The Dumb Are Mostly Intrigued By The Drum

I've never been too hyped up about the Potter franchise but that's not to say I don't enjoy the films. When the announcement was made that the next installment was being pushed back until next summer, I was cool with it but it left me wondering how far along the film truly was. Well here's your answer: it was screened this past Saturday in Chicago. An Aintitcoolnews reader has written up a review of the film but be warned: it contains some big spoilers. If you don't care, surge ahead and click on that link to check it out!

Sorry, Potter fans. Slash Film is reporting that the studio wishes to capitalize on the summer audiences ($$$) and have decided to push the film from it's original Nov. 21st, 2008 release date back to July 17th, 2009. Yup, so that means almost a year to the date The Dark Knight was released is when you'll see the next Potter film. Another reason given was due to the writer's strike, an open gap was available and they seem poised on taking advantage of it. In the mean time, just keep watching that pretty cool trailer they released not too long ago. So what do you guys think? Can this only make the film a better end product?

Even after the head fake we all got when we saw the pathetic excuse for a teaser in front of The Dark Knight in IMAX, I'm still excited to see this. And it looks pretty good. Check it out over at Moviefone here.

Well, the end of Comic Con this past week has arrived and although we posted much of the major stuff coming out of there (some of it...actually, most of the vids were eventually pulled) there were some other morsels that slipped by us. So what does that mean? Time for an ÜberPost!

• Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince will see it's first trailer drop tonight over at AOL at 9pm EST. We will post it here as soon as it's up but in the mean time, head on over to USA Today here to see some exclusive pictures from the film, including a young Voldemort.

•At Comic Con this weekend promoting Drag Me To Hell, director Sam Raimi revealed that he's is most definitely working with Bruce Campbell on another Evil Dead movie. AWESOMMEEE! Check out the details over here at SlashFilm.

•More Comic Con news, Robert Rodriguez confirmed that Machete, one of his "trailers" from Grindhouse starring the great Danny Trejo, will indeed be expanded upon and turned into a proper film...TRILOGY! Uh... yes, please! The Movie Blog blesses us with the news.