Potter ‘Disapparating’ Forces Warner to Conjure Anew
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Warner Bros., releasing its seventh “Harry Potter” movie tonight, faces a task even a wizard would find daunting: replacing a series that will have rung up $7.5 billion in ticket sales by the time it ends next summer.
With J.K. Rowling’s story about the teen sorcerers ending with an eighth film in July, Time Warner Inc.’s film studio will rely on DC Comics superheroes like Christopher Nolan’s Batman, “Sherlock Holmes” sequels and two “Hobbit” prequels to the “The Lord of the Rings” trilogy to help fill the void.