Confirmed: Change to US "Order of the Phoenix" Release Date, Now July 11
OotP FilmMay 29, 2007, 06:01 PM
Update: Now confirmed to TLC by Warner Brothers:
Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix will open in the US on July 11, 2007
No reason was given to us for the change, however as Coming Soon first reported, "this will give the movie a potential big five-day opening, from Wednesday through Sunday." Readers will remember that in the UK, the OotP release date was moved one day earlier to July 12.
Thanks to everyone who has mailed!
ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh! i am so happy!!!!!!!!!!!!! two days less!!!!!! i got a stitch in my side from jumping around so much!
ok that has to be the best thing ive heard all day.
I'm sorry your plans have been foiled like that, flik258. :( I hope you can work something out.
Okay, so does this mean there will be a midnight release for this or not??? I would expect that wouldn't change, now it will be midnight on Wed rather than Friday. No matter when it is I can't wait!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Why the date change? I am so confuse. :( Explain to me why? I want to know and we will understand. :D
DOES THAT MEAN FOR CANADA ASWELL?
Great news, maybe the WB will have 8 P.M. showings on Tuesday (I am going on vacation and will come back on the day of the new release date for OOTP) and I can see it at IMAX.
This is all so bizarre. Loads of the publicity is gonna have to be altered. And my feeling of British smugness has evaporated.
For those of you saying that this will increase their weekend numbers, look at Star Wars. The prequel trilogy would have had the highest opening weekends if Thursday counted, but they don't so all three never had the highest box office. The only reason I can think of is so that they can have more time before the book comes out since all the fans of the books won't go and see it the second weekend, which will probably cause a huge dropoff. Also, please no one say they hope the book is coming out earlier, because it's bad enough that those of us who have to work will have a hard time getting wednesday off, but to try and ask for time off two weeks in a row is alomost insane.
Personally I am mad since this will greater decrease the amount of fans that will be there at midnight and I enjoy going opening night to spend time with my fellow Potter fans. I almost want to say screw you WB.
Sorry, got a bit carried away.
Not that it matters to me because i'm in Australia, so we have to wait longer for EVRYTHING. at least the international date line works in our favour...)
I bet it is to avoid other movie releases as much as possible. comingsoon.net showed about five other fils set for release on 13.07.07 and only one other for 11.07.07. Guess that's why Pete Jackson did the same with LOTR.
if it were here in Australia i'd say it was to take advantage of late night shopping (we have extended trading on thursday nights in Aus), but i'm not sure if US and UK shopping is 24/7 yet.
AAHH I just wanted to share my excitement with you all because this means that I will actually get to see it! I'm leaving for Europe on the 12th and wouldn't have gotten a chance to see it until I returned on the 29th!! Now I get to see it before I leave!! yay!!
one question: will the ootp countdown widgets be fixed or are they already fixed?
I just can't understand why they did this so late... they've promoted the july 13th release date all over the place... so much is going to have to be changed! including the trailer that's airing all across america! so odd...
I'm happy and disappointed at the same time. July 13th is my birthday and I was looking forward to having Harry Potter as my present. Oh well... two days earlier isn't too bad.
All this hype about "opening weekend grosses" and records etc. amounts to bragging rights for studio executives... http://www.forbes.com/2001/03/02/0302movies.html is a few years old, but it certainly enlightens.
I'd love to see OotP be the most popular movie of the summer... from the stills and trailers, I think OotP is going to be more successful than anticipated... the SPECTACLE of it all... and unlike SpiderMan3 which was basically a CGI 'cartoon' of New York (I liked it I admit), OotP is going to be SPECTACULAR and I think more than just us fans are going to see it more than once...OotP has the power to make fans of the indifferent... I mean, once you've seen it in the regular theatre, and are blown away, won't you go see it AGAIN in IMAX with 20 minutes of 3D footage??
I predict that even in the context of ~$200 million dollar productions, OotP will get "EE" for "exceeds expectations" from WB and the non-hardcore HP fan... us hardcore fans have pretty darn high expections, and even if they're just "met" it'll be AMAZING.
