With under 100 days till the films release - on August 14, 2008, Warner Brothers in a press release announced that they decided to switch the release date to next year. The release date has been rescheduled from November 21, 2008, to July 17th, 2009.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080814/ap_on_...lm_harry_potter

This really sucks. November is long enough, and they have to push it back.