Sorry, Harry Potter fans, but it looks like you'll have to wait even longer for the next film installment of this series. According to
The Hollywood Reporter, Warner Bros. has pushed back the release of
Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince from November 21 of this year to July 17, 2009.
Warner president Alan Horn said in his statement that the writers strike was the main cause for the release date shift.
"Like every other studio, we are still feeling the repercussions of the writers strike, which impacted the readiness of scripts for other films-changing the competitive landscape for 2009 and offering new windows of opportunity that we wanted to take advantage of," he said. "We agreed the best strategy was to move
Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince to July, where it perfectly fills the gap for a major tent pole release for mid-summer."
According to the studio, the post-production work for the film, directed by David Yates, is being completed on time and also that the studio still plans to split the last book,
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, into two films.
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i don't think ANYONE would stop going on the first day/night/morning from going cause i know i will be the first to get tickets and sit in my seat!
-BIGGEST POTTER FAN ALIVE-
at least ill be able to see twilight yea!
at least ill be able to see twilight yea!
Personally, I think that this bullshit. The only true reason they are postponing it is so that they can make more money. HELLO- they were gonna make a fortune anyway! I am not sure that this "silver lining" really is silver. I would have been fine waiting two years for the next installment because I would have been satisfied with watching the sixth movie in November.
I have also read somewhere that one of the actors said the they had finished it and it looked amazing. Question- If it is finished Mr. Alan Horn, than why don't you release the sixth movie when it is supposed to come out and get off your high horse and get to work on the seventh movie. That way everyone will be happy and maybe, just maybe , the seventh movie could come out like at least two months early. Because all you have done, by moving the release date, is create a small army of angry fans ready to boycott Warner Brothers movie until the sixth movie is released.
*** That was a copy of the letter I sent Mr. Horn
I believe that we should all boycott Warner Brothers movies until the sixth movie comes out.
We should also not go on the first day.
I think that this will show Mr. Horn that he has truly disapointed thousands of fans around the world.
you can take 10 years to make this and it will still be crap!
"The Sixth Harry Potter film arrives this fall, rocked by teen angst, the death if a main character, and a major qustion: Now that books are completed, will audiences still be as wild about Harry?"
WOW.....Now the film has been pushed till next summer! I guess "Entertainment Weekly" was in the dark as the rest of the world! Hollywood is ruled by the devil!
THIS FALL 2008..MY ASS!!
The only reason..."THE ONLY REASON" Harry Potter got moves was because of "Twilight"...if you go into "Border Books and Music"..they have all kinds of "Twilight" crap..everything from "Twilight" candy bars, t-shirts etc..etc...IT's the next teenage blitz!
I tried to read the 1st book "Twilight". I mabey got through the 1st 2 chapters, & thought it was really boring. It was really written for teenagers/young adults Under 21!
The movie itself looks like soemthing that could play on the Lifetime channel!
If I were u Potter fans, I would be more worried about the deathly hollows in 2 parts than a postpone of HBP. I mean what if they delay both of those (probably won't) but if they did, It would really suck then. lol.
AND JR, I wouldn't expect the people going to see such a high action movie as TDK would much want to see a Vampire Romance movie, so that's that, and alls well.
now i have nothing to look forward to this fall