A host of international release dates for “Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince” have now been posted on the official Harry Potter website. At this point several countries are scheduled to see the film several days before the US/UK release set for November 21, 2008. To see the entire list, click here.
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YAY!!!! On November 20th for Mexico!!! I’m so happy!! Last year OotP opened the 12th, a day later than USA, now it’s backwards, but I think it’s because it went very good last year in a Thursday release, and also this year the 20th, 21st, and rest of weekend are Holidays, it’s an important festivity in our country and I think this helps the midnight releases!!! Can’t wait!!!
Seriously,
This sucks so much. How is it that Australia (and NZ) get HBP on December 11th, whereas Lebanon gets it on Nov 27th and Israel gets it on the 20th.
Last time I checked neither countries were the safest places to be.
Explain the logic WB
A petition has already been started an needs more support:
http://www.ipetitions.com/petition/hbp_australia/index.html
Australia and others who see how completely ridiculous and unfair this is – send complaints to:
AUCustServ@warnerbros.com
And help get HBP released at the same time as the USA and UK in Australia and New Zealand.
i cant believe that the sme harry potter fever is goin 2 strt agan !!! this is so totally coooooooool!!!!!!!! i cant wait 2 wach dis movie !!!!! i hope its better than the 5 one cuz i was disappointed with dat!!!! anyways i just watched jane tu ya jane na and imraan khan is d bst!!!!!!!! :)
That address is for video releases. I’ve complained before and they said to complain to roadshow films, the film distributors:
roadshow_films@roadshow.com.au
i might just to make the 30 mins drive south the border to Mexico just to see it a day early on the 20th.. lol..
i’m soo excited.. can’t wait…
Okay, I just figured out why “HBP” is so delayed in AUS.
It’s because “Quantum of Solace” is being released on the 27th of November in AUS. Releasing two blockbusters so close together is bad for box office results.
And “Quantum of Solace” is being released this far behind the UK and USA in AUS because Baz Luhrmann’s “Australia” is being released on November 13th.
Neither WB or SONY want to put their box office results at risk by opening just a week before another blockbuster.
But to me this is all negligible because they risk loosing box office sales due to piracy instead.
Still, we’ll watch it online…
It’s better to release it on time. Everyone’ll go to both of those.
And why does ‘Australia’ change things?
So, these are the “official” dates…. but in the US we’re still likely to get a Wednesday midnight release, right? Even though it’s not summer? So that would be Nov. 19!! I am keeping my fingers crossed for that. :)
Approx UK/USA release dates
“Quantum of Solace” NOV 5 “Australia” NOV 14 “Half Blood Prince” NOV 21
Australia has a much smaller cinema going population than the UK and USA, so they’re a bit more strategic with their release dates down under.
Baz Lurhmann’s “Australia” has to be released first globally here, so it ain’t moving from NOV 13.
Sony decided to move “QOS” out of the way so that “Australia” doesn’t take its box office sales when is released a week later. So they moved it to NOV 27 instead.
And Warner doesn’t want “QOS” to steal box office sales from “HBP” so it moved it to DEC 11.
Like is said above though, it is all negligible because they risk loosing box office sales due to piracy instead.
Australia 3 weeks later than UK / US and most other countries… what??? Why for OoTP we had pretty much the same release date and now we are back to Dec 11? You would think by now they could do worldwide releases for these movies. I’m not happy… this is ridiculous :(