We all heard about Harry Potter being delayed by the studio from the christmas season to the next summer
WHAT THE FUCK
There is absolutely no reason to do this, it was one of the most anticipated movies of the year They could release it on anyday of the year and it would still make gangbusters money
all they are doing is pissing off all of there loyal customers,
movie companies need to learn that unless there putting a movie against another blockbuster (which harry potter would overpower anything except maybe 007 but that would have come out 2-3 weeks before hand)
yeah but have you noticed that most movies are released on fridays rather than days in the middle of the week. And movies released in the summer go head to head with other big blockbusters, usually action movies. and if they can beat out other movies in the summer that were anticipated too, they get more money. it’s all about advertising, corporate and the media’s enphasis on the summer rather than christmas movies that are usually about ***** flicks, cartoons and romance.
Release dates DO have a big impact on profits for the major studios (as well as the indies, like the company I work with). They are dealing with tons of releases and not a lot of dates that they can release. They have to deal with other studios’ competing releases, holiday weekends, seasonal timing, awards-season/eligibility, festival season, etc.
It’s annoying to see a film like HP put off for so long, I agree, but for whatever reasons they had to delay it, they aren’t left with many future choices of a release date, hence the long wait.
Hope it helped a bit.
This question has come up here and other places quite a bit since they moved the date. The studio knows that any loyal fan is going to go see the movie. They could have moved it to Christmas of 2009 and it would still be highly anticipated by the fans, which are in great, great numbers.
For what ever the reason, they moved the film; however, they will probably make quite a bit of money anyway. Would they make more in the Christmas/Thanksgiving time versus the Summer time? Don’t know honestly. Even though Christmas time, especially Christmas day is perhaps one of the single highest grossing days for movies each year, the summer perhaps is the best time for movies to make money because more people have more time (more daylight, many kids and college students not in school which means more families spend more time together over a longer period of time). Summer is abviously more than a few days, infact it is several months and the Thanksgiving/Christmas season can’t compare to an entire summer.
Oh, please…. will people stop whining about this crap and get over it already?
The movie will come out when it comes out.
Release dates do have a big impact on a movie’s profitability, but there are other factors to consider, like what the competing studios are releasing the same weekend. In the case of Harry Potter, you’re right that the film would have been a huge hit no matter when it was released or what it was up against. However, you also have to take into consideration Warner Bros. entire slate. My theory is that Warners felt like they were going to have a weak summer next year, with only the fourth Terminator as a likely blockbuster. (The scenario becomes even more dire for the studio if you take out what would have been its spring blockbuster, Watchmen, which will now be far less profitable, assuming it even comes out at all, because of the Fox lawsuit against Warners over the film rights.) So moving Harry Potter makes next year’s numbers look bigger without doing much damage to this year’s numbers, since Warners’ Dark Knight did so spectacularly well that it can carry the whole 2008 slate.