Harry Potter and the half-Blood Prince “wins U.S. $ 159.7 million in the U.S. and Canada, the sixth-biggest opening for a period of five days, distributor Warner Bros. Pictures said Sunday.

The international part of $ 237 million from 84 markets, also set a new record.

The old record was broken by “Spider-Man 3″ in 2007 as the global curve of $ 381.7 million including foreign sales of U.S. $ 230.5 million.

In North America, the new movie surpassed its predecessors, “Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix,” which opened to $ 139.7 million two years ago. The image ended with $ 938 million worldwide, the seventh greatest film of all time, before accounting for inflation.

But while the five-day total was impressive, it was dwarfed the $ 200 million opening for “Transformers: Revenge of the missing” last month, which was only $ 3.8 million behind the record setting last year by “The Dark Knight.”

Key international markets for the new film is part of Great Britain with $ 32.4 million, Germany with $ 23 million, France with $ 20.2 million and Japan with $ 18.2 million.

“We are excited with the definition of the international registration of results of the weekend, which shows that Harry Potter’s audience continues to grow as people mature in series with each rental,” said Veronika Kwan-Rubinek, president of international distribution on Time Warner Inc. - Ownership study.