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Radcliffe's 'naked horse play' blamed for 'Harry Potter' delay

2:21PM Tuesday August 19, 2008

Rumour has it 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.

Fox News has presented the theory that Warner execs decided to move the film's release from November to July 2009 due to Radcliffe being buck-naked in the play.

You see, had they stuck to the film's original release date (November 21), Radcliffe would have been slap-bang in the middle of the play.

And as Fox so eloquently puts it, "That's not the image Warner Bros. wants associated with bespectacled Harry, who remains chaste and virginal."

I see their point: The salacious play's bestiality theme, together with Potter's privates is a fry cry from the innocent, wizarding world of Hogwarts.

Then there's the LA Times' theory that the shift in the film's release date is all about mullah.

The newspaper's columnist Geoff Boucher describes Fox's theory as "flimsy".

We all know that Radcliffe has already starred in the play last year in London, amid mucho media attention. Warner Bros. didn't seem to mind the hysteria back then. So why would they kick up a stink now? The truth is out there...

The LA Times' editorial adds: "Warner Bros. executives believe that a dominant summer blockbuster is better than a dominant fall blockbuster, especially when their target "Potter" audience has so many young people who are far more likely to be repeat consumers for a film released during the summer school break."

Publicity shots for the saucy play have hit the streets of New York, and fans are lapping up the imagery of Radcliffe with a horse's head superimposed on his naked torso.

Then there's the shot (Safe For Work) of Radcliffe riding a horse bareback in the latest issue of Vogue magazine. The images were taken by Annie Leibovitz - the same snapper who shot Miley Cyrus for Vanity Fair earlier this year.

They make for very powerful imagery. There's nothing dirty or debauched about them - they're simply in context with what they're promoting. But if anything's gonna send the Warner Bros. execs reeling, it's probably the thought that the heavy publicity for Equus could potentially damage the next Potter film.

"For the movie to open on Nov. 21, Radcliffe would have to do publicity entailing answering questions about blinding horses and having sex with them vs. flying around and making potions," adds the Fox News article.

Warner Bros. told The Associated Press last week that the decision to delay the film's release was "made to take advantage of an open weekend in Hollywood's busy summer season," said Alan Horn, Warner Bros. president and chief operating officer.

"The picture is completely, absolutely, 100 per cent on schedule, on time. There were no delays," he added.

But that doesn't help the millions of disappointed Harry Potter fans who now have to wait eight months for the next installment in the saga.

There will be Half-Blood

Hours after the announcement was made about the film's delay, Potter fans were incensed and took to the internet to vent their rage.

Thirty five thousand disgruntled fans have so far signed a petition on Petitionspot.com, demanding that the film be returned to its original November 21 release.

Other fans have swamped Potter forums with thousands of angry comments, saying they plan to organise boycotts and protests.

While one incensed fan wrote in a letter to the LA Times: "This is ridiculous and I assure you that the millions of Harry Potter fans who have been looking forward to this release will not stand for it."

What do you think of the film's delayed release date? Are you disappointed? Submit a comment below.

Disenchanted or not, for now at least, you'll have to make do with the trailer that was unveiled a couple of weeks ago:

Madonna leaks...
...and out pops this song from way back in 2001.

The song's called Like An Angel Passing Through My Room, a cover of an old ABBA track, produced by William Orbit during the early production stages of her 2001 Music album.

He speaks
John Mayer is rumoured to have broken the news of his split from Jennifer Aniston while carting his sweaty carcass from a gym. That's classy.

He said: "There's no lying, there's no cheating, there's no nothing."

There's apparently no bad Joo Joo between the former lovers.

"Jennifer Aniston is the smartest, most sophisticated person I think I have ever met."

Rumour has it that he's letting on to the press that he was the one that instigated the split. In truth, it was actually Aniston who pulled the plug, according to her rep.

Meanwhile, Mayer has let on that is was "bad chemistry" that forced the two apart.

This is all post-breakup ego talking here.

Big-fat fake?
Some blokes from California claim they've found the legendary Bigfoot - his corpse at least.

The lucky hunters held a press conference at the tail end of last week to answer probing press questions about the 'discovery'.

Here's a picture of the creature they claim to have stumbled upon, deep, deep in the woods.

On a blog roll
Comedian Roseanne Bar is blogging again...prolifically. She just posted this gem on her slice of cyberspace devoted to random verbal diarrhea:

"jon voight is a frightened little girl in a pink ballet tutu, who acts like Obama just wandered in from the rain forest with a bone thru his nose and a communist pamphlet in his loincloth. The neocons who own jon voight and make him dance on the chabad telethons are the worst most elitist people on earth. glen beck and jon voight are their bitches... both of them are used tampons who must be flushed down the toilet immediately! jon voight your evil spawn angelina jolie and her vacuous hubby brad pitt make about forty million dollars a year in violent psychopathic movies and give away three of it to starving children trying to look as if they give a crap about humanity as they spit out more dunces that will consume more than their fair share and wreck the earth even more. (just sayin')."

Umkay then...

Quote of the day
"I don't believe in God, I believe in Al Pacino, and that's true. If I ever get a phone call saying, 'Would you like to work with Pacino?,' I would go crazy."

- Yummy Javier Bardem (aka Penelope Cruz's man on tap)

Man behaving badly
Catch this video of Sir Paul McCartney behaving badly.

A young lady with a video camera films the singer as he tottered about London town. Macca was not amused...

Watch a video of Macca's tirade here

I think the "fatty" remark was uncalled for. Macca's such an overgrown schoolboy.

Character building
Wise woman Anne Hathaway says she has come out a stronger person after breaking up with shady boyf Raffaello Follieri.

Hathaway ditched the dud root in June, just before he was collared by the law for alleged fraud.

The Devil Wears Prada star says: "The worst thing that happens to you can be the best thing for you,' she confesses to the Independent newspaper. "If you don't let it get the best of you."

But the starlet has no plans to go on the hunt for another man.

"I try not to date where I work, it makes life easier. Besides, the possibility has never really arisen.

"I don't say no to anybody because I'd hope that people wouldn't say no to me because I'm an actor - but they'd have to be a pretty extraordinary."

Fast gossip
Lovin' la linky loca...

Paris Hilton loves her puppies: SOMG

2008 MTV Video Music Awards - the nominees: HMG

Kate Hudson is frumpy: Yeeeah

Elvis and Priscilla Presley get the Barbie treatment: PB

Katie Price needs to calm down: TB

I love George Bush: Ayyyy

Celebrity boob jobs...the list grows: CR

One of the Jonas Brothers is gay: HB

Leonardo DiCaprio: hot or not? JJ

Britney swears she's a cleaning fanatic Gabby Babble

Who wore it best? CK

Jennifer Aniston has already moved on: Hollywood Rag

George Clooney is not texting Obama: Mollygood

Miley Cyrus has a new boy: ICYDK

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Comments

Jan Jop

United States of America

2:23AM Monday
15 September 2008

I was looking forward to a fall release. Now the trailer has been out for the film and I have to wait nearly a year for it? This is way too long of a delay. The film is ready to go and should be released as originally planned.

jo precht

United States of America

1:43PM Wednesday
20 August 2008

Read Warner Brothers Alan Horn original statement about the delay of The Half Blood Prince. He stated two reasons, one was the writers strike and the other was more revenue from a summer release. Now they are lying and trying to come up with additional reasons to cover their own B-t.

Even slandering Daniel Radcliff, how low will they sink! Harry Potter fans are well aware of Daniel Radcliffs other roles and we don't care. He will always be Harry Potter to us.

My family and friends will never boycott a Harry Potter film but we most certainly will boycott all other WB films if THBP is not released on Nov 2008. The have totally underestimated HP fans. We are fiercely loyal!

aastaraa

Auckland

10:43AM Wednesday
20 August 2008

Anyone else? John Mayer is just not interested in Women. It's like a neon sign for everyone but him? Name a successful long lasting relationship he hasn't gotten 'itchy feet' in. Someboby throw that boy a man. And quick.

Walaa Yousef

Egypt

1:31AM Wednesday
20 August 2008

I think it sucks. There's absolutely no excuse for delaying the movie. This'll create a 2 year gap between the last one and this one. They really should release it in November.

Tuan Nguyen Ngoc

Vietnam

9:36PM Tuesday
19 August 2008

sad sad asd asd sad



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