Next Harry Potter movie pushed back to July 2009
Thursday August 14 5:57 PM ET
The release date for the sixth Harry Potter movie, "Harry Potter and
the Half-Blood Prince," was pushed back on Thursday to July 2009 from
its original slot in November 2008, movie studio Warner Bros. said.
The eight-month change in the opening date to July 17, 2009, is
expected to disappoint millions of Harry Potter fans around the world
who have already been waiting more than a year to watch the next
big-screen installment in the international literary and film phenomenon.
Trailers for "Half-Blood Prince" began running last week in advance of
the expected November movie release worldwide.
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Warner Bros., a unit of Time Warner Inc, said it had decided to make
the change to bolster its release schedule for the lucrative summer
moviegoing season -- a period that can account for as much as 40
percent of Hollywood's annual box office receipts.
Warner Bros. President Alan Horn said the studio was also still
feeling repercussions from the three-month Hollywood screenwriters
strike that ended in February but has "impacted the readiness of
scripts for other films."
"We know the summer season is an ideal window for a family ...
release, as proven by the success of our last Harry Potter film, which
is the second-highest grossing film in the franchise, behind only the
first installment," Horn said.
The studio said the change of date would not alter production plans
for the final, two-part Potter movie adventure, "Harry Potter and the
Deathly Hallows." The release date for part one is tentatively set for
November 2010.
"Deathly Hallows," the seventh and last story from British author J.K.
Rowling about the boy wizard and his friends at Hogwarts School, was
published in July 2007. The series has sold an estimated 400 million
copies, and the books have been translated into more than 60 languages.
(Reporting by Jill Serjeant; editing by Steve Gorman and Todd Eastham)
http://movies.yahoo.com/mv/news/va/20080814/121876187700.html
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