# No New HP Movie Until Next Summer **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [August 15, 2008, 1:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/no-new-hp-movie-until-next-summer/460049 "2008-08-15T01:05:27Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 9\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Bryan\_Ekers](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bryan_ekers/32/183_2.png) [@Bryan\_Ekers](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bryan_Ekers)\ **Post date:** [August 16, 2008, 3:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/no-new-hp-movie-until-next-summer/460049/21 "2008-08-16T03:37:11Z")
[QUOTE=GuanoLad] Emma Watson is not pregnant, it was clearly Bryan Ekers making a joke that seems to have backfired. [/QUOTE] Hey, it’s not my fault some people (or even a lot of people) didn’t get it. ---
**Author:** ![GuanoLad](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guanolad/32/42_2.png) [@GuanoLad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GuanoLad)\ **Post date:** [August 16, 2008, 3:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/no-new-hp-movie-until-next-summer/460049/22 "2008-08-16T03:51:41Z")
[QUOTE=Bryan Ekers] Hey, it’s not my fault some people (or even a lot of people) didn’t get it. [/QUOTE] I know. I don’t think a (literal or figurative) backfire is anybody’s fault, just one of those hazards. Meanwhile, Emma Watson just [passed her exams](http://www.people.com/people/article/0,,20219417,00.html). ---
**Author:** ![Sampiro](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/2acd7d/32.png) [@Sampiro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sampiro)\ **Post date:** [August 16, 2008, 4:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/no-new-hp-movie-until-next-summer/460049/23 "2008-08-16T04:06:39Z")
[QUOTE=Bryan Ekers] What, are they shooting around Emma Watson’s pregnancy, or something? [/QUOTE] They should never have let that girl around Jim Broadbent! He does this every time he’s on the set with a teen actress. No woman can be expected to resist him and he doesn’t even try to resist them. I think the decision to wait until summer is a really really bad one. As mentioned, the movie’s going to gross hundreds of millions if it opens in Linz, Austria on Hitler’s birthday, **BUT** with the book series being completed the momentum’s already starting to contract a little, but with Christmas and the [Beedle the Bard book](http://www.amazon.com/Tales-Beedle-Bard-Standard/dp/B001DB0HG2/ref=pd_bbs_sr_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1218859495&sr=8-1) it could really help rekindle the flames. It’s very probable that by waiting 6 more months they’ll make some fans, especially the younger ones, say “eh… I’m over it, I’ll catch it on DVD”. Plus, my understanding is they’ve got two more movies to do (_Deathly Hallows_ has been split into two films), so this isn’t their last chance to cash in.) ---
**Author:** ![Siam\_Sam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/d78d45/32.png) [@Siam\_Sam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Siam_Sam)\ **Post date:** [August 16, 2008, 4:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/no-new-hp-movie-until-next-summer/460049/24 "2008-08-16T04:10:24Z")
The wife and I enjoy the Harry Potter films, but we can’t get all that excited about them, because they have to condense _so much_ into so little time that we find too much gets lost. We’ve read the entire series, so we can definitely wait for the movies to come out. ---
**Author:** ![Equipoise](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/equipoise/32/151_2.png) [@Equipoise](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Equipoise)\ **Post date:** [August 16, 2008, 4:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/no-new-hp-movie-until-next-summer/460049/25 "2008-08-16T04:24:11Z")
The just-released issue of Entertainment Weekly is the annual Fall Movie Preview, and guess who’s on the cover? Yep, Harry himself! I love [EW’s take](http://hollywoodinsider.ew.com/2008/08/news-flash-harr.html) on their online site. > [@](#): > > Entertainment Weekly’s early look at the new Harry Potter movie just a got a whole lot earlier. In a last-minute move, Warner Bros. has just announced that the studio is pulling Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince from its fall lineup and rescheduled it for July 17, 2009. In an irony sure to set blogger hearts beating giddily, the film graces the cover of EW’s new fall preview issue, which hits stands today. EW and Warner Bros. share a parent company, but **they clearly do not share, you know, important friggin’ information**. HAHAHA! ---
**Author:** ![Starving\_Artist](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/aeb1de/32.png) [@Starving\_Artist](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Starving_Artist)\ **Post date:** [August 16, 2008, 7:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/no-new-hp-movie-until-next-summer/460049/26 "2008-08-16T07:46:38Z")
According to Roger Friedman, Fox’s gossip columnist, the delay is due to Warner Bros. wanting to avoid having the movie come out while Daniel Radcliffe is naked and (apparently, based on Friedman’s comments) blinding/having sex with horses in the play _Equus_. Radcliffe’s run is expected to be over by the time the movie is released. [Link](http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,404681,00.html) ---
**Author:** ![Shirley\_Ujest](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/45deac/32.png) [@Shirley\_Ujest](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shirley_Ujest)\ **Post date:** [August 16, 2008, 8:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/no-new-hp-movie-until-next-summer/460049/27 "2008-08-16T08:39:52Z")
From that above linkie, " A spot opened up in the summer schedule." One would think that a Harry Potter flick could choose its own spot or say, " The opening will be on this date. Neener neener." ---
**Author:** ![eleanorigby](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/ee7513/32.png) [@eleanorigby](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/eleanorigby)\ **Post date:** [August 16, 2008, 2:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/no-new-hp-movie-until-next-summer/460049/28 "2008-08-16T14:52:52Z")
[QUOTE=Shirley Ujest] From that above linkie, " A spot opened up in the summer schedule." One would think that a Harry Potter flick could choose its own spot or say, " The opening will be on this date. Neener neener." [/QUOTE] Exactly. And the Equus thing is so old news–the photos have been all over the intenet etc, so I think WB is being exceptionally prudish here. ---
**Author:** ![Moirai](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/96bed5/32.png) [@Moirai](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Moirai)\ **Post date:** [August 16, 2008, 4:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/no-new-hp-movie-until-next-summer/460049/29 "2008-08-16T16:50:06Z")
[QUOTE=Siam Sam] The wife and I enjoy the Harry Potter films, but we can’t get all that excited about them, because they have to condense _so much_ into so little time that we find too much gets lost. We’ve read the entire series, so we can definitely wait for the movies to come out. [/QUOTE] Then you’ll be pleased to know that the seventh installment, _The Deathly Hallows_, will be split into two films, presumably so that nothing important will be left out. _Not for the money, or anything…_ ETA- and yeah, it’s about 2009 grosses more than anything else… [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/no-new-hp-movie-until-next-summer/460049.md?page=1)