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And All Was Right With the World

Harry Potter’s Ron & Hermione Are The Top-Grossing On-Screen Couple

by Jill Pantozzi | 2:02 pm, January 6th, 2012


Forbes Magazine has put together a list of the top-earning on-screen couples from the last five years and one adorable pair of wizards has wound up on top. Rupert Grint’s Ron and Emma Watson’s Hermione took the number one spot with those lovesick puppies from Twilight, Robert Pattinson’s Edward and Kristen Stewart’s Bella coming in at a far second. Hit the jump to see who else made the list! 

To make the list, Forbes took earnings information from Box Office Mojo. For Grint and Watson, their four Harry Potter movies in the last five years made a total of $4.2 billion. Forbes writes, “All of the Twilight films to date have hit theaters in the last five years, earning $2.5 billion at the global box office.” There’s one more Twilight film to be released but odds are they won’t go anywhere near Potter’s total.

Here’s the rest of the, slightly peculiar, list:

  • Transformer’s Shia LaBeouf & Megan Fox – $1.5 billion
  • Iron Man’s Robert Downey, Jr. & Gwyneth Paltrow – $1.2 billion
  • Transformers: Dark Side of the Moon’s Shia LaBeouf & Rosie Huntington-Whiteley – $1.1 billion
  • Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides’ Johnny Depp & Penelope Cruz – $1 billion
  • Pirates of the Caribbean’s Orlando Bloom & Keira Knightly – $963 million
  • Spider-Man’s Tobey Maguire & Kirsten Dunst – $890 million
  • Inception’s Leonardo DiCaprio & Marion Cotillard – $825 million
  • Sex and the City’s Sarah Jessica Parker & Chris Noth – $703 million

It’s very strange to me that the latest Transformers and Pirates films made enough on their own to get those couples on the list. And also of note is only one romantic comedy managed to make enough to get on the list. That’s right. Genre couples are the best couples. Also, this.

Ron and Hermione 4-EVA.

(via The Hollywood Reporter)

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  • Anonymous

    I love Ron and Hermione. I was really happy JK Rowling didn’t pair Harry and Hermione. It would have been to obvious. Plus, Rupert Grint is so damn cute I would pick Ron over Harry any day.

  • Anonymous

    Gah, I think I’d pick Emma out of the three, just sayin’.

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_R7GVNIKWG3S2UTHEQOMSZXT4M4 Anna B

    :( Sorry. Harry+Hermione fan here.

  • Gwenyn Bright

    Yes! Yes! Yes! OTP of all OTPs since I was 12. I agree with tudorprincess, I would pick Ron every time. Sorry, Chosen One.

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Kaarel-Jakobson/100000313100671 Kaarel Jakobson

    It’s nice to the Good Ship Ron/Hermione dominate.

  • http://zachsdingbats.blogspot.com/ zazzamatazz

    I find the omission of Leo & Kate from Titanic at 1.6 Billion worldwide to be curious

  • http://zachsdingbats.blogspot.com/ zazzamatazz

    oh wait this is the last five years derp

  • http://twitter.com/AtomicDarling Ashley B

    I’ll choose… neither. I’ll take Fred AND George though. :P

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