`Harry Potter' sweeps into theaters 2 days early

LOS ANGELES – Harry Potter and his academy chums are branch aback to chic a little eventually than expected.

"Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince" now is aperture Wednesday, July 15, two canicule beforehand than its previous absolution date, Warner Bros. arch of administration Dan Fellman said Tuesday.

That gives the cine a head-start on the weekend during what's abstraction up as a awful aggressive summer season for Hollywood, which has above authorization films aperture around every week.

"Every day the kids are out of academy in summer is aloof like an added Saturday," Fellman said.

Warner Bros. additionally opened the franchise's best contempo release, "Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix," on a Wednesday in July 2007.

It's the additional date change for the sixth chapter in the adventures of the boy wizard. "Half-Blood Prince" had been appointed for absolution aftermost abatement until the flat bumped it to this July to booty advantage of an accessible weekend in the active summer lineup.

The authorization stars Daniel Radcliffe as Harry, with Emma Watson and Rupert Grint as his best pals at Hogwarts Academy of Witchcraft and Wizardry.