Warner Home Video has FINALLY announced the release date for the Half-Blood Prince DVD in the United States via a press release!

Warner Home Video has announced 1-disc DVD, 2-disc DVD, and 3-disc Blu-ray/DVD Combo releases of Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince for the 8th December.

You can also see the cover art, here in the gallery.

Half-Blood Prince has made it into the Top Ten of the All Time Worldwide Box Office Grossings!  It is at number 10 with $922.4 million Worldwide, $298.8 million Domestic, and $623.6 Overseas.

Also among the Top 10 is Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone (5) and Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix (7)!  Non-Potter films include The Dark Knight, Lord of the Rings Two Towers and Return of the King, Pirates of the Caribbean Dead Man’s Chest and At Worlds End, Titanic and Star Wars Episode 1!

All of the Potter films are within the top 24!

Home Media Magazine is reporting that WB is deliberately waiting to release the exact date that Half-Blood Prince is coming out.  Most of the rumors are saying early December or late November.

With the all-important fourth-quarter rapidly approaching, Warner Home Video has decided to release its tentpole titles later than usual, anticipating consumers will delay holiday purchases until the last minute, said a Time Warner senior executive.

“We are purposely putting our titles into the retail channel later in the fourth quarter to try and take advantage of what we believe will be the optimal foot traffic trends in retail,” Martin said.

Thanks TLC.

Motion Pictures Comics is in the middle of a series of cartoons on Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince.  They are quite amusing, so make sure to go to the site to check them out!

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More features from the Half-Blood Prince dvd have been released!

• J.K. Rowling…A Year in the Life docmentary (47 minutes and 30 seconds)
• Close up with the Cast of Harry Potter (28m 32s)
• What’s on your Mind? (6m 41s)
• One Minute Drills (6m 43s)

Thanks TLC!

The British Board of Film Classification has released the list of deleted scenes that will be on the Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince dvd!

00:00:26:17 – Harry and Hermione walk through Hogwarts Hall (SC. 85)
00:01:00:01 – Harry and Hermione discuss Maurader’s Map (SC. 95)
00:01:04:08 – Harry, Ron and Hermione discuss the Vanishing Cabinet (SC. 118-119)
00:00:38:07 – Harry and Dumbledore arrive at cave entrance (SC. 122)
00:00:19:07 – Harry and Dumbledore leave cave (SC. 124)
00:01:39:22 – Clouds gather over Hogwarts as Flitwick conducts choir (SC. 125-129)
00:00:40:08 – Harry joins Ron, Hermione and Ginny in the Common Room (SC. 140)
00:00:42:16 – Harry and Hermione discuss Ron at Astronomy Tower (SC. 142)

Thanks TLC!