Due to “Harry Potter and the Half Blood Prince” moving it’s release date from Fall ‘08 to Summer ’09, cause Warner is out of tentpoles for next year, Summit Entertainment, the company behind the tween vampire romance movie, “Twilight” has decided to seize the moment and move the release date of their film from December 12th to November 21st.
Lying through his teeth, Summit’s Rob Friedman explains, “We by no means are trying to fill the shoes of the incredible Potter franchise for 2008, rather we are just looking to bring the fans of Stephenie Meyer’s incredible book series the film as soon possible from a programming perspective.” The movie based on the book of the same name will open in over 3,000 theaters and go head to head with Walt Disney Pictures’ “Bolt,” an animated film voiced by John Travolta and another tween phenomenon, the anti-phenomenal, Miley Cyrus. Both films, if you can call them that, will be competing for similar target audiences, but ‘Bolt,’ “unfortunately?” will have the upper hand having an audience of more than just young girls.
Meanwhile, fans of the ‘Boy Wizard’ are not happy, nor do they care about Warner Bros. lack of summer releases. ‘Half Blood Prince’ would have been ready for November and now these obsessives are pissed. Warner execs. better watch their back, because one morning they might just wake up with a unicorn head at the foot of their bed.
PS, Fox news says the reason WB is pushing ‘Potter is because its star Daniel Radcliffe will be in the middle of the unfamily-like, un-‘Potter’-like stageplay “Equus.” A stage event in which Radcliffe shows off his apparently prodigious wang.
“Radcliffe appears naked in the play, on stage, and has sex in it as well. That’s not the image Warner Bros. wants associated with bespectacled Harry, who remains chaste and virginal.”
