{"id":654662,"date":"2026-05-07T03:18:12","date_gmt":"2026-05-07T03:18:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/654662\/"},"modified":"2026-05-07T03:18:12","modified_gmt":"2026-05-07T03:18:12","slug":"hocus-pocus-3-next-jurassic-in-development","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/654662\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Hocus Pocus 3,&#8221; Next &#8220;Jurassic&#8221; In Development"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>            <a href=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/hocus-pocus-3-next-jurassic-in-development.jpg\" data-caption=\"Disney\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1200\" height=\"800\" class=\"entry-thumb td-modal-image\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/hocus-pocus-3-next-jurassic-in-development.jpg\"   alt=\"\" title=\"hocus-pocus-3-next-jurassic-in-development\"\/><\/a>Disney<\/p>\n<p>A third \u201cHocus Pocus\u201d film is officially in early development at Disney and a follow-up to \u201cJurassic World Rebirth\u201d is in development at Universal Pictures, reports <a href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/2026\/05\/hocus-pocus-3-in-works-sanderson-witches-back-1236882927\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Deadline<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The trade indicates the trio of \u201cHocus Pocus\u201d stars \u2013 Bette Midler, Sarah Jessica Parker, and Kathy Najimy \u2013 will return to reprise their roles as the Sanderson sisters.<\/p>\n<p>Additionally, there are reportedly plans for a theatrical distribution component this time, in the wake of the success of 2022\u2019s straight-to-streaming \u201cHocus Pocus 2\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>Talk of a third film first began back in 2023, but seemed to stall over an executive change and salary negotiations; the latter now apparently has been worked out.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, the <a href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/2026\/05\/summer-box-office-preview-1236880797\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">trade confirms<\/a> that the \u2018Rebirth\u2019 sequel, which marks the eighth overall film in the franchise, is in development.<\/p>\n<p>No other details about the film have been announced, though it\u2019s likely the core acting trio of Scarlett Johansson, Jonathan Bailey, and Mahershala Ali will be back along with filmmaker Gareth Edwards.<\/p>\n<p>Previous article<a href=\"https:\/\/www.darkhorizons.com\/new-world-actress-sues-over-avatar-design\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">\u201cNew World\u201d Actress Sues Over \u201cAvatar\u201d Design<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Disney A third \u201cHocus Pocus\u201d film is officially in early development at Disney and a follow-up to \u201cJurassic&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":654663,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[64,63,142132,134,344],"class_list":["post-654662","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-movies","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-bigslider","tag-entertainment","tag-movies"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/654662","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=654662"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/654662\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/654663"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=654662"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=654662"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=654662"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}