Harry Potter film disapparates – til next July
August 15, 2008
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Horrendous news for all Harry Potter fans…
The new Potter film ‘Harry potter & the Half Blood Prince’ has been delayed – until July 17, 2009.
The film was due to be in cinemas on November 21st this year.
The 100-day WGA writers’ strike earlier this year has meant that many studios’ films won’t be ready in time for the summer season, so Warner Brothers has pushed Potter back to bolster next summer’s weakened schedule.
Warners president Alan Horn said in a statement that the development of next summer’s tentpole films has been affected for all major studios:
“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,” Horn said. “We agreed the best strategy was to move ‘Half-Blood Prince’ to July, where it perfectly fills the gap for a major tentpole release for midsummer.”
The studio also confirmed its adaptation of the final book ‘Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows’ will still be released in two parts, as planned. The first part has been scheduled for November 19th, 2010.
We’re probably never going to get over this. For the next 11 months, we’ll be watching the trailer over and over and trying to recreate the film in our imagination…
