Warner Brothers announced today that Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince has been moved back from its previous release in November of this year to July 2009.
In making the announcement, Mr. Horn 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.”
In the meantime you can view images from the sixth film in the gallery.
Harry Potter Fans is looking for new staff members. If you are interested in being a co-web or staff member, please send an e-mail to snowflakie06 [at] gmail [dot] com. Details are as follows:
The sections of the site that you can be a staff member of are News, Gallery, Video Archive, Media (graphics mostly), Movies, Books and Forum. Being a co-web would encompass all of the above and other site stuff. Currently the site uses CuteNews for updates, Coppermine for the gallery (and soon the new media section), and PHPMotion for the video archive.
I look forward to hearing from you!
~Christine
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