Oh, you were already planning your thanksgiving vacation around the release of the sixth “Harry Potter” movie? Too fucking bad, because Warner Bros. has made the decision to bump the release of the film to July of 2009. And yes, in case you were wondering, that is almost a year away. Seriously WB? You release that kick ass trailer, get us all pumped up, then pull it away like a vindictive older sibling on a power trip.
The head guy over at WB, Alan Horn, said in defense of the madness, “Like every other studio, we are still feeling the repercussions of the writer’s strike, which impacted the readiness of the scripts for other films, changing the competitive landscape for 2009 and offering new windows of opportunity that we wanted to take advantage of.”
Translation: We don’t have jack-shit as far as tentpoles go for 2009 and we know no one else does either (thanks to those god damn greedy writers), and so moving “Harry Potter” is our only hope of taking advantage of that while saving our own asses (it’s only competition as of right now will be Will Ferrell’s “Land Of The Lost” with Danny McBride).
Maybe this also part of that whole “WB has too many films fire-sale problem” they’re currently having which includes trying to sell-off films they bought like Guy Ritchie’s “Rock N Rolla” and Danny Boyle’s “Slumdog Millionaire.”
Well, we guess that means “Twilight” will be ruling supreme this winter as the tween hit…god save us all.
