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I’m sorry but is there a friggin reason why Australia/NZ gets HPB later than most countries?

We are after all english speaking countries. Is it perhaps that WB can’t pay for the films to navigate through hell to down under? Are we just sooooooooo far away that the Hubble telescope can’t even take a picture of us.

Please explain WB?

WHY!!!!

we are like 2 weeks later! Australia is usually on par with the world on release dates… this is so unfair! I’d boycott this movie if i didn’t want to see it so badly!

It’s actually 3 weeks, not 2

grumble

Poor Australians… and they don’t even have to dub it like in other countries! It’s so unfair!

If you think it’s unfair, help us with the petition!

http://www.ipetitions.com/petition/hbp_australia/index.html

I’m sorry, but what does a country’s “safety” or supposed lack thereof have to do with when the movie is released? I’m from Australia, and am very upset that we are getting the movie three weeks late, but to say that Israel and Lebanon are unsafe countries and thus shouldn’t get the movie before Australia is irrelevant. But I don’t want to get into politics, because that’s not what this board is about….

What I will say is that WB are just silly. The same thing happened with Order, they were going to release it in Australia a couple of months after the rest of the world. A petition was started up and they changed the date, with Australia ultimately getting it before the United States. What I don’t understand is why repeat the sins of the past? They got bad press then, why repeat the process now? They should have learnt from their mistakes and released it the same time as everywhere else. This is Harry Potter, a series which has already five films under its belt, people are going to see the film, regardless of when it is released!

Likewise, they are simply proliferating film piracy. The general public will not wait that long to see this movie and may turn to illegal websites to download it. Let’s hope they change their minds!

Why Bulgaria is not in the list?

Here the movie is planed to come on november 28-th

i guess the higher they pay the earlier they release LOL maybe =)

Yes !!! For once, I am SO glad to be Belgian !

For my fellow Australians complaining about the late release, as well as those in New Zealand, and I suspect South Africa as well, they are doing it for exactly the same reason that we got GOF in December 2005 instead of November 2005 -school holidays.

If they release the film on in November, about a month before most teenagers are on holidays, they will miss out on all those weekdays where teenagers go to the movies multiple times early in a film’s release.

If they wait until December 11th, private schools are on holidays and they don’t have to wait long for the other schools so they will pick up all that weekday business.

People can carry on about piracy all they like but clearly it didn’t affect them with GOF or they wouldn’t be doing this again. Plus there are many people who don’t want to see a pirated version before seeing it on the big screen. It’s just not the same experience.

OOTP was different. It was the difference between picking up a couple of weeks of school holidays business in September rather than 4-5 weeks of weekday showings for GOF and HBP over summer. Clearly they decided it wasn’t worth the grief of delaying OOTP it that long and we got it when everyone else did. The very fact that they are still delayin HBP this time, despite what they did last time, makes it clear they believe it IS worth the extra box office to delay it.

I want to see this film as early as the next person, but if you think a petition is going to make a difference you are sadly mistaken. If WB thought they would make just as much money by releasing it in November, they would do just that.

By holidays START on Nov 21!!!!!!

I can’t wait three weeks DURING HOLIDAYS!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Sorry if I offended anyone with saying that Lebanon and Israel were unsafe and shouldn’t get it before us etc. I was just so annoyed I had to say something, anyways, let’s not bring politics into this.

I agree with gilyweed. Yes, it has most likely got to do with the school holidays down here. I know my school gets off on the 4th or 5th (private school). But the public schools don’t get off ‘till the 19th. So from that point i do see why they’re holding it back.

But are all the countries that get HBP in November on school holidays during that timeframe?

Urgh, I guess WB wins then. Releasing it a week before the holidays does make sense. I surrender.

It’s going to be a very painful 3 weeks though. =(

I have to disagree…. Piracy is on the rise and has, without a doubt, been perfected and increased in the three years since the release of Goblet. What the WB should be worried about, is not the hardcore fans being upset, the ones who would see it regardless of when the film is released, but rather, should be worried about the casual fans, or the people who go to a movie for the sake of going out. These are the ones who just want to pass the time watching a movie, not caring if it’s on the big screen or in their home on bad quality, but which ever comes first. And even if people download it and watch it, and then go to the movies to see it on the big screen to get that experience, they are still cutting down on repeat viewings.

I also clearly think that a petition would work, why else would they change Order otherwise? They didn’t want people to download it, or to be upset with them, so they changed it. The same can happen with this film and petition. And really, if many other major blockbuster can come out at the same time or within a few days of the American release and still do massive business, then why can’t Harry Potter do the same? Take The Dark Knight. That was released July 16 here in Australia. Holidays mostly lasted until a week or a few days until its release. Audiences were off holidays and it’s still a huge hit. The same can happen with Harry Potter. People are still going to see it, but if it’s released earlier the WB are cutting down on piracy and not creating an image of the “big bad film studio”.

I strongly believe a petition can work. It worked with Order and it can work with Half-Blood Prince. And even if it doesn’t, what harm is there in signing it? It takes a minute out of your day. I’d rather try and fail then not try at all.