Harry Potter 6 on July 19, 2009

Looks like I should wait a little longer for the release of the next installment of Harry Potter movie, Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince. Warner Bros. has announced that the movie's release date was pushed back to Jul 17, 2009 instead of November of this year.

I was searching for updates about the movie and I found some official statements from Warner Bros on why they move the release of the movie next year...

Alan Horn, President and Chief Operating Officer, Warner Bros. stated:

Our reasons for shifting Half-Blood Prince to summer are twofold: we know the summer season is an ideal window for a family tent pole 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. Additionally, 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. We agreed the best strategy was to move Half-Blood Prince to July, where it perfectly fills the gap for a major tent pole release for mid-summer.

Jeff Robinov, President of Warner Bros. Motion Picture Group, confirmed:

The release date change does not alter the production schedule for this or future Harry Potter films. Post-production on Half-Blood Prince was completed on time, and the studio’s release plans for the two-part Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows will not be affected by this change. We know Harry Potter fans are eagerly anticipating seeing the final chapters unfold onscreen. In fact, the good news for them is that the gap will now be shortened between Half-Blood Prince and the first part of Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows.

While producer David Heyman offered:

When Jeff Robinov explained the rationale behind moving the release date of Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince to July 2009, it was immediately apparent that this offered us the potential to reach the widest possible audience. I am extremely proud of this latest film and of the work of David Yates and our incomparable cast; I believe we have developed and pushed the series further still. We are all looking forward to sharing it with Harry Potter fans around the world, even if we have to wait just a bit longer.

SOURCE: http://www.hpana.com/news.20576.html

Make a Stand- Deathly Hallows Spoilers

I visited Mugglenet.com for the latest update of the last volume of Harry Potter book, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows. There, I've read that New York Times was able to purchase the last Harry Potter installment from an unnamed bookstore and has posted a review about it which, also contained spoilers about what is to be expected in the Deathly Hallows.

Here are some of the spoilers I ripped off from the article entitled An Epic Showdown as Harry Potter Is Initiated Into Adulthood in New York Times which was published on 19th of July 2007:

• At least a half-dozen characters we have come to know die in these pages, and many others are wounded or tortured

• Voldemort and his followers have infiltrated Hogwarts and the Ministry of Magic, creating havoc and terror in the Wizard and Muggle worlds alike

• Harry continues to struggle to control his temper, and as he and Ron and Hermione search for the missing Horcruxes

• Harry’s weird psychic connection with Voldemort seems to have grown stronger too

• Invisibility cloak, Polyjuice Potion, Dumbledore’s Pensieve and Sirius’s flying motorcycle — play important roles in this volume

• One of the plot’s significant turning points concerns Harry’s decision on whether to continue looking for the Horcruxes or to pursue the Hallows, three magical objects said to make their possessor the master of Death

So, how was that? Interesting, eh? Men, Just can't wait to read book 7!


You can read the whole article here.