Good news for all of us Muggles out there. Warner Brothers announced that Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince has been removed from its fall 2009 releases and rescheduled for July 19, 2009.
The studio stated that the summer release was due in part that summer is the “ideal window for a family tent pole release.”
Given the already widespread release of the movie trailer and the movie on the cover of Entertainment Weekly and Britain's Empire, the announce of an earlier release will calm all the Potter fan's angst.
Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince is the sixth film in the Harry Potter Series. The films are adapted from the seven novels of the same name by J. K. Rowling.
The final installment Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, is expected to be split into two parts with part one premiering in late 2010 and part two in 2011.