 Stuart Craig, Harry Potter & Fantastic Beasts films' production designer, dies at 83 Malfoys, Dursleys, Hogwarts students, more cast in HBO 'Harry Potter TV series Tom Felton to reprise Draco Malfoy role in NYC 'Harry Potter and the Cursed Child' "Harry Potter" HBO MAX TV series casts Harry, Ron, and Hermione Harry Potter HBO/MAX TV series casts Dumbledore, Snape, McGonagall, Hagrid, more 'Harry Potter and the Cursed Child' announces 10 cities, part of North American tour Universal Orlando launching U.S. portal tour for Epic Unvierse attraction opening PUMA to release new Harry Potter and Hogwarts-House themed sportswear this month
| |
If this is your first visit, be sure to check out the FAQ by clicking the link above.
You may have to register before you can post: click the register link above to proceed.
To start viewing messages, select the forum that you want to visit from the selection below.
| | Harry Potter News Fresh off the press! Stay informed on the latest Harry Potter news, updates, and whispers here. All News Rules and FAQs apply. | |
08-14-2008, 08:46 PM
| | |  Half-Blood Prince release date pushed back to summer 2009 (UPDATE #2)
Warner Brothers have today announced that the Half-Blood Prince release date is to be pushed back to summer 2009. The release date will now be July 17th 2009. Quote:
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.”
Quote:
Commenting on the release date change for “Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince,” David Heyman, the producer of all the Harry Potter films, 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.”
The official website for the film has been altered to reflect the change in release date. UPDATE: A new statement from Alan Horn, Warner Bros. president and chief operating officer has emerged; Quote:
"The picture is completely, absolutely, 100 percent on schedule, on time. There were no delays. I've seen the movie. It is fabulous. We would have been perfectly able to have it out in November."
Quote:
"We would never do anything to hurt one of the movies or the series. We love our fans."
UPDATE #2: Dan Fellman, Warner Bros. head of distribution, spoke early Sunday about the decision to change the release date for the sixth film. Quote:
The studio had been considering the date change for three or four weeks, "but it really didn't kind of get on the front burner until sometime within the last seven days," Dan Fellman, Warner Bros. head of distribution, said Sunday.
 | |
08-15-2008, 11:07 AM
|
#176 (permalink)
|  I joined 2002!Jarvey
Join Date: Sep 2002 Location: Australia
Posts: 619
Graduated |
Its not summer in july for us down here in Australia. a release in december like it was originally planned would be more beneficial for them here. a december release is right in the middle of summer holidays. so if they are thinking money, keep the date the same here at least!
__________________ 
Graphics made by: *JoshMoonson* | 
| | |
08-15-2008, 11:13 AM
|
#177 (permalink)
| | Mooncalf
Join Date: Apr 2008
Posts: 7,786
Hogwarts RPG Name:
Tommy Black
First Year | ♥ Slytherin Princess to the core ♥ / St. Trinian's Terror
__________________ I love the number of children i meet who are captivated by all of it,
all of whom think i am terrifying because i play Bellatrix!!!!
♥Tom's Treehouse♥
♥15th July 2011 The Final Chapter♥ | |
| | |
08-15-2008, 12:18 PM
|
#178 (permalink)
|  I'm back! Puffskein
Join Date: Sep 2003 Location: Dublin, Ireland
Posts: 1,020
|
UUUUUGGGHHHHAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHH!
I'm disgusted........
| |
| | |
08-15-2008, 12:50 PM
|
#179 (permalink)
| | Jarvey
Join Date: Oct 2006 Location: here there & nowhere
Posts: 579
Hogwarts RPG Name:
Syndrea Mindoll
First Year |
*sulks off* I have to go recount the days now, 1...2...3... this is so not right!
__________________
nothing to say but a lot to write.  | |
| | |
08-15-2008, 01:28 PM
|
#180 (permalink)
|   SS100 TriumphantKappa
Join Date: Aug 2008 Location: Postmodern Jukebox
Posts: 13,422
Hogwarts RPG Name:
Rayna C. Thorne
Third Year | ♥My Very 1st Tag | ~Filofax:Forever~ | ~Evil Slythie~ | Chris' Caretaker♥
I really feel bad for all of you who planned on seeing this for your birthdays with your family and friends. Me and a bunch of my friends wanted to get together just before the end of semester and see the movie together as a 'last hurrah' before winter break...guess that's not going to happen now. 
---> Wait...I feel bad for everyone because we all hoped to see it in November or December of this year.
__________________ 
Last edited by EquestrianGal88; 08-15-2008 at 01:31 PM.
Reason: Add
| |
| | |
08-15-2008, 01:45 PM
|
#181 (permalink)
| | Re'em
Join Date: Aug 2007 Location: Cloud 9,000
Posts: 19,633
Hogwarts RPG Name:
Phineas Fischer
Fourth Year | *snortles* MAMA!Shroom
*stutters* I...er...WHAT? I don't ...understand. This is looking like movie biz politic-y stuff to me.
GAH 
What a load. 
__________________ UNDER CONSTRUCTION YO. | |
| | |
08-15-2008, 01:45 PM
|
#182 (permalink)
| | Erkling
Join Date: Jun 2008 Location: Snowball Fight
Posts: 20,711
| Harry ♥ Ginny || Ron ♥ Mione - - Neville's Bravery || Luna's Laughter
NOooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo!!!!!!
Why are they doing this, it's sooooo not fair!!!
Us fans have to suffer because they're not productive anymore, that's a load of crap!
We have all waited so long for this, planned so much for this and now they take it away from us, that is so wrong!!! They shouldn't do this!!!
| |
| | |
08-15-2008, 01:56 PM
|
#183 (permalink)
| | Firecrab
Join Date: Jun 2006
Posts: 746
Hogwarts RPG Name:
Psyche Agatha Earnshaw
Fifth Year |
No way!!! No! No! No! I can't believe this is happening! Am I having a nightmare? Aww...I need to wake up! This can't be! Another year? That sucks.
| |
| | |
08-15-2008, 02:05 PM
|
#184 (permalink)
| | Jobberknoll
Join Date: Aug 2007
Posts: 4,230
| Climbed & Reached 1000!
I just heard about this on the radio and had to come here, to check if it might have been a mistake -sadly it wasnt!
WTF is WB thinking? 
(So July is a better time? Well yeah before Christmas has got to be the worst time for a family film to come out!
Could it be that WB has other films coming out in November and doesnt want HP to be competition for them?)
| |
| | |
08-15-2008, 02:10 PM
|
#185 (permalink)
| Agony AuntSpazztically Awesome Puffskein
Join Date: Jul 2003 Location: with my gorgeous boy
Posts: 1,593
Hogwarts RPG Name:
Ms Isabella Lestrange-Wood
Graduated |
Harry Potter 6 release date
SIGN THIS , I KNOW IT PROBABLY WONT HELP.
But even if they think that half the people who sign wont come, they might change their minds.
They know we are loyal and patient allready, a boycott and wait for a dvd, or pirate will happen.
| |
| | |
08-15-2008, 02:16 PM
|
#186 (permalink)
| NummyNum Fire Slug
Join Date: Jul 2008 Location: Honeydukes
Posts: 157
Hogwarts RPG Name:
Luise Stranzl
First Year |
NOOOOOO.....!!! WHY?? because of money?? they ARE crazy!! I've made my own countdown until this November! I'm so mad! | |
| | |
08-15-2008, 02:29 PM
|
#187 (permalink)
| | Diricawl
Join Date: Oct 2003 Location: Throne.
Posts: 26,786
Hogwarts RPG Name:
Zahra Kettleburn
Graduated | Inside Kitty | HIT ENTER | UNO Queen
Hehe
Well at least I'll be able to go see Twilight that many MORE times. And still have Christmas shopping money left over maybe. Right? Though, I did already have this all planned out. Ah well. | |
| | |
08-15-2008, 02:49 PM
|
#188 (permalink)
| | Puffskein
Join Date: Mar 2008 Location: Denmark.
Posts: 1,630
Hogwarts RPG Name:
Ashley Noir
Fifth Year |
OH ... MY ... GOD! 335 days! O.o
Buuuut... That means! I'M IN LONDON THAT VERY SAME DAY! OH, MY GOD!
| |
| | |
08-15-2008, 03:11 PM
|
#189 (permalink)
| | Cockatrice
Join Date: Sep 2004
Posts: 28,938
Hogwarts RPG Name:
Professor McFarlane
Graduated | IndyEddie
Sigh, I know this is irritating, everyone. I do. Believe me, I was looking forward to HBP releasing some pre-finals stress. So, Now I have to rely on Twilight relieveing the mid-finals stress.
Will I go see HBP as many times as I had been planning? Of course not. It's now coming out in summer and the last thing I'm going to want to do is sit in a darkened theater all the time. As I've stated, I'll be going twice at the outside most.
Seriously though, will their profit be worth it? They have to do a new trailer, they have to make new posters, they have to completely reschedule everything they had planned for it. Including every single contract, and I wonder how many of those has a 'must pay even if plans change' clause. They've given themselves more work, they've irritated the entire fanbase (yet again...), and now we threaten to boycott the movie, which you know will not happen.
Instead of encouraging everyone to sign a petition, that won't work anyway as they've made up their minds, why not just shrug your shoulders and only see the movie once or twice after it's out instead of the 354653165731654 times you had been planning on.
Personally, I think they messed up. There was only 2 movies I had wanted to see this winter....now there's only one. And I go to the movies a LOT more in the winter time. - I've been in twice since May. I was going to movies 2-3 times a month from last October till April.
*skips off and sings along with Touz
Always look on the bright side of life *whistles*
__________________ 
We'll always be together cuz we're both under the moon | |
| | |
08-15-2008, 03:16 PM
|
#190 (permalink)
| | Bundimun
Join Date: Jul 2007 Location: Florida, US
Posts: 27
Hogwarts RPG Name:
unsorted
|  Greedy Leeches!!!!!!
I'm cursing very loudly right now... I will spare y'all. I'm just SO ANGERED and FRUSTRATED!!! Why does it always have to be about the money?! All they care about is having a big opening! How greedy!!!!! WB ARE GREEDY LEECHES!! This is a blow against the fans... they don't care about us or the movie... They only wanna make the bug bucks and they'll stop at nothing... I'm disgusted. I'm gonna go sign some petitions. UGH!!! =(
| |
| | |
08-15-2008, 03:22 PM
|
#191 (permalink)
| | Swedish Short-Snout
Join Date: Aug 2006 Location: In Your Dreams
Posts: 31,312
Hogwarts RPG Name:
Alex Black
First Year | SS Featured Writer Lovely Lady
I heard this on the radio this morning and couldn't believe it, I thought there had to be a mistake. Now I know it's really true (cries). It will be out two days before my birthday now, but still no consolation!
Why....
| |
| | |
08-15-2008, 03:36 PM
|
#192 (permalink)
| | Murtlap
Join Date: Aug 2008 Location: Jordan
Posts: 56
Sixth Year |
This is a bad news...
I am waiting for the movie from a long tiime... | |
| | |
08-15-2008, 03:39 PM
|
#193 (permalink)
| | Puffskein
Join Date: May 2008 Location: In the Cinematic Sun
Posts: 1,399
Hogwarts RPG Name:
Ludo Snicket
Sixth Year | *Imaginary Tag* Tape Master
*confuzzed
If it was ready for November!...gah
__________________  | |
| | |
08-15-2008, 04:04 PM
|
#194 (permalink)
| | Flobberworm
Join Date: Jul 2008
Posts: 14
|
So I've had a full day to think this over. I wasn't that upset last night, but now, I just feel used. I'm an adult. I know that's how the world works, but it doesn't make me feel any better about it. I just feel kind of dirty, degraded.
I don't believe in boycotting the film because it will also hurt the people who actually worked on the movie, and I don't think this was their decision. I will tell you what though, I don't plan on rushing out to see many more WB films or DVDs over the next 11 months. If they want to wait for our money, they can wait.
| |
| | |
08-15-2008, 04:21 PM
|
#195 (permalink)
| | Jarvey
Join Date: Jan 2008 Location: Forks, With Edward.
Posts: 695
Hogwarts RPG Name:
Adalia Longbottom.
Third |
I am actually crying.
"|
__________________  | |
| | |
08-15-2008, 04:42 PM
|
#196 (permalink)
| | Firecrab
Join Date: Oct 2002 Location: In my Blue little room, on my little black laptop
Posts: 943
|
I am so depressed. They should be making the films for the fans, not 'the widest possible audience' or what ever. Now the question is...when will they release Movie 7 Part 1?
__________________  BOW TO THE ALL MIGHTY BAND DIRECTOR! | |
| | |
08-15-2008, 04:47 PM
|
#197 (permalink)
| | Gnome
Join Date: Aug 2005 Location: texas, usa!
Posts: 266
|
My friend called me to tell me this and I didn't believe her. I was like, "Yeah, whatever. I'll go check and prove you wrong."
I was so mad/surprised that I dropped the phone. Like, my mouth was hanging open.
I am soooooooooooooooooo mad. This is ridiculous.
this is siriusly ridikkulus. (haha. small joke.) (i'm still mad.)
| |
| | |
08-15-2008, 04:50 PM
|
#198 (permalink)
| Formerly: DracosTheBest Jobberknoll
Join Date: Apr 2006 Location: ♥Loving Felton
Posts: 4,030
| Snape is my man!
They were obviously not thinking of the fans when they made this decision
I was so excited for the movie & I was counting down the days till November
Thinking about it twice though, I think pushing it back to Summer of '09 is a good idea. It's gonna be huge & it's gonna be a major success especially during the summer when everyone goes to the movie theater.
| |
| | |
08-15-2008, 04:57 PM
|
#199 (permalink)
|  Resident Movie Critic
Sphinx
Join Date: Nov 2004 Location: al'taieu.
Posts: 47,896
| Seelow ☆ Overnight Celebrity ☆ Perky! ☆ Harley Quinn
Quote:
Originally Posted by LORDVOLDY  I am so depressed. They should be making the films for the fans, not 'the widest possible audience' or what ever. Now the question is...when will they release Movie 7 Part 1? It's not supposed to affect the release of DH part 1 :]
But um WB is still gonna make a huge profit off of it in the summer regardless of how many times you go see it. Just because it's summer doesn't mean people don't wanna go see movies. In fact, summer is the biggest time when it comes to movies. Studios put out big things in order to make profit because people are out of school and work. HBP's gonna make a killing regardless of how many times you go see it.
__________________ was this life a gift or a burden? | |
| | |
08-15-2008, 05:04 PM
|
#200 (permalink)
| | Murtlap
Join Date: May 2008
Posts: 59
Hogwarts RPG Name:
eva everest
First Year |
Thats's BS!!! I think we should boycott the movie at the theatres. If we can wait till next summer then we can wait a few weeks till it comes out on DVD if it fails at the box office.
| |
| | 
Posting Rules
| You may not post new threads You may not post replies You may not post attachments You may not edit your posts
HTML code is On
| | | All times are GMT. The time now is 06:10 PM. |
.png)
:
:
