The most recent installment of the Harry Potter series from director Alfonso Cuarón and screenwriter Steve Kloves, based on J.K. Rowling's award-winning novels, takes audiences on another adventure with more mystery and magic than ever before.

The $730.1 million worldwide ($242 million domestic) box office smash features the returning Harry Potter cast of Daniel Radcliffe as Harry Potter, Emma Watson as Hermione Granger, and Rupert Grint as Ron Weasley, joined by Hogwarts professors including Robbie Coltrane (Rubeus Hagrid), Alan Rickman (Professor Severus Snape), Maggie Smith (Professor Minerva McGonagall), Michael Gambon (Albus Dumbledore), David Thewlis (Professor Lupin) and Gary Oldman as Sirius Black

Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban enchanted critics across the nation, garnering high praise for Alfonso Cuarón’s innovative direction and for capturing the world that is Harry Potter. The Los Angeles Times (Kenneth Turan) stated "Azkaban capture[s] the enormously pleasing essence of the Potter books" and Entertainment Weekly called the film "genuinely fun."

DVD ELEMENTS

From never-before-seen footage, classroom tours and challenges, fans will become well acquainted with secrets of the wizard world.

The two-disc edition DVD will include these spellbinding special features:

• A selection of mystifying exclusive never-before-seen footage.
• Creating the Vision a revealing interview with J.K. Rowling and the filmmakers.
• Three great interactive challenges! Test your memory with "Magic You May Have Missed", help Crookshanks "Catch Scabbers", and go on an unexpected quest with Sir Cadogan.
• Self-guided iPIX tours into Honeydukes and Professor Lupin's Defense Against the Dark Arts classroom.
• Raucous interviews with the cast lead by Johnny Vaughan and the Shrunken Head.
• Meet the animal trainers from the movie in Care of Magical Creatures.
• Choir Practice sing-along with the Hogwarts choir.
• Hogwarts Portrait Gallery - get a closer look at the various portraits lining the walls of Hogwarts castle.
• Conjuring a Scene an in-depth look at the making of key scenes from the film.
• Theatrical trailers of all three Harry Potter films.
• Electronic Arts game preview.

DVD-ROM PC capable features include:

• Wizard Trading Cards.
• Hogwarts timeline.

BASICS

Wide-Screen and Full Frame Versions Available

DVD: $29.95 VHS: $22.95

Street Date: November 23, 2004

Languages: English, Spanish

Subtitles: English, French and Spanish

Running time: 142 mins

Rating: PG (frightening moments, creature violence and mild language)