Mike Newell, director of Four Weddings and a Funeral, may direct Harry Potter 4. (“And we like the idea of a Harry Potter film opening with repeated use of four-letter expletives.”)
I haven’t been keeping track of things, it seems—the article mentions that Prisoner of Azkaban has already been filmed. Did they not get along with Alfonso Cuaron? He has the keeping of the best book in the series to date; I hope he hasn’t screwed it up.