Perhaps Harry Potter will save the day before the year is out, but he was too late to turn the tide for the fall box office.

Reuters reports that not one single movie passed the $100 million mark during the outgoing movie season. The 10-week fall period is calculated from the end of Labour Day weekend to Thursday, the day before Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire opened.

The last time that no film reached $100 million during the fall was in 1997.

Box office total was $1.34 billion, down nearly 4% from last year, when Shark Tale and The Incredibles made more than $150 million each. The two highest-grossing films this fall was Flightplan ($87 million) and Chicken Little ($84.4 million).

With a whopping deficit of $550 million, it remains to be seen whether the big guns of the year-end holiday period can close the gap. Goblet of Fire was off to a good start, landing #1 in all 19 countries where it opened. Meanwhile, Comingsoon.net reported that the movie shattered every record for an IMAX Hollywood simultaneous release. It was the biggest three-day opening ever, and also set single-day box office records for Friday, Saturday and Sunday.

It remains to be seen whether The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion the Witch and the Wardrobe and King Kong, the other two most-anticipated films of the year, can top that.






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