The 6th Harry Potter film was delayed to July 17, 2009. This did NOT happen because the film was behind schedule. The film is in fact FINISHED! Everything is fully completed: all the visual effects, all the scenes, EVERYTHING!
This also has NOTHING to do with Daniel's broadway play, Equus. If it did then WB would have done the same thing last year when Order of the Phoenix came out because Daniel was doing Equus in West End at that time and the movie still made close a billion dollars.
The film was pushed back because WB was not expecting The Dark Knight to make so much money. So they decided that instead of releasing their next huge, money making film aka Harry Potter and the Half Blood Prince...during the same year they would push it back to Summer 2009. They're reasons for doing this are because they believe the movie will be more successful if it's released during the summer like the Dark Knight and the 5th Harry Potter movie because of something that has to do with a "family tent pole"...whatever that means.
This delay does NOT have anything to do with Twilight. Summit Entertainment and a lot of other films jumped at the chance to get this newly available release date because they want their films to come out earlier and the Nov. 21st time slot is a really good one.
Now, YES! fans are NOT happy. They have in fact protested and WB has responded to say that they really do care alot about their fans and about the HP movies which is one of their reasons for the delay in the first place because it will give them more time to promote it and also as a bonus to the fans it will make the time between movie 6 and the first part of movie 7 shorter. But they will NOT be altering this decision in anyway. It's a done deal. The End!
p.s. i'm a huge HP fan.
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