FRAT warning!
According to JB (and the FTL, FNL, FA, and Hibbett at the malls in my city), they have a strict rule for all Jordan releases to be 8 am releases. And they have stated that they are enforcing this for the BC IV's on black Friday. If any local stores are doing any other time for their release, yeah they can get away with it, but JB is taking it the same as catching an account selling them a week/month early. So some mom n pops and maybe individual, smaller town retail stores might let you get lucky and snag em at midnight or sooner, but for people asking on here that aren't directly asking their local store, the answer is YES. These will release at 8 a.m. and that is what you need to expect and plan for.
My local malls both open at midnight and most stores still don't know what their plan is here. But the FNL that gets the largest amount in my city told me the plan is to have a designated area roped off outside of the mall entrance, which is where we usually have to wait if you get to the mall early for other releases, that you can begin to line up for after the mall closes Wednesday night. The same manager that works for all big releases will go out to the line at midnight and hand out numbered tickets to people in the order they are in line. Then we can leave and come back before approx. 7:30 am with our ticket (which will be made so that it cannot be copied, with managers signature, a bar code number, and a few other safeguards) and will be let in from the line outside, one person with a ticket at a time, escorted the 50 yards from the door to the FNL.
I like this as I will be able to get a ticket by lining up extra early, and even have a shot at getting them on line at 7:00 am my time, or if I don't get a ticket for a pair at that FNL, I will have time to get in a line elsewhere. Nothing is perfect though and there is plenty of room for people to mess this up I'm sure. At least I can come up with a plan now though.