Bolt takes Potter’s spot, as Harry visits Land of the Lost
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Warner Bros. has decided to bump the release of “Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince” from Nov. 21 to July 17, 2009. Shift puts it up against Universal’s bigscreen adaptation of “Land of the Lost,” starring Will Farrell.
In response, Disney has moved its animated feature “Bolt” up a week into the open November slot.
Move comes as Warner Bros. is in the midst of beefing up its summer schedule which up to now has been light on major tentpoles — a result attributed mostly to the writers strike which kept the studio from developing big-budget pics.
- from Variety