Next 'Harry Potter' films due out in July 2007, November 2008

0 Comments | AFP, August, 2006

LOS ANGELES (AFP) — Spectacled boy wizard Harry Potter will return to US theatres in July 2007 and again in November 2008 with the newest installments of the hit movies which have earned more than 3.5 billion dollars worldwide, the Hollywood press reported.

Warner Bros. Studios will release the fifth Potter film in mid-summer next year, with "Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix", according to the Hollywood Reporter.

The studio will time the following movie, "Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince", for the lucrative Thanksgiving and Christmas holiday seasons at the end of 2008, the daily said.

Warner Bros. officials could not immediately be reached for comment.

Potter has become a virtual global phenomenon since he was introduced to the world...