Entertainment Weekly reports Warner Brothers has announced that the sixth Harry Potter film, Harry Potter and the Half Blood Prince, will not be released in November of 2008 as previously planned. The new release date is July 17, 2009. The motivation for the delay is simple: money. Summer releases of family-oriented films make more money. Elsewhere it is reported that the final book, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, will be split and made into two films.
Incidentally, if you like Harry Potter and have not tried the Harry Potter CDs narrated by actor Jim Dale, you really should. Dale is a marvelous voice actor; he has developed a distinctive sound for each major character, male or female. The other DrC and I own all seven CD sets and listen to them in the car or RV as we travel.
