Business Implications of a Two-Part GoF Movie

[boyblue_mn]

--- In HPFGU-Movie at y..., "cindysphynx" <cindysphynx at h...> wrote:
> As we've all heard, they are thinking of doing a two-part GoF movie. 
> 
> I was wondering what the business implications of doing this might 
be.  So far as I know, there has never been a major motion picture  
that was released in two parts, four weeks apart. Setting aside 
whether the fans on the list would like to see as much HP as we can 
get, I wonder how the folks at Warner Brothers are sorting this out.  
>... edited ...

I think they may have learn their lesson from the first movie. To 
Harry Potter fans the movie was incredably short and passed over and 
zoomed through many parts of the story. Most real fan thought the 
movie was too short.

The original cut of the movie was 4 hours long, but I think they 
trimmed it down thinking that most 'kids' couldn't sit still for that 
long. So they trimmed it down to what they considered a tolerable 
length.

I think what they should have done with the first movie and what they 
do with the other up coming movies is leave them full length with an 
intermission about half way through.

I know I could have easily sat through the full 4 hour version.

Also, there is a petition on the internet somewhere, demanding that 
Warner release the full 4 hour version when it is released on DVD.