Prolonging the Franchise

Per the Good Professor comes the confirmation of a rumor: the final Harry Potter book is being split into two movies:

The final Harry Potter movie, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, will get the two-film treatment, simply named Part I and Part II. The two will be released six months apart; the first in November 2010 and then in May 2011. The franchise's producer David Heyman said J.K. Rowling's finale, published last year, is so packed with important details that "unlike every other book, you cannot remove elements of this book."

Now if only they'd done the same thing for books 4 and 5.