Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire (film) by the 2008 James Bond film "Quantum of Solace", which took in £15.4m. "The Goblet of Fire" drew $102.7 million its opening weekend at the North American box office, setting a new opening high for the franchise and also achieved the highest weekend debut in November, with the latter being surpassed by "" in 2009. It sold about as many tickets as "Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone" did in its opening weekend. The film's franchise record was later overtaken in 2010 by "Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows – Part 1", which opened to $125 million; "Harry Potter and
Harry Potter (film series) novels. The book, "Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone", was relegated to a low-priority bookshelf, where it was discovered by a secretary who read it and gave it to Heyman with a positive review. Consequently, Heyman, who had originally disliked "the rubbish title", read the book himself. Highly impressed by Rowling's work, he began the process that led to one of the most successful cinematic franchises of all time. Heyman's enthusiasm led to Rowling's 1999 sale of the film rights for the first four "Harry Potter" books to Warner Bros. for a reported £1 million (US$2,000,000). A demand Rowling made