It's not like I haven't been waiting on pins & needles for 'Harry Potter and the Half Blood Prince' to come out in November. Oh no, not at all. Now the greedy bastards at Warner Bros. have apparently postponed the opening date until July of '09! Why? Because they're greedy bastards, that's why.
In a surprise move, Warner Brothers announced on Aug. 14 that it is delaying the release of Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince to July 17, 2009, from its original Nov. 11 opening date.
Alan Horn, (a greedy bastard) Warner's president and chief operating officer, cited two reasons for the move. "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," Horn said in a statement. "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."
The rest of the article is here.
Translation: We are greedy bastards, and we don't really give a crap that you fans have been looking forward to November, we are going to squeeze every last dollar out of you that we can. Why? Because we're greedy bastards, that's why.
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