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The boy wizard was no match for Captain America.

Paramount Pictures' "Captain America: The First Avenger" debuted at No. 1 with $65.8 million beating "Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part 2." The Marvel superhero film starring Chris Evans is paving the way for next year's "The Avengers."

RELATED READINGS:

"Captain America: The First Avenger" movie review right here

Watch my fun one-on-one interview with Chris Evans (Steve Rogers/Captain America) right here, with Hayley Atwell (Peggy Carter) right here, with Sebastian Stan (Bucky Barnes) right here, and with director Joe Johnston right here

The final film of the "Harry Potter" series fell to No. 2 with a still-respectable box-office take of $48 million. So far, "Deathly Hallows Part 2" has made $274.1 million in domestic total in its second weekend.

Here's the Top 10 box-office films for weekend of July 22:

• "Captain America: The First Avenger," $65.8 million
• "Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2," $48 million
• "Friends With Benefits," $18.5 million
• "Transformers: Dark of the Moon," $12 million
• "Horrible Bosses," $11.7 million
• "Zookeeper," $8.7 million
• "Cars 2," $5.7 million
• "Winnie the Pooh," $5.1 million
• "Bad Teacher," $2.6 million
• "Midnight in Paris," $1.9 million