Sentences with phrase «potter franchise director»

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And over the course of now eight films, the Potter franchise has tried on four directors and two writers, finding success and failure through numerous evolutions.

Director David Yates, who is new to the Potter franchise, moves the story along briskly, at the expense of texture and nuance.

The best - selling novel by J.K. Rowling (titled Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone in England, as was this film adaptation) becomes this hotly anticipated fantasy adventure from Chris Columbus, the winner of a high - stakes search for a director to bring the first in a hoped - for franchise of Potter films to the screen by Warner Bros..

Director David Yates clearly has his sights set on franchise country again — since rounding off the POTTER cinematic saga he ruffled the BBC's feathers by putting a new Doctor Who film in development, with TARZAN perhaps forming another opening gambit until that can be finalized.

«Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix» (2007) Box Office Take: $ 940m 21st Century Box Office Ranking: 24 Director David Yates «first time wielding the wand for the «Harry Potter» franchise, and it felt like a lot of things clicked into place.

The only time the «Harry Potter» franchise stooped to splitting a book into two (and the book was itself not the longest of the series), while all other credentials are present and correct — David Yates is in his stride as the franchise's most reliable director; the actors are the best they'll be; the visuals are as dramatic as the themes — the installment is let down by ending in mid-air and having a whole inert section where the three kids play house in a forest.

David Yates, director of two of the worst films in the Harry Potter film franchise — and the director of the first Fantastic Beasts — made this comment about the backlash that came from Depp being cast as Grindelwald:

By Hanako M. Ricks HollywoodNews.com: Not too long after famed director Martin Scorsese stated he'd be interested in working with Harry Potter actor Rupert Grint, comes word that his latest film, Hugo Cabret, has some well - known actors who also have ties to the wizarding franchise.

David Yates (born 30 November 1963) is an English director of film and television, best known for directing the final four films in the Harry Potter franchise.

David Yates, director of (1/2) the Harry Potter franchise thought so.

Late last year, we were astounded when Harry Potter director Yates revealed he was working on a Doctor Who movie saying it would need a «radical transformation» to bring the franchise to the big screen.

Filmmaker Francis Lawrence (I Am Legend, Constantine), who took over the reins of the franchise from director Gary Ross, uses the same approach Alfonso Cuarón did when he elevated the Harry Potter series with The Prisoner of Azkaban.

Director David Yates (who took over the Harry Potter franchise after the fourth movie and steered it to completion) certainly knows a thing or two about how to make the most of a hero he meets in media res, but his Tarzan is a monumental bore.

First, Fantastic Beasts franchise director and Harry Potter veteran David Yates stood by the controversial casting of Johnny Depp.

Today, Potter fan - site The Leaky Cauldron confirms — via long - time franchise director David...

What we are excited about: Harry Potter is one of the most successful movie franchises of all time, so it's no surprise that Warner Bros. would trust veteran Harry Potter director David Yates with another one of their summer tentpoles.

David Yates, who has spent the last few years toiling away on the «Harry Potter «franchise is being mentioned as a possible director with the film to be his his post «Deathly Hallows «project.