Pogo to air HBP TV Special and contest

As expected, Pogo is airing a TV Special for Harry Potter and the Half-blood Prince on 12th July 2009 [tomorrow]. There is also a new contest, by which fans can win Year 1-5 DVD set and some other prizes.

Stay tuned for more.

Half-Blood Prince to be released on July 16

Although US/UK release date was changed to 15th July some months ago, it is now confirmed that Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince is going to be released on 16th July [Thursday] next week, in both conventional and IMAX-3D cinemas.

It is worth to describe that HBP's IMAX release was postponed to 29th July in many other countries, Indian fans are lucky that they will be experience HBP in IMAX theatres before US/UK.

Half-Blood Prince in Hindi to be release on 17th July

Even though US/UK release dates for Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince have been moved to 15th July and IMAX release has been delayed for a week, it is now confirmed that Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince is going to release in India on July 17 in English and Hindi [dub].

There are possibilities that the movie will also release in Tamil, Telegu and other Indian languages. However, at this time, only Hindi release is confirmed.

It is noticeable that HBP will compete with Hindi movie called "Shortcut" in the box office.

BBFC rated HBP 12A, confirmed the runtime

Now it is officially announced - Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince is going to be 153 minutes and 19 seconds. And also, for those people who were whining about PG rating by MPAA, BBFC has rated the movie 12A, equivalent to PG-13 of MPAA and U/A of India.

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Rumor - HBP 153 minutes long?

I've got a news from some sources - Half-Blood Prince is going to be 153 minutes long [including end credits]. I still don't know whether it is true or not, but this announcement at AMC Theater seems pretty legit :-

While it is still a rumor, I consider it very true. Keep checking!

Videos Roundup

New Clip
WB has just release a new clip of lovestruck Ron, just after eating Romilda Vane's chocolates.
I know I'm very late in posting, but here's the clip only for you people -


New Featurette
Another featurette of Half-Blood Prince has also released, giving us several new glimpses of Astronomy Tower, Dumbledore and Harry and much more...

Speculative runtime for 'the Half-Blood Prince'

As you all know, David Heyman once quoted that HBP is going to have a runtime around 2 hours and 30 minutes. In my thoughts, I assume that Half-blood Prince will have a runtime of 142 minutes to 148 minutes.

My instinct says that the film is going to have a speculative runtime of 146 minutes - my guess for OOTP was a pretty much bulls-eye, if you remember (here's the post) I predicted 137 minutes and the actual runtime was 138 minutes.

Anyway, everything will be clear after some weeks, so keep checking.