Abracadabra! Poof! Harry Potter Disappears!!!

"HARRY POTTER DISAPPEARS UNTIL NEXT YEAR"
DAVID GERMAIN | August 14, 2008 06:04 PM EST



LOS ANGELES — It's summer school for Harry Potter.

"Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince," the sixth installment in
the blockbuster film franchise about boy wizard Harry, is moving from
its planned Nov. 21 release to July 17, 2009, distributor Warner Bros.
said Thursday.
The move was made to take advantage of
an open weekend in Hollywood's busy summer season, said Alan Horn,
Warner Bros. president and chief operating officer. The film had been
on schedule, and the change was not due to any production snags, he
said.

"The picture is completely, absolutely, 100 percent on schedule, on
time. There were no delays," Horn told The Associated Press. "I've seen
the movie. It is fabulous. We would have been perfectly able to have it
out in November."

The switch will mean a two-year lag between the film adaptations of
books five and six in J.K. Rowling's fantasy series. But it will
shorten fans' wait between "Half-Blood Prince" and the final two
installments, which are being shot simultaneously next year.

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