[HPFGU-OTChatter] Re: I HATE Warner Brothers!!! Movie date changed.

[P. Alexis Nguyen]

Geoff:
> Yes, but they announced the date of release about a year ago
> and they've recently released the first trailer so why the heck didn't
> they think of this one at the time?

Easy enough:  writers' strike then the SAG talks pretty much stalled
Hollywood in a big way, especially during the SAG talks when projects
weren't being greenlighted.  That means that, from a business
perspective, you push back your projects where you're certain of the
core audience to ensure that you don't hit a 3rd quarter slump next
year (I think 2nd quarter ... films take about a year to finish
usually and that's a little less than a year from when the SAG talks
happened).  As a pure guess, I'm also guessing that pushing back the
movie release, making it a shorter time span between the last few
movies, will help with momentum for the impending theme park.

And I'm pretty certain there's an article somewhere that I can back me
up (at least on the point about the strikes) ... let me go check the
BBC website.

~Ali