Warner Bros. Responds to Upset POTTER Fandom

Why move it all the way to mid-July? Why not early June or Memorial day weekend? What else does WB have next summer?

I can't tell if there's something fishy about this or not. I guess Potter has always been either a July or November release. Maybe they're just keeping with their pattern.

Sounds like it's too much of a Turkey movie to come out at Thankgiving to me if they are moving date. Probably need time to fix the cut.

i'm telling ya that they want the money that the dark knight got. they are hoping to cash in on it

I agree Pred, that seems to be the most logical reason. Why the hell else would they push back a release 8 months? I mean some movies are shot and released faster than 8 months. Well, I guess the one good thing, like they said, is that it will be a shorter time between this and Deathly Hollows.

Why all the yelling and screaming that the movie is being pushed back?

Hell, go read the damned book (again). They're far superior to the likely hack and slash adaptation we'll end up with anyways.

Didn't Horn say the writer's strike had affected the 09 Summer season and they wanted to take advantage of that?

That makes perfect sense if it's true.

There will be a shorter wait between HP6 & HP7, but doesn't that mean there is a longer wait between HP5 & HP6!!?

I think it was suggested here (or somewhere) yesterday that WB wanted to separate its tentpole flicks to two separate years. Since TDK made so much money this year, it made no sense to have HP6 make even more money, then have a letdown in 2009. By pushing HP6 to next year, WB gets to have a banner year this year, then another next year. After reading this, and seeing HP7, Part 1 getting a 2010 release date, that means another consecutive year and I assume Part 2 would be in 2011, giving a 4th consecutive year. That theory makes sense to me. Greedy bastards...

Ditto what fft said except the been greedy part. The film will make make a ton of dough either way. It's just so the co.'s bottomline doesn't look as bad next year as it otherwise would.

You're right Hanso. The eports last week said the writer's strike had affected the release of other blockbusters they had been planning to release in Summer 2009. So I guess they're saying that they don't have anything else worthy that will be ready in time, so they're saving Harry Potter for then. But now won't they be missing out on having a big blockbuster for the Christmas season, or do they have something else.

I don't even know why studios save their big blockbuster type of movies for Christmas or May/June/July. They're the ones who have set audiences up to assume blockbusters will only come out during those months, and that if a movie is released in February, it must not be as good. Why clump all of the big movies together and make them compete. Why not disperse big movies throughout the year. Working adults generally don't get summer and Christmas holidays like kids in school do, so it doesn't make a difference what time of year it is to get out and see a movie.