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'Half-Blood Prince' release pushed back
'Half-Blood Prince' release pushed back
Muggles, get ready for some bad news: There will be no Harry Potter movie this year. In a surprise move, Warner Bros. has moved back the release date of "Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince" from Nov. 21 to July 17, 2009. Warners president Alan Horn said in a statement that part of the reason for the shift was the writers strike, which left the studio in a bit of a dearth of tentpoles. ...
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Harry Potter Film Delayed Till Summer Next Year
FlicksNews.net — ... Hollywood Reporter just announced that the Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince has been delayed till next summer! In a surprise move, Warner Bros. has moved back the release date of "Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince" from Nov. 21 to July 17, 2009. Warners president Alan Horn said in a statement that part of the reason for the shift was the writers strike, which left the studio in a bit of a dearth of tentpoles. "Like every other studio, we are still feeling the repercussions of the writers strike, which impacted the readiness of scripts ...

Warner Doesn't Care About Harry Potter-Lovers' Fragile Psyches
I Watch Stuff - The Best Movie News Ever — Bad news for people who like those kid wizard books that became kid wizard movies: Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince has been pushed back from November of this year to July 17, 2009 because Warner thinks it would make more money then. To summarize:

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