The first weekend for the movie, "Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone," was the biggest weekend American film opening ever. It also topped the charts over the second weekend, which included Thanksgiving.

In fact, movies aimed primarily at kids earned the top two spots both weekends. The animated feature, "Monsters, Inc.", was second to "Harry Potter" on each weekend.

In the first weekend, "Harry Potter" took in $93.5 million. That beat the previous record for a three day, non-holiday weekend. "Planet of the Apes" took in $68.5 million last summer. The previous three-day, holiday weekend record was $72.1 million by "The Lost World: Jurassic Park." That was set over the Memorial Day weekend in 1997.

During this year's Thanksgiving weekend, "Harry Potter" and "Monsters, Inc.," took in more attendance revenue than the other eight movies in the top 10.

After just 10 days, "Harry Potter" had total attendance revenue of over $188 million. If a movie takes in over $100 million during its entire movie theater life, it's considered to be a big hit. "Harry Potter" nearly doubled that in 10 days.

"Monsters, Inc." has taken in $192.8 million in its first four weeks.

Of course, "Harry Potter" was expected to be a blockbuster. After all, J.K. Rowling's four books of fantasy about the young wizard have 110 million books in print worldwide in 47 different languages. And audience surveys said most kids wanted to see the movie.

Filming on the second "Harry Potter" movie is already underway in England. That movie is expected to be released during next year's holiday season. Warner Brothers is hoping to develop a holiday franchise by releasing a movie a year for the next seven holiday seasons.

Ms. Rowling is now writing her fifth in what she says will be a seven-book series.

Young Saint Louis.com produced an exclusive movie review in mid-November just before the film opened to the public. Because the review didn't get on the website until mid-November, we are repeating the review in this December edition.

To read Eddie Szewczyk's review, just click here. The 13-year-old Belleville, Ill., teen is a reporter and movie reviewer for Radio Disney in the metro area.