Harry Potter: Prisoner of Azkaban Film Info.

[manofsteel1303]

I just found this link....
http://romanticmovies.about.com/library/weekly/aaharrypotter3news.htm..

This is the first information I've found about the film. I don't know many of the new actors such as Gary Oldman who plays Sirius or Michael Gambon who is the new Dumbledore. I also found that the release date in June 4, 2004.

Thought you ought to know.

 

[manofsteel1303]

Just as a follow-up, I also found a more detailed article at this link....
http://www.comingsoon.net/news/harrypotter3news.php?id=832

And here is a picture of Michael Gambon as Dumbledore.....

 

[Jamdin]

Gary Oldman is a well-established actor with a wide range of acting skills. He is best known as the Count in "Bram Stoker's Dracula" (1992), the bizarre villian in "The Fifth Element" (1997) and Doctor Smith in "Lost In Space" (1998).

Michael Gambon, a fierce-looking Irishman, is one of Britain's most revered stage performers. He is known mostly to American fans in Tim Burton's "Sleepy Hollow" (1999) and to PBS' fans as the title role in "The Singing Detective."

 

[Lost and Damned 2]

Gary Oldman, (a fellow south londoner like me) has also played a great role in Leon....

as well as being in other films such as Air Force One....

and it's been said that he has never used the same accent in any of his films, he's great at them.

 

[Tarrasque Wrangler]

Maybe it's just because I'm not old enough to remember the Sex Pistols in person, but whenever I think of Sid Vicious, I think of Gary Oldman's awesome portrayal of him in Sid and Nancy. Worth watching just for the "My Way" musical number.

EDIT: Dang, I scooped these casting bits right here on these boards months ago. No one gave a rat's patootie at the time.

 

[Dinkeldog]

TW, yes we did. It mostly centered on no one knowing Gambon, rather than Gary Oldman, though.

 

[Enchantress2]

Gary Oldman is the bizarre villian in "The Fifth Element" (1997) "

Your kidding! THAT'S who Gary Oldman is! He's going to ruin my favorite character! I always pictured Sirius as more along the lines of Johnny Depp in Sleepy Hollow. In serious need of a sun tan but still kinda attractive. *sigh* oh well...

 

[Olive]

Your kidding! THAT'S who Gary Oldman is! He's going to ruin my favorite character! I always pictured Sirius as more along the lines of Johnny Depp in Sleepy Hollow. In serious need of a sun tan but still kinda attractive. *sigh* oh well...

That's but one of his roles. He is a very very good actor.

 

[Olive]

Maybe it's just because I'm not old enough to remember the Sex Pistols in person, but whenever I think of Sid Vicious, I think of Gary Oldman's awesome portrayal of him in Sid and Nancy. Worth watching just for the "My Way" musical number.

I never watched Sid and Nancy, but the My Way number was orignially done by Sid himself in the Pistol's movie The great rock'n'roll swindle. So you might be thinking of Sid himself!

 

[Tarrasque Wrangler]

I never watched Sid and Nancy, but the My Way number was orignially done by Sid himself in the Pistol's movie The great rock'n'roll swindle. So you might be thinking of Sid himself!

Huh. Never seen Great Rock'n'Roll Swindle, didn't know about that. I guess the scene in Sid and Nancy is a reproduction of it, but there wasn't anything about making a movie in it. It's just this random weird scene. How surreal was the original? In Sid and Nancy, Sid pulls out a gun and starts blowing away people in the audience. It's hysterical. I'll definitely have to pick up Swindle.

Michael Gambon is most recognized on this side of the pond as Baltus Von Tassel in Sleepy Hollow, William McCordle (the murder victim) in Gosford Park, and as LBJ in the excellent recent HBO film Path to War. He will also be in Open Range with Kevin Costner and Robert Duvall this year.