Half-Blood Prince Date change to July 17, 2009

[sartoris22]

--- In HPFGU-Movie at yahoogroups.com, "Gloria" <gloworm419 at ...> wrote:
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maybe they were taking into consideration what their main star Daniel 
> Radcliffe would have to do to promote this film with his co-stars 
> before the November release. Dan is in NYC right now preparing for 
> Equus. How would he be able to travel the country let alone the 
world 
> to do press for HBP if he's expected to do 8 shows a week on 
Broadway?
> He can't be in several places at once and I'm sure he would want to 
> participate with Emma & Rupert in promoting HBP. He finishes up in 
> February with Equus, so why couldn't WB at least release it after 
that?
> What does everyone else think? It's a thought...

sartoris22:

Publicity is an important consideration, and Radcliffe is starting 
rehearsels for Equus. You might have something there, but haven't 
they known for quite a while that Radcliffe is doing Equus?  With so 
many millions at stake, it seems odd that some studio person just 
realized that Radcliffe would be in a play in January when we all 
knew about it when he was promoting OOTP. Like you, I don't quite buy 
the Dark Knight explanation. I still think that there were problems 
in post production, and since they had to delay the opening, then why 
not delay it until July. I'm sure that there will be studio leaks and 
we'll find out more about it. Funnily enough, the delay gives Potter 
fans something new to talk about. One Potter site--sorry, I don't 
remember which--has already gathered 14,000 protest signatures. And 
I've heard people in this group talking about boycotting the film, 
although I must admit that I'll still be excited to see the movie in 
July. 
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