New Harry Potter film due out next summer

The third Harry Potter film, Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban, is due out next summer, Warner Bros. Pictures announced today.

Academy Award nominee Alfonso Cuaron (Y Tu Mama Tambien) takes the helm as director with David Heyman, Chris Columbus and Mark Radcliffe as producers.

In Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban, Harry Potter and his friends Ron and Hermione return as teenagers to Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry for their third year of study, where they delve into the mystery surrounding an escaped prisoner who poses a dangerous threat to the young wizard.

The story reunites Daniel Radcliffe, Rupert Grint and Emma Watson in this third film as Harry, Ron and Hermione.

The cast is joined by Gary Oldman, who plays the ominous figure of Sirius Black, Michael Gambon who takes on the role of Hogwart’s revered Headmaster Albus Dumbledore, Julie Christie who plays the role of the big-hearted Three Broomsticks pub barmaid Madam Rosmerta and Emma Thompson as the eccentric Professor of Divination, Sibyll Trelawney.