Harry Potter 6 Moved to 2009!

[The Borgified Corpse]

As for Harry Potter, this won't be the first time it's a summer movie, will it? I thought OotP was release in June or July?

Yeah, that was a July movie, and Prisoner of Azkaban came out in June.

You're correct. The Prisoner of Azkaban & The Order of the Phoenix were released in the summer. That doesn't mean it felt right. (The Prisoner of Azkaban especially, with all of its Halloween/autumn imagery, would have played so much better in October-December than in June. That's probably half of why it's my least favorite of the series.)

 

[V]

http://www.comingsoon.net/news/movienews.php?id=48033

Big News: Twilight to usurp Harry Potter 6

HP 6 was supposed to come out November 21, the weekend before Thanksgiving; thus all of the families getting together for the holiday would take the kids out to see it. Thus, this date is a prime movie-going weekend.

Twilight would have come out December 12th.

Without HP 6, Twilight has bumped up its release date to the cushy release date of "November 21", thus trying to usurp Harry Potter's place, as "the hot new book adaptation that fangirls obsess over"

 

[Christopher]

As for Harry Potter, this won't be the first time it's a summer movie, will it? I thought OotP was release in June or July?

Yeah, that was a July movie, and Prisoner of Azkaban came out in June.

You're correct. The Prisoner of Azkaban & The Order of the Phoenix were released in the summer. That doesn't mean it felt right. (The Prisoner of Azkaban especially, with all of its Halloween/autumn imagery, would have played so much better in October-December than in June. That's probably half of why it's my least favorite of the series.)

Except for the first couple of films, they've been coming out 18 months apart, so it's alternated between summer and winter. Although now we get a 2-year gap, probably followed by a 1-year gap between HP6 & HP7.

 

[Trent Roman]

Nope. The first part of HP7 is slated for release in November 2010. So, really, there would have been a two-year gap on one side of HP6 or the other. (The second part is scheduled for May 2011, so right on the heels of the previous part, which they can do since they're filming both together).

Fictitiously yours, Trent Roman

 

[JacksonArcher]

You're correct. The Prisoner of Azkaban & The Order of the Phoenix were released in the summer. That doesn't mean it felt right. (The Prisoner of Azkaban especially, with all of its Halloween/autumn imagery, would have played so much better in October-December than in June. That's probably half of why it's my least favorite of the series.)

Really? Prisoner of Azkaban is my favourite of the Harry Potter films. I felt the series was beginning to feel stale with Columbus and Alfonso Cuaron came in and infected a sense of new life right at the critical time.

 

[Thespeckledkiwi]

http://www.comingsoon.net/news/movienews.php?id=48033

Big News: Twilight to usurp Harry Potter 6

HP 6 was supposed to come out November 21, the weekend before Thanksgiving; thus all of the families getting together for the holiday would take the kids out to see it. Thus, this date is a prime movie-going weekend.

Twilight would have come out December 12th.

Without HP 6, Twilight has bumped up its release date to the cushy release date of "November 21", thus trying to usurp Harry Potter's place, as "the hot new book adaptation that fangirls obsess over"

What is Twilight about? I know Breaking Dawn was a massive release...

 

[Dream]

What is Twilight about? I know Breaking Dawn was a massive release...

It's a movie based on a book series about teenage girl falling in love with a vampire. It will do well because of the teenage girls that will go see it.


With Potter out of the way then Disney's Bolt should be making way more money then it was going to originally.

 

[V]

What is Twilight about? I know Breaking Dawn was a massive release...

It's a movie based on a book series about teenage girl falling in love with a vampire. It will do well because of the teenage girls that will go see it.


With Potter out of the way then Disney's Bolt should be making way more money then it was going to originally.

critic reviews of it I have read say its not actually that great of a book, but it really appeals to the "shippers" and an army of fangirls like "Titanic" before

 

[Cicero]

well, lets see what this means for us: what else is in the "competitive landscape" for winter 2008? Oh, I really do think it was simply due to the Writers' Strike leaving some rough edges (that's why Trek got pushed back), and further, the studio might have wanted to stay competitive with Star Trek and had nothing else to run against it, so rather than let it go unchallenged, decided to move to summer to make sure they stay in a head to head competition:

but what is out now in the "winter 2008" season? :

Well Harry Potter 6 was slated for November, but here's what we have that looks big:

• October 10 - City of Ember
• October 24 - Saw V
• October 31 - Zack and Miri Make a Porno (Directed by Kevin Smith and starring Seth Rogen)
• November 7 - Quantum of Solace - (James Bond #22), Repo!: The Genetic Opera
• November 11 - The Road (post-apocalyptic film starring Viggo Mortensen)
• November 30 - Game (starring Gerard Butler, as "an unwilling participant in an online game in which participants can control human beings as players")
• November 5 - Punisher: War Zone
• December 12 - The Day the Earth Stood Still (remake), Defiance (Daniel Craig stars as a leader of Jewish partisan fighters during World War II), Twilight (adapted from a Vampire-starscroosed-lovers 2005-novel between a vampire boy and human girl, targeted at the teen fangirl audience: apparently the book series has taken the nation by storm....I myself had never heard of it, until ***It completely overran Comic-Con, with hysterical Twilight-fangirls completely swarming their live-action movie panel. Will probably hook the Titanic-crowd.
• December 19 - The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
• December 25 - The Spirit (film noir old-old-school crimefighter tale written AND directed by Frank Miller, and starring Samuel L. Jackson), and "9" a scifi stop-motion thing starring Elijah Wood

That's . . . disappointing. I have no idea what I'll see on Thanksgiving, the Winter Solstice, Christmas, and New Year's day. Most winters, I see at least four movies, but I don't see anything on the release schedule that looks good.

 

[Neeka Keet]

What is Twilight about? I know Breaking Dawn was a massive release...

It's a movie based on a book series about teenage girl falling in love with a vampire. It will do well because of the teenage girls that will go see it.


With Potter out of the way then Disney's Bolt should be making way more money then it was going to originally.

critic reviews of it I have read say its not actually that great of a book, but it really appeals to the "shippers" and an army of fangirls like "Titanic" before

I know Harry Potter ain't Dickens, but god how I loathe those crappy Twilight novels.

 

[Bob The Skutter]

It's a movie based on a book series about teenage girl falling in love with a vampire. It will do well because of the teenage girls that will go see it.


With Potter out of the way then Disney's Bolt should be making way more money then it was going to originally.

critic reviews of it I have read say its not actually that great of a book, but it really appeals to the "shippers" and an army of fangirls like "Titanic" before

I know Harry Potter ain't Dickens, but god how I loathe those crappy Twilight novels.

I've just started reading the first one, on the recommendation of a friend and it doesn't seem to be too bad so far. Sure it's a little "Vampire fangirl shipper-y" but I'm 95 pages in and it doesn't seem too terrible.

 

[Trippy]

^I am no teenager, but I love those books!

I'll go see the movie too...but I'd rather see Half Blood Prince in November

 

[Trent Roman]

critic reviews of it I have read say its not actually that great of a book, but it really appeals to the "shippers" and an army of fangirls like "Titanic" before

Confirmed. I was really excited when I first heard about this series, because the premise (vampires out in the open) resembled a short story I'd written (sold and due to be published any year now) and had always wanted to expand upon. I wanted to see how this world had tackle the premise differently than I did, and to what extent I should modify my own plans to avoid accusation of plagiarism.

Unfortunately, the book barely deals with the premise and the manifold social ramifications that ought to logically follow. Instead, it was this emo, soap opera, Romeo and Juliet wannabe, little more than an overblown Harlequin romance. I forced myself to finish it, out of morbid curiosity if nothing else, but that's not an experience I'd ever care to repeat.

Fictitiously yours, Trent Roman

 

[Christopher]

I know Harry Potter ain't Dickens...

Well, who knows? Dickens's works weren't considered rarefied great literature when they were first published; many of them were serialized novels in magazines, the equivalent of today's TV serials and soap operas. They were considered quality works of popular entertainment, just as Rowling's books are today. We can't predict what future generations may or may not define as classic literature.

 

[Neeka Keet]

I know Harry Potter ain't Dickens...

Well, who knows? Dickens's works weren't considered rarefied great literature when they were first published; many of them were serialized novels in magazines, the equivalent of today's TV serials and soap operas. They were considered quality works of popular entertainment, just as Rowling's books are today. We can't predict what future generations may or may not define as classic literature.

I agree, but the way some intellectual snobs go on about it I prefer to be cautious with my praise of JK Rowling's work so as to not have my head bitten off.

 

[Christopher]

^^To each one's own. For me, if the snobs bash something, that's all the more reason to assert my fondness for it with pride.

 

[Danoz]

That is stiff competition... now, if only Paramount would use this as an excuse to bring back our '08 Star Trek!

That would be the best move, honestly... and I'm not just saying that out of my own narcissistic desire to see the movie now. I don't think Star Trek will have a chance against Harry Potter and Christian Bale in a new Terminator movie. Star Trek has an unfortunate stigma right now. Modern day kids see it as a relic of the science fiction of the past; simply put, it's not "cool" to like Star Trek. Terminator, Harry Potter and even the entire slew of comic-based novels won't suffer from this stigma.

If Paramount is going to cut through all of that, they're not going to do it against two monsters that are already "cool" to like. And Harry Potter shouldn't have pushed forward... if they were smart, they would know that NOTHING can compete with the new Potter movie.

 

[Christopher]

I don't think Star Trek will have a chance against Harry Potter and Christian Bale in a new Terminator movie.

Err, Star Trek is coming out May 8th, while Harry Potter 6 is scheduled for July 17th, 10 weeks later. These days, 10 weeks is a long run for even a really successful film. So ST and HP6 aren't even in competition.

As for Terminator, that comes out 2 weeks after ST. And studios these days measure success based mostly on performance in the first week or so, even the first weekend, don't they?

Star Trek has an unfortunate stigma right now. Modern day kids see it as a relic of the science fiction of the past; simply put, it's not "cool" to like Star Trek. Terminator, Harry Potter and even the entire slew of comic-based novels won't suffer from this stigma.

No movie ever succeeds by appealing to the SF community alone. Those people who are even aware enough of what's "cool" or not in SF are just a small percentage of the audience any summer blockbuster is going to need to score a hit. Even if there is a segment of the audience that sees things the way you claim (and I've seen no evidence of such a thing), they wouldn't outnumber the people coming to see this film because it's from J.J. Abrams or because they want to see Eric Bana or Karl Urban or Chris Pine or Zachary Quinto or Zoe Saldana.

 

[Neeka Keet]

^True. I guess I'm just a coward about some things.

 

[darkwing_duck1]

Meh, I think the whole Potter thing has played out anyway. And this is coming from a fan.

I think so too...the crappy writing of the last two books (but esp Deathly Hallows) didn't help any...