NYTimes Mike Newell article

[Amanda Pressnell]

The New York Times has an article on PoA director Mike Newell today. 

http://www.nytimes.com/2003/12/29/movies/29NEWE.html

Here's the HP-related part:

<< On the cusp of his Harry Potter adventure, Mr. Newell knows that the new film is wholly different from anything he has tried before. The budget is much bigger ("you're 
making a film that costs roughly the equivalent of the gross national product of Guatemala," he said, although he cannily did not say how much that is); the special effects 
are dazzling; and then there is the matter of the eagle on the set, which is a revelation in itself, the size of a small city.

"I was standing in my office a couple of months ago and an eagle flew past the window," Mr. Newell related. "I said to the producer, `I think an eagle has just flown past the 
window.' He said, `Yes, yes — that's probably from the zoo.' " 

"Which means that the enterprise is so vast that it's got its own zoo," Mr. Newell said. "If you want an animal, they'll just pop down and get you an animal. They have 
permanent owl residents, just in case you need one." >>


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