Final Potter Film 'Deathly Hallows: Part II' To Be Released July 2011

The Hollywood Reporter reveals today that the eighth and final movie in the "Harry Potter" series, 'Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows' is to be released on July 15th, 2011. David Yates directs.

The studio is splitting Deathly Hallows, the seventh and final book in the series about the young wizard, into two movies because of its length. Part I is to set debut on November 19th, 2010, while the final movie comes out eight months later in July 2010.

The five movies based on the books by J.K. Rowling have already been made in huge cimena hits with stars Daniel Radcliffe, Emma Watson and Rupert Grint. The sixth, Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince, is due in theatres on July 17th, 2009 after its release was postponed from November.

Daniel Radcliffe is best known for playing the title role in all five of the "Harry Potter" films to date, and will star again in the remaining titles. He recently made his Broadway debut in EQUUS. EQUUS also starred Richard Griffiths, with whom Daniel appeared in the highly successful production of the play in London's West End and in the Harry Potter films as well.

EQUUS is Peter Shaffer's play about a boy with a secret and the surprising things that happen when a beautiful young girl brings that secret to light. After the mild-mannered stable boy Alan Strang (played by Daniel Radcliffe) has committed a serious crime, the court-appointed psychiatrist Martin Dysart (Richard Griffiths) is charged with revealing the mysteries behind the boy's behavior while confronting his own self-doubt in his marriage, his profession and his life.