Twilight Moves To Take Harry Potter's Spot

By Josh Tyler: 2008-08-15 19:56:45

Twilight Moves To Take Harry Potter's Spot

The race to fill Harry Potter’s space is on. Less than 24 hours ago Warner Brothers announced it was moving Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince off it’s November 21, 2008 release date to a tentpole date in the summer of 2009. Now the race is on. Mere hours ago Disney announced it was shifting its animated movie Bolt to the 21st, and now Summit Entertainment is making a move.

The heavily anticipated, fan-frenzied movie Twilight has been bumped up from its December 12, 2008 release and will now open on November 21. Explaining the move Summit says, “When Warner Bros. decided to move HARRY POTTER AND THE HALF-BLOOD PRINCE to the summer of 2009, we saw a unique opportunity to slot in our film which has been gaining tremendous awareness and momentum over the past several months," said Rob Friedman, Co-Chairman and CEO of Summit Entertainment. "We by no means are trying to fill the shoes of the incredible POTTER franchise for 2008, rather we are just looking to bring the fans of Stephenie Meyer's incredible book series the film as soon possible from a programming perspective."

As of right now, or at least until some other opportunistic studio tries to shove its movie in there too, Twilight’s only competition on November 21st is Disney’s Bolt. Both films have pretty different audiences, so it’ll be an interesting matchup. In the weeks before and after though, the release schedule is packed with serious competition for the attention Twilight craves. Soul Men and Australia hit theaters on the previous Friday, while a few days afterward on Wednesday Transporter 3 and Four Christmases open.

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lix
November 18, 2008 at 05:52

you cannot compare harry potter to twilight!! totally a different story and plot..
twilight is a love-saga.. the story is simple but creative . it's not twisted or confusing or whatervr like the harry potter series.. i'm a harry potter fan and i find twilight also intresting.. i just can't compare twilight to harry potter..

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twilighthata
October 1, 2008 at 14:51

i am so mad....i personally hate the twilight Saga and i am sure i will hate the movie....i am a huge fan of harry potters and cant believe they would move it because it only raked i 7.5 billion dollars over the past 3 years

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Pholla
August 17, 2008 at 16:23

OME!!!! Twilight sooner is like Christmas in November! How will I contain my pure joy in the theater? I am so utterly happy that they moved Twilight up. I agree with most of the commentors about Potter not being a hard movie to wait for. Twilight, however, is very hard to wait for. I wish it was November already! I already have plans to watch it at least 3 times because I know the first time I'd be too busy hyperventilating & swooning to really take the movie in.

Go Twilight!!!! Yes!

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a\"Twilightmom\"
August 17, 2008 at 16:23

I am certain "Twilightmoms" the world over are as excited as I am by by the earlier release date of Twilight. Kudos and a huge thank you to Stephenie Meyer for sharing her "dream" with the world. Without the "Twilight Saga," there would never have been a "Twilight" movie.
I am certain the entire cast and crew have done the book (Twilight) justice. Another big thank you goes to Catherine Hardwicke who has assembled an extremely talented group of performers to bring the book to life. I cannot wait to see this movie!

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blearyeyedmesgirl
August 17, 2008 at 02:49

Snaps for Summit. A very smart move in my opinion. And the positive response is very heartening. And it also means that they (Catherine and the cast, etc...) can get started immediately after the release of Twilight on the pre-production of New Moon...
The three week jump to November also means we get to see Robert Pattinson in this role that much sooner! I'm very excited to see the final result of his characterization of this role........Plus, with Twilight moving up, it will give his other films, How To Be and Little Ashes a better jumping off point to get their films a wider release. )I'm actually a bit more excited to see the latter two films, than I am about Twilight.)
However all three of these films will not disappoint any of us who are floored by the talent this actor possesses. I'm looking forward to everything his career brings him. I know nothing short of greatness will come his way!

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