When Warner Bros. pushed back the date of its Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince movie to July 17, 2009, it posed a problem for Entertainment Weekly, as well as Nancy Valentino, VP of the entertainment communications group for Time Inc. EW had already gone to press with a fall movie preview issue that included Harry Potter actor Daniel Radcliffe on the cover.
“You know what?” Valentino says the day after the news broke. “We're a weekly. News [like this] happens. ...