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Script problems on the last two installments of Harry Potter (both from the same book Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows) has forced the studio to move back the release date of the next installment, Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince. A strange move, chalked up officially to a desire to release the flick during the summer rush.

Clearly, that explanation is just fluff. Usually when studios move movie releases, it is because they either don’t want to compete with a movie opening at the same time, or they do want to compete with another movie opening at the new release time. But any Harry Potter flick would blow any movie out of the water regardless of the time of year, even if the film sucks.

The script problems were attributed to the writer’s strike that last 3 months (and didn’t affect the Half-Blood Prince), but maybe the real story is that Warner Bros. is having a harder time than expected of dividing Deathly Hallows into two fully-formed movies. It’s been done (Kill Bill comes to mind) and done well, but there was already a lot of consternation about splitting Deathly Hallows in two. Even more interesting, the release date for the first movie installment of Deathly Hallows is unchanged. It’s still November 2010 (though that date is officially “tentative”).

Another plausible reason for the delay: Half-Blood Prince the film isn’t as strong as they would have liked (the book is a bit of a throw-away) and they need another 8 months to shore up some of the editing.

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