PoA's awards campaign / Yates = OotP director?

[Petra]

In case you haven't heard yet - the nominations 
for the Golden Globes has been announced and 
PoA has not received any.  Even though PoA is 
not a perfect film and awards do not have as 
great an impact on the financially already 
successful, 'tis too bad.  Perhaps they'll have 
better luck with the rest of the awards this 
season, in particular the Oscars.

Variety had this to say about PoA, in terms of 
Golden Globes nominations:

"...none of the films nominated for best 
picture is yet a blockbuster. In fact, many of 
the film's biggest grosser's were not cited, a 
list that ranges from Newmarket's 'The Passion 
of the Christ' to Sony's 'Spider-Man 2' to 
Warner Bros.' 'Harry Potter and the Prisoner 
of Azkaban.'"

(source: http://www.variety.com/story.asp?l=story&a=VR1117914901&c=1778)

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Though we still don't have an official 
announcement that confirms Yates, here's an 
interesting mention in Variety's coverage of 
WB's premiere of "Ocean's Twelve" last week 
posted Dec. 12: 

"Among the guests were Sharon Stone, Prince, 
Radha Mitchell and 'Harry Potter' producer 
David Heyman and the franchise's new 
installment's helmer David Yates."

(source: http://www.variety.com/story.asp?l=story&a=VR1117914874&c=1777)

Then there's this mention in Variety's article 
about Richard Curtis producing the Comic Relief 
(which unless I'm much mistaken is the same 
organization that benefited from the sales of 
FB&WtFT and QTtA, incidentally) telethon, also 
posted Dec. 12.  See note below for more on the 
not-HP aspects.

"...[Curtis] has written a BBC TV movie, 'The 
Girl in the Cafe,' which David Yates ('State 
of Play') will direct before he moves onto the 
fifth 'Harry Potter.'"

(source: http://www.variety.com/story.asp?l=story&a=VR1117914820&c=19)

Y'know, considering that Variety is so widely 
read in the industry that such repetition of 
misinformation about such a valuable franchise 
could not go unnoticed, it sounds like Yates 
is already set.  In order to maximize the 
Oscar mileage to be had from this announcement, 
WB may be refraining from officially announcing 
the deal until around Dec. 27 when the 
nomination ballots for the Oscars are mailed.  
I wonder what other announcements may be 
synchronized to the rest of the academy awards' 
schedule (Jan. 15 nominations polls close, 
Feb. 2 final ballots mailed, Feb. 22 final 
polls close).

Petra, hoping it's not red herrings she smells
a
n  :)

NOTE: According to this article, Curtis and 
Comic Relief are part of the campaign to end 
global poverty known as "MakePovertyHistory" 
in Britain, "The One Campaign" in America, 
"No Excuses" in Italy and various other 
monikers internationally.  Raising this issue 
on the world stage is in preparation for the 
next G8 summit.

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