`Twilight’ Steps Up When `Harry Potter’ Gets Delayed
Harry Potter fans will have to wait almost another year before they can see the sixth movie, Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince. Originally scheduled for a theater release date of November 21, 2008, the film was pushed back by Warner Bros. to next summer, July 17, 2009. Officially, there are no production delays, this is just a business decision.
Okay, so the film is being delayed; however, not all Time Warner companies (parent company to Warner Bros. and Entertainment Weekly, among others) got the Harry Potter memo. Magazine Entertainment Weekly (EW) will be featuring Potter star Daniel Radcliffe on the cover of its August 22-29 fall-preview issue with a six-page spread on the inside to start the buzz about his fall release.
Oops. But, hey, I guess this just gets the buzz and excitement started early.
EW is taking it all in stride, with a laugh no less. Warner Bros. did alert EW to the date changes, but not in time for the print version to change. Online, there is a note about the release date being moved. There are also comical statements about the error on EW’s Hollywood Insider blog, joking that this issue will be a collectible.
The original date, the weekend before Thanskgiving, is annually of the best-selling dates for movie releases. As Harry Potter ducked back to accommodate a later time, Twilight stepped up. Based on Stephenie Meyer’s best-selling vampire series of the same name, Twilight was set to debut December 12, but with Harry out of the way as competition, will now be released on the popular money-making November 21.
October 27th, 2008 at 9:26 am
[...] it was announced that the upcoming Harry Potter film - Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince - would be pushed back from its original intended release date of Thanksgiving [...]