Next Harry Potter ‘Half-Blood Prince’ pushed back to July 2009

Bad news for the millions of Harry Potter fans around the world who have already been waiting more than a year to watch the next movie in the series. The release date for the sixth Harry Potter movie, “Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince,” has reportedly just been pushed back on Thursday from its original slot in November 2008, to July 2009.  Trailers for “Half-Blood Prince” began running last week in advance of the expected November movie release worldwide. So what happened? It seems to be greed, quite frankly. Warner Bros., decided to make the change to the release schedule for the lucrative summer moviegoing season that can account for as much as 40 percent of Hollywood’s annual box office receipts. The studio said the change of date would not alter production plans for the final, two-part Potter movie adventure, “Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows,” the seventh and last story from British author J.K. Rowling The release date for part one is tentatively set for November 2010.