Monday, August 18, 2008

Why Warner Bros delayed release of 'Half-Blood'

Now if you were the producer of children movies and your protagonist goes around signing plays, which isn't such a bad thing, but also goes around posing in the buff on horses, which is definitely not good news. Just what would you do?
Fox News has presented the theory that Warner Bros. decided to push back the release of Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince because of Daniel Radcliffe's flesh-flashing in the Broadway production of Equus. Had they stuck to the film's original release date (November 21), Radcliffe would have been bang in the middle of the play. And that's not the image Warner Bros. wants associated with bespectacled Harry.
Warner Bros definitely do not want to start answering questions about blinding horses and having sex with them vs. flying around and making potions.
Hours after the announcement was made about the film's delay, Potter fans were incensed and took to the internet to vent their rage.

We have a shot of Radcliffe riding a horse bareback in the latest issue of Vogue magazine. The images were taken by Annie Leibovitz.

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