Mention the name of the new "Harry Potter" director and the near-universal response is, "Who?"
After creating a $3.5 billion franchise with a string of high-profile filmmakers—Chris Columbus, Alfonso Cuarón and Mike Newell—Warner Bros. hired David Yates to take the reins for "Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix," which will be released next summer.
Yates is unknown here, but he's been building an impressive résumé in his native Britain. His movie "Sex Traffic," about women forced into international prostitution, was widely praised.
In 2004 he won a British Directors' Guild award for the TV series "State of Play," a political thriller.
And his last film, HBO's "The Girl in the Café," is a romance set at the G8 economic summit (yes, really), and earned an Emmy this year.
Friday, January 5, 2007
Who's That Guy With Harry Potter? David Yates
I saw the "Girl in the Cafe" and it was actually pretty good.
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