Kaleidoscope 2011: Important Events in Entertainment (Part 3/4)

In this third part, AceShowbiz highlights the record-breaking opening week of 'Deathly Hallows 2', the wedding of Kim Kardashian and Kris Humphries, and the first-ever No. 1 album of Tony Bennett.

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Moving from the second to the third quarter of its 2011 Kaleidoscope, AceShowbiz took a stroll down the memory lane from July to September. In this summer blockbuster season, some of the big movies of the year like "Transformers: Dark of the Moon" and "Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part II" made a grand entrance on the box office with record-breaking number of ticket sales, but it was the latter that outshone the others by scoring multiple records in the States on its opening week.

In the celebrity news, as usual, there was no shortage of the glitz and blitz, but it was the wedding of Kim Kardashian and Kris Humphries which dominated the three months leading to the fall of 2011. In music, one of the highlighted moments was when Tony Bennett finally had his first-ever No. 1 album. In TV, meanwhile, it's worth to be noted that the networks were busy with axing sleeper shows to give rooms for more promising newbies, and renewing those which maintain steady pace in ratings.

JULY

Harry Potter bid farewell to his loyal devotees in "Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part II" with a triumph. At two hours and ten minutes, the David Yates-directed movie became the shortest of all the "Harry Potter" flicks, yet it's the most successful one. In the U.S., it set a box office record for midnight showings with $43.5 million, surpassing the $30 million mark set by "The Twilight Saga's Eclipse". On its single-day-gross, it collected $92.1 million, topping the $72.7 million mark by "The Twilight Saga's New Moon". To top them all, it pulled the biggest opening weekend ever with $168.6 million, smashing the previous record held by "The Dark Knight" ($158.4 million).

AUGUST

Since Kim Kardashian announced her engagement to Kris Humphries in May, people had been eagerly waiting for the two to walk down the aisle. How would their nuptials be like? When the D-Day finally came three months later, they didn't disappoint the public as Kim threw a lavish ceremony complete with a crystal-encrusted cross at the altar. 72 days afterwards, however, the couple turned into a media mockery after Kim filed for divorce from Kris. From "Saturday Night Live" troupe to talk-show hosts like Jimmy Kimmel, they had raced to ridicule this so-called fairytale wedding.

SEPTEMBER

It's hard to believe that after almost six decades in music industry, more than sixty albums in the stores, and over 30 charting singles, never did Tony Bennett debut at no. 1 on Billboard Hot 200. The anomaly, however, was corrected on the fourth week of September 2011 when his album, "Tony Bennett: Duets II", bowed at the penthouse of the weekly rundown. The jazz crooner claimed his throne for the first time ever by selling 179,000 copies of the CD. At the age of 85, he became the oldest living legend to top the chart after Bob Dylan made headline when he got his first No. 1 album at the age of 67 with his 2009's "Together Through Life".



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