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Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince Pushed Back to Next Summer!

Source:  The Hollywood Reporter
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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170 Comments


November 3rd, 2008 7:46pm
oh and for that person who wrote that long thing, partailly true, i agree but

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!
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November 3rd, 2008 7:43pm
if you really think about it, it really will help us, HARRY POTTER FANSS!!! WHOOOOOP!, but think if we had to wait 2 YEARSSSSS for the last ones. that would be hard and i know everone knows it. it might actually be worth our wait. WELL OF COURSE IT WILL BE!!!

-BIGGEST POTTER FAN ALIVE-
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September 4th, 2008 3:38pm
What the hell!!!!!

at least ill be able to see twilight yea!
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September 4th, 2008 3:19pm
What the hell!!!!!

at least ill be able to see twilight yea!
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August 29th, 2008 9:03am
and you cant say i hate vamps cause i loved 30 days but the one look like shit. and i will never EVER see it in my life.
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August 29th, 2008 9:02am
what? dk go fuck your mom fagg. and hq most pepole are not gonna see it i bet you a lot it may not be the worst but it will be up there. the trailer is god awfull and looks like a straight to dvd movie.
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August 25th, 2008 3:12pm
JR you need to grow up
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August 25th, 2008 7:58am
TWILIGHT WLL NOT BE THE WORST OF THIS YEAR I BET YOURE GOING TO GO WATCH IT SO STOP JUDGING VAMPIRES RULE
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August 23rd, 2008 9:48am
*Crying*
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August 21st, 2008 9:43am
Ok...normally I don't really comment due to the fact that I barely have time to but I'm going to say this. It's a darn movie. So what it's going to be pushed back? I know that it sucks for the diehard HP fans but you know what? They and everyone else will get over it just as ppl get over chicken pox.
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August 21st, 2008 6:59am
***I am not a super Harry Potter fan or anything, but my friend is like obsessed. And she was so excited when she found out it was coming out on her birthday. SHe wanted to take a couple friends to the premiere for her birthday. And now she is really pissed off because it is coming out in July.

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.
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August 20th, 2008 9:02pm
I've heard that WB changed the date mostly due to Radcliffe starring at the same time in the controversial play on Broadway, Equus, where he appears nude. WB publicity would not be able to utilize Radcliffe to the extent that they would like due to his Broadway schedule, not to mention they don't want any articles / interviews to be mixed with editorial about his naked role on Broadway. Potter & nakediness in the same article wouldn't be too kosher for the WB.
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August 19th, 2008 12:47pm
Insult to the fans? Suing the watchmen movie and making wolverine lighter is an insult to the fans. Pushing a movie back and keeping it the same isn't an insult, at best it's a good strategy
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August 19th, 2008 8:54am
I am still angry I have to wait till next year. DAMN!
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August 19th, 2008 6:00am
i just finished the book last night and this news does not bother me tha book was awsome and had ALOT in it and waiting is not a bad thing ill forget what happend in tha book lol
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August 18th, 2008 5:06pm
This is an insult to the fans. Pushing back to next summer, what money whores...
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August 18th, 2008 2:19pm
It's been in production since last year. However, I can't argue with your point Doc.
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August 18th, 2008 2:16pm
eh,... you do know we're talking about Harry Potter, right?..

you can take 10 years to make this and it will still be crap!
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August 18th, 2008 2:11pm
Won't it be better to wait for a film to be good, then have a film quickly made and turn out to be terrible?
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August 18th, 2008 9:55am
What sucks about this is that "Entertainment Weekly" Magazine: #1007/1008 * Aug22/29, 2008 has "ON THE SET: HARRY POTTER...the article states:

"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!
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August 17th, 2008 6:35pm
lol
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August 17th, 2008 6:43am
Ya got that right vamp, my head'll go all excorcist and turn all the way around...and then i'll puke on someone lmao
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August 17th, 2008 12:51am
My sis told me she's reading twilight. Lol. Probably have to watch that with her.
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.
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August 16th, 2008 11:38pm
Alright, I'm already sick of hearing about The Dark Knight. YES! It was a great movie! Yes it kicked major ass! However! IT'S OVER, AND EVERYONE'S SEEN IT! GET OVER IT ALREADY!

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.
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August 16th, 2008 10:59pm
no offense vamp but if you were at the midnight show for tdk everybody was making fun of it and saying how cheesy acting and bad effects. and trust me it was eveyone and it was like 300 pepole and they thought disater movie looked better..lol its true i rather see disater then twighlight.
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August 16th, 2008 10:46pm
Glad they didnt do this to the dark knight, still lokking forward to it though, probs cus i aint read the books
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August 16th, 2008 9:59pm
dammit
now i have nothing to look forward to this fall
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August 16th, 2008 8:56pm
don't 4get 2 watch DarK KNigHt AgAin.....................
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August 16th, 2008 6:21pm
HEY! Twilight will be awesome! To quote Vis himself, if Watchmen gets bumped back, I think we can see The Visionary:Psycho of the Age. lol.
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August 16th, 2008 4:16pm
Also we have the day the earth stood still, but even that looks kinda questionable.
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