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26 Oct

Hocus Pocus 2 Just Took a Big Step Forward

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Halloween is saved! Well not this Halloween, obviously—nothing can save 2020. But next Halloween is shaping up to be a pretty good one. Bette Midler has just confirmed that Midler, Sarah Jessica Parker, and Kathy Najimy will all be returning for the Hocus Pocus sequel as the sister-witches Winnie, Sarah, and Mary. “They want to make a movie, they’ve asked us if we were interested and of course all of us said yes,” she told Fox 5 New York. “I’m game, I’m totally game.” Midler, Parker, and Najimy played the Sanderson Sisters in the original 1993 classic, three witches bent on…
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22 Oct

The Witches Review: More Wicked Than Your Typical Hocus Pocus

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Children love terrifying stories. This is an obvious truth to any parent who’s ever shared a ghost story with their child, or any former kid who remembers the telling. Yet in the age of studio tentpoles, dark amusements for kids have largely disappeared—banished to the ether alongside anything else deemed too edgy. As the years passed, children’s movies got a little safer, a little more predictable, and a little less mischievous. Robert Zemeckis’ The Witches wishes to wave a magic wand that walks this all back. Premiering today on HBO Max, the newest film from the director of Back to…
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05 Oct

Hocus Pocus Sequel: Bette Midler Comments on Her Possible Return

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When news of the Hocus Pocus sequel finally moving first broke on Collider in October 2019, it was unclear, at that point, how much of the original film’s cast would be returning. While sources said that writer and co-producer Jen D’Angelo had been “tasked with finding a way to bring back the original cast of Bette Midler as Winifred, Sarah Jessica Parker as Sarah, and Kathy Najimy as Mary,” there haven’t been many cast-related announcements since then. Until now. ET recently chatted with Midler about her new film, The Glorias, and the subject of the Hocus Pocus sequel came up. While Disney has yet to confirm…
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05 Mar

Hocus Pocus 2 Finds Director

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Double double toil and trouble. We already knew Disney was developing a sequel to the much-beloved classic Hocus Pocus, but now a director has been attached to the project, which is the next step in bringing the story to the big screen. The original 1993 film was directed by Kenny Ortega (he of High School Musical fame) from a script by Neil Cuthbert and Mick Garris. The sequel, according to The Hollywood Reporter, has Adam Shankman attached to direct. Shankman has previously directed films like Hairspray and A Walk to Remember. He is also attached to produce Disney’s Enchanted sequel,…
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