Clues to POA deleted or extended scenes

[susanbones2003]

--- In HPFGU-Movie at yahoogroups.com, "Eustace_Scrubb" <dk59us at y...> 
wrote:
>  Jennifer:
> > I don't know if this has been reported but I saw Chris Columbus 
on 
> > TV say there weren't many deleted scenes from POA, "What you see 
is 
> > what we filmed" he said. He was explaining why the DVD wouldn't
> have 
> > a whole raft of them.
> 
> Eustace_Scrubb again:
> Well, that was the Warner Brothers party line on the first two 
movies
> and why there was no "extended" DVD, something along the lines 
of "The
> director's cut is what we released in the theaters," yadayadayada. 
> Yet they had a significant number of deleted scenes on the 2nd DVD 
of
> each.  Then when they showed SS/PS on network TV, they in fact
> integrated most of those scenes into the movie.  A number of the 
COS
> deleted scenes would have improved that movie had they been 
included
> and maybe when that's on TV we'll get to see them.
> 
> Other posts on this thread seem to suggest that there were three or
> four fairly significant scenes filmed but deleted and that there 
may
> have been 20-30 minutes edited off.  So I'll take Chris Columbus'
> statements with interest but also with a grain of salt.
> 
> At the very least, it seems that WB is missing a big opportunity 
for
> additional revenue.
> 
> Cheers,
> 
> Eustace_Scrubb

Eustace,
 WB is really missing out on how nuts we adults are for Harry and 
how much more they'd pull in if they did a director's cut. I didn't 
know that WB had done this song and dance about few deleted scenes 
earlier. Did you see the ABC screening of HP and the Sorcerer's 
Stone before POA came out? The deleted scenes were in and the whole 
picture made so much more sense and was so much better. What's the 
point of releasing a movie that's more like swiss cheese if you have 
the capacity easily make a better picture???