by Travis
Alan Horn of Warner Bros. issued a statement today in response to the many complaints about the delayed release of Half-Blood Prince:
Many of you have written to me to express your disappointment in our moving Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince to Summer 2009.
Please be assured that we share your love for Harry Potter and would certainly never [...]

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by Travis
Eric D. Snider debunks the following 4 Myths about the Half-Blood Prince movie delay:

Half-Blood Prince was moved because WB was scared of Twilight. (That one’s just silly.)
It got moved because WB was nervous about Daniel Radcliffe’s extra-curricular activities. (Referring to his appeared naked in Equus)
WB moved Half-Blood Prince to the one-year anniversary of The [...]

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Despite the fact that the supposed next big Potter event - the release of the Half-Blood Prince film - has been delayed till next summer, the Potterverse will be alive and kicking, with lots of key events, until that film release.  Here’s a breakdown, in as close to chronological order as possible.  Consider this your magical [...]

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Five more pictures from the Half-Blood Prince movie we now won’t see until July 17 of next year.  Images of Snape, Bellatrix, and Slughorn, and the Slug Club are of interest.  (HT to HPANA)

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This is going to disappoint a lot of folks (myself included).  Warner Bros has apparently decided to change the release of the film version of Half-Blood Prince to Summer 2009 (instead of Thanksgiving of this year).  
“Our reasons for shifting ‘Half-Blood Prince’ to summer are twofold: we know the summer season is an ideal window for [...]

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by Johnny
The trailer was released on MSN Video just after 8 p.m. and of course is on YouTube.  You can download a bigger, higher-resolution version of it here at AOL.  Be sure to vote in the poll (on the sidebar to the right) and share your thoughts in the comments.  Enjoy:

What do you think of the trailer?   [...]

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by Travis
Update:  HPANA reports that it will probably be online Tuesday, so we won’t even have to wait for The Mummy.
Reports today confirm the speculations of commenter Victoria that the first official Half-Blood Prince trailer will be released prior to The Mummy III on Thursday evening.
I can’t see myself paying for a Brendan Fraser movie just [...]

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by Johnny
Update 2:  IT’S ONLINE!
Update 7/29/08:  This is the old, 10 second trailer - images from the new trailer can be found here; will be available at AOL.com tonight at 9pm EST!

A little disappointing, but perhaps a longer trailer will come in August with The Mummy 3: Rise of the Dragon Emperor or another movie (I’ve [...]

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by Johnny
Update III: The Real Trailer is ONLINE (click here)!
Update II: It’s coming, for real, on Tuesday, July 29.
Update: It’s available! (sort of)
With more than four months till the film release of Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince, there is still no trailer (teaser or full) released as of yet. However with all the release [...]

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No Trelawney in film adaptation of Half-Blood Prince.  One wonders how they’ll do Harry’s learning that Snape was the snoop.

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