Harry Potter And The Half-Blood Prince: first look documentary

According to our calendar, the exhaustive wait for Harry Potter fans for the next instalment of the cinematic franchise is now less than ten days from being over. The new film, Harry Potter And The Half-Blood Prince, finally arrives in cinemas from 15th July, and that means the folks in the Warner Bros marketing department can finally put their feet up for a bit.

The last minute decision to move the film back eight months has, it's fair to say, tested them quite a lot, given that all the promotional work was already in place for a release in November of 2008. Since then, Warner Bros has had to stretch a further eight months of publicity out of the material it has for the project. And that means that arguably it's been about the most exposed blockbuster film in terms of how much we've seen in recent memory. Between the numerous trailers, the featurettes, the promo clips and such like, it certainly feels thus far that we've seen more than we should.

Still, to neatly finish the job off, HBO has released its First Look documentary (although the name doesn't really seem appropriate where this project is concerned!), which you can find below. It goes behind the scenes of the film, and shows some more fresh material while it's at it.

If all goes to plan, our review of the film will be live from Wednesday…