the
Dartford Crossing for the dramatic chase where Harry and Hagrid are being ambushed by Death Eaters.
Sets
Stuart Craig, set designer for all of the previous ''Harry Potter'' films, returned for the final two parts. He said, "We made a very different kind of film, which was shot a great deal on location. We travelled quite far, we built sets, and they spend a lot of time in a forest," he explained. "We built forest sets and integrated them into the real forests, so there were challenges there, as you might imagine." Craig was ultimately nominated for an
Academy Award
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for his work on ''Part 1''.
On the wedding tent for Bill and Fleur's wedding in ''Part 1'', Craig commented on his aim to "rather than make it an extension of the house, which is rather eccentric, homemade, we decided to make it rather elegant . . . It's lined with silk and beautiful, floating candelabra. So it's a nice contrast with the house." For the Ministry of Magic set, he noted, "This is an underground world; this is a ministry, so we went to the real ministries, the
Muggle ministries –
Whitehall, in London – and decided that our magical ministry was kind of a parallel universe to these real ministries."
Craig also commented on his design of Malfoy Manor, saying that it is "a very strong architectural set. The exterior is based on an Elizabethan house here in this country called
Hardwick Hall and it has massive windows, and these windows are kind of blinded out. The shutters are drawn so they are like blind windows and they have a real kind of presence, an ominous presence, so that gave us the basis for a good exterior. There's an extraordinary magical roof that's added and surrounded by forest which isn't there in reality, but again is one of the devices to make it more threatening and mysterious."
Costumes
The costumes for ''Part 1'' were designed by
Jany Temime, who has been the costume designer on ''Harry Potter'' productions since ''
Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban'' (2004).
Temime was involved in a controversy regarding her work on Fleur Delacour's wedding dress. She was accused of copying the design from a similar dress from
Alexander McQueen's Fall 2008 collection. Temime spoke about the dress, saying that she "wanted it to be a witch wedding dress but not a Halloween dress. The dress is white but it needed to have something fantastic to it. So there is the phoenix
otif the bird, which is a symbol of love in a way because there is rebirth, love never dies, it is born again."
Visual effects

After working on every film since ''Prisoner of Azkaban'',
Double Negative was asked to provide
visual effects
Visual effects (sometimes abbreviated as VFX) is the process by which imagery is created or manipulated outside the context of
a live-action shot in filmmaking and video production.
The integration of live-action footage and other live-action fo ...
for the final instalments of the story, in ''Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows – Parts 1'' and ''2''. Working closely with the film's VFX Supervisor, Tim Burke, the team was led by VFX Supervisor, David Vickery and VFX Producer Charlotte Loughlane. The main team also included 3D Supervisor, Rick Leary and 2D Supervisor, Sean Stranks.
Double Negative's work for ''Part 1'' included the corroding Warner Brothers logo and extensive environment extensions of the Burrows and its surrounds. Additional environment work was completed on Xenophilius Lovegood's home, extending it in 3D and culminating in the Death Eaters' attack. Double Negative also advanced the Death Eaters' smoke effects, with the introduction of the 'flayed man' stage in between their smokey, fluid, flying state and their live-action presence upon landing. Other work included the Patronus charm that interrupts the wedding party to inform the guests that Voldemort has taken over the Ministry of Magic.
The visual-effects company
Framestore produced most of the creature CGI, as in previous films, as well as the animated ''
Tale of the Three Brothers'' sequence, which was directed and designed by
Ben Hibon.
Music
Composer
Nicholas Hooper, who scored ''Order of the Phoenix'' and ''Half-Blood Prince'', did not return for ''Deathly Hallows''. Instead,
Alexandre Desplat was hired to compose the score for ''
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows – Part 1''. The film also featured the song "O Children" by
Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds.
Marketing
The first official picture from the first film was released on 1 December 2009, showing Harry, Ron and Hermione in a London street. A clip was officially released on 8 December 2009 with the release of ''
Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince'' on Blu-ray and DVD. At the 2010
ShoWest convention,
Alan F. Horn premiered unfinished footage from both films. The
2010 MTV Movie Awards premiered more footage from ''Deathly Hallows''. Following this was the release of the official teaser poster, which shows the release date of both ''Part 1'' and ''Part 2'' and a destroyed Hogwarts castle. ABC Family broadcast interviews and additional scenes from both parts during their ''Harry Potter'' weekend, which began on 8 July 2010. A two-minute trailer for the film was released worldwide on 22 September 2010.
On 29 September 2010, three character posters for ''Part 1'' of Harry, Ron, and Hermione were released by
Yahoo! Movies. The following day, a ''Part 1'' cinema poster was released featuring the trio on the run in a forest. The theatrical poster has the tagline "Nowhere is safe", and another version with no credits has the tagline "The end begins". Various other character posters for Part 1 were released on 6 October 2010, featuring Harry, Ron, Hermione, Lord Voldemort, Bellatrix Lestrange, Severus Snape and Fenrir Greyback. On 12 October, four new character posters were released. The posters are set to the theme of "Trust no one" and "The hunt begins".
On 15 October 2010, tickets began selling on
Fandango
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for the US release of ''Part 1'', and on 19 October, a 50-second clip featuring never-before-seen footage was aired at the
2010 Scream Awards. On 16 October, the second TV spot was released on
Cartoon Network
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during a premiere of ''
Scooby-Doo! Curse of the Lake Monster''. On 25 October 2010, Yahoo! Movies released an exclusive featurette of the film. On 30 October 2010, ''
Entertainment Weekly
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'' released two new featurettes titled "Horcruxes" and "The Story", featuring a large amount of never-before-seen footage. On the same day, the Warner Bros. ''Harry Potter'' website was updated to reveal twelve miniature clips from the film.
On 3 November 2010, the ''
Los Angeles Times
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'' released an extended clip of Harry leaving the Burrow to find the Horcruxes, titled "No One Else Is Going to Die for Me". On 4 November, a new clip was released from the ''Harry Potter'' Facebook page, titled "The Seven Potters". Two more clips were released over the next two days, including a scene depicting a café attack and another taking place in
Malfoy Manor.
Release
Theatrical
On 26 August 2010, director
David Yates, producers David Heyman and
David Barron, and with Warner Bros. president
Alan F. Horn attended a
test screening for ''Deathly Hallows – Part 1'' in Chicago. The unfinished film gained rave reviews from test screeners, some of whom labelled it "amazing and dark" and "the most perfect ''Harry Potter'' film". Others expressed that the film faithfully adapted the novel, which led to an inheritance of the "book's own problems".
Warner Bros. Pictures was originally going to release Part 1 of ''Deathly Hallows'' in 2D and
3D formats. On 8 October 2010, it was announced that plans for a 3D version of ''Part 1'' had been scrapped. "Warner Bros. Pictures has made the decision to release ''Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows – Part 1'' in 2D, in both conventional and IMAX cinemas
ecausewe will not have a completed 3D version of the film within our release date window. Despite everyone's best efforts, we were unable to convert the film in its entirety and meet the highest standards of quality." Part 1 of ''Deathly Hallows'' was released on Blu-ray 3D as a Best Buy Exclusive. Part 2 was still released in 2D, 3D, and
IMAX
IMAX is a proprietary system of High-definition video, high-resolution cameras, film formats, film projectors, and movie theater, theaters known for having very large screens with a tall aspect ratio (image), aspect ratio (approximately ei ...
formats.
The world premiere for ''Deathly Hallows – Part 1'' was held in
Leicester Square
Leicester Square ( ) is a pedestrianised town square, square in the West End of London, England, and is the centre of London's entertainment district. It was laid out in 1670 as Leicester Fields, which was named after the recently built Leice ...
in London on 11 November 2010, with fans from across the world turning up – some of whom had
camped for days in the square. This was followed by the Belgian premiere on 12 November and the US premiere in New York City on 15 November.
Just 48 hours prior to the official North American launch of ''Part 1'', the first 36 minutes of the film were leaked on the internet. Even before the leak, the film was already the fifth-biggest generator of advance ticket sales in history, after selling out 1,000 cinemas across the United States. Despite widely circulating rumours that the leaked footage was a marketing ploy to generate hype for the movie release date, no
screener discs had been created by
Warner Bros., and executives called it "a serious breach of copyright violation and theft of Warner Bros. property".
In Australia, the film had its premiere on 13 November at Warner Bros. Movie World, located on the Gold Coast, Queensland. Three hundred people attended the viewing, which was the second official showing in the world, behind the UK premiere. The film premiered in Kuwait on 16 November. In Israel, Estonia, and New Zealand, the film was released on 18 November.
Home media
''Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows – Part 1'' was released on a single and double disc DVD and 3-disc
Blu-ray
Blu-ray (Blu-ray Disc or BD) is a digital optical disc data storage format designed to supersede the DVD format. It was invented and developed in 2005 and released worldwide on June 20, 2006, capable of storing several hours of high-defin ...
combo pack on 11 April 2011 in the UK and on 15 April 2011 in the US.
On 28 January 2011, it was announced by
Emma Watson on the Harry Potter UK Facebook page that the page's fans will get to vote for their preferred cover for the ''Part 1'' Blu-ray. The cover with the most votes will be the cover for the disc. Voting started that same day. The DVD and Blu-ray include eight deleted scenes, with the Blu-ray Combo Pack containing an opening scene from ''Part 2'' featuring Harry and Ollivander discussing the Deathly Hallows.
''Deathly Hallows – Part 1'' performed well in DVD sales, selling 7,237,437 DVD units and adding $86,932,256 to the gross revenue of the film, bringing the total to $1,043,331,967.
Reception
Box office
''Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows – Part 1'' grossed $24 million in North America during its midnight showing, beating the record for the highest midnight gross of the series, previously held by ''Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince (film), Half Blood Prince'', at $22.2 million. The film also had the third-highest midnight gross of all time, behind ''The Twilight Saga: Eclipse'' and ''The Twilight Saga: New Moon'', which grossed $30 million and $26.3 million, respectively. The film broke the record for the highest midnight gross in IMAX, with $1.4 million in box office sales, surpassing ''Eclipse'', which grossed $1 million. All of these records were later topped in 2011 by the film's sequel, ''Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows – Part 2''.
In North America, the film grossed $61.7 million on its opening day, marking the sixth Opening weekends#Biggest opening day in U.S. and Canada, highest single day gross ever at the time.
It became the highest opening day for a ''Harry Potter'' film in the series, a record previously held by ''Half-Blood Prince'' with $58.2 million, until it was broken by ''Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows – Part 2'' with $92.1 million. The film grossed a total of $125 million in its opening weekend, marking the largest opening for the franchise, previously held by ''Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire (film), Goblet of Fire''
and later topped by its sequel ''Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows – Part 2''. It also was the second biggest November opening ever at the time, behind ''The Twilight Saga: New Moon'' $142.8 million, the ninth biggest weekend opening for a film of all time at the North American box office, and the second biggest List of 2010 box office number-one films in the United States, opening weekend for a 2010 film in the United States and Canada behind ''Iron Man 2''s $128.1 million.
The film stayed at the top of the box office for two weeks, grossing $75 million over the five-day Thanksgiving weekend, bringing its total to $219.1 million.
In the United Kingdom, Ireland, and Malta, the film broke records for the highest Friday gross (£5.9 million), Saturday gross (£6.6 million), and Sunday gross (£5.7 million). Additionally, the film set the largest single day gross (£6.6 million) and the largest opening three-day gross (£18,319,721), a record previously held by ''Quantum of Solace'', which grossed £15.4 million. , ''Part 1'' has grossed £52,404,464 ($86,020,929),
becoming the second highest-grossing 2010 release in the country, behind ''Toy Story 3'' (£73,405,113).
Outside North America, the film grossed an estimated $205 million in its opening weekend, becoming the sixth highest of all time, the highest for a 2010 release, and the second highest for a Harry Potter (film series), ''Harry Potter'' movie, behind only ''Half-Blood Prince''.
Globally, the film grossed $330 million in its opening weekend, ranking seventh on Opening weekends#Biggest worldwide openings since 2002, the all-time chart.
It was the highest grossing 2010 film in Indonesia ($6,149,448), Singapore ($4,546,240), Thailand ($4,933,136), Belgium and Luxembourg ($8,944,329), France and the Maghreb region ($51,104,397), Germany ($61,430,098), the Netherlands ($13,790,585), Norway ($7,144,020), Sweden ($11,209,387), and Australia ($41,350,865). In total overseas earnings, it surpassed ''Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone (film), Philosopher's Stone'' ($657.2 million) to become the highest grossing ''Harry Potter (film series), Harry Potter'' film overseas.
''Part 1'' ended its run with $296.4 million in the United States and Canada, making it the List of American films of 2010#Box office, fifth-highest-grossing film of 2010 in these regions, and $680.7 million from other countries around the world, for a worldwide total of $977.1 million,
making it the third 2010 in film#Highest-grossing films, highest-grossing film of 2010 worldwide behind ''Toy Story 3'' and ''Alice in Wonderland (2010 film), Alice in Wonderland'',
as well as the third highest grossing Harry Potter (film series), ''Harry Potter'' film in the series behind ''The Deathly Hallows – Part 2'' and ''The Philosopher's Stone''.
Critical response
Rotten Tomatoes gives the film an approval rating of based on reviews, with an average rating of . The site's critics consensus reads, "It can't help but feel like the prelude it is, but ''Deathly Hallows: Part I'' is a beautifully filmed, emotionally satisfying penultimate installment for the Harry Potter series." On Metacritic, the film has a weighted average score of 65 out of 100, based on 42 critics, indicating "generally favourable reviews". Audiences surveyed by CinemaScore gave the film an average grade of "A" on an A+ to F scale.
The UK's ''Daily Telegraph'' also gave the film a positive review, remarking, "For the most part the action romps along, spurred by some impressive special effects," adding, "It's just slightly disappointing that, with the momentum having been established so effectively, we now have to wait until next year to enjoy the rest of the ride." Roger Ebert awarded the first part three out of four stars, praising the cast and calling it "a handsome and sometimes harrowing film . . . completely unintelligible for anyone coming to the series for the first time".
Scott Bowles of ''USA Today'' called it, "Menacing and meditative, ''Hallows'' is arguably the best instalment of the planned eight-film franchise, though audiences who haven't kept up with previous chapters will be hopelessly lost", while Lisa Schwarzbaum of ''
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'' likewise praised the film as "the most cinematically rewarding chapter yet." In a review for the ''Orlando Sentinel'', Roger Moore proclaimed Part I as "Alternately funny and touching, it's the best film in the series, an ''The Empire Strikes Back, Empire Strikes Back'' for these wizards and their wizarding world. And those effects? They're so special you don't notice them." Ramin Setoodeh of ''Newsweek'' gave a negative review, writing, "They've taken one of the most enchanting series in contemporary fiction and sucked out all the magic . . . while Rowling's stories are endlessly inventive, ''Potter'' onscreen just gives you a headache."
Keith Uhlich of ''Time Out (magazine), Time Out New York'' named ''Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows – Part 1'' the seventh-best film of 2010, calling it an "elatingly downbeat blockbuster".
Accolades
''Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows – Part 1'' was nominated for Best Art Direction and Best Visual Effects at the 83rd Academy Awards.
It is the second film in the ''Harry Potter (film series), Harry Potter'' film series to be nominated for a Visual Effects Oscar (the previous one being ''
Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban''). The film was long-listed for eight different categories, including Best Cinematography, Production Design, and Original Score, at the 64th British Academy Film Awards, 64th BAFTA awards, and ultimately was nominated for Best Special Visual Effects and Make-up.
Sequel
''Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows – Part 1'' was followed by ''The Deathly Hallows – Part 2'', the conclusion of the ''Harry Potter'' film series. Its story concludes Potter's quest to find and destroy Voldemort's Horcruxes in order to stop him once and for all. ''The Deathly Hallows – Part 2'' was a financial success,
becoming the 2011 in film#Highest-grossing films, highest-grossing film of 2011 and the franchise,
and was generally well-received by critics.
See also
* List of films split into multiple parts
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