Harry Potter 6 delayed

Warner Bros have announced some time ago (but I wasn't really paying any attention, so I just found out a couple of days ago) that the sixth movie in the Harry Potter series, "Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince" has been DELAYED and will now be released next summer (July 17, 2009 to be more precise), instead of the 21'st of November.

Here it what they said about it:

"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," says Alan Horn, the studio's president and COO.

"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."

Oh, COME ON!!!11oneeleven :-(

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