{"id":429709,"date":"2026-09-08T16:20:09","date_gmt":"2026-09-08T16:20:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/429709\/"},"modified":"2026-09-08T16:20:09","modified_gmt":"2026-09-08T16:20:09","slug":"sandra-bullock-surprises-crowd-at-a-special-screening-of-practical-magic-2-in-austin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/429709\/","title":{"rendered":"Sandra Bullock Surprises Crowd at a Special Screening of \u2018Practical Magic 2\u2019 in Austin"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Just like magic! On Sept. 5, Sandra Bullock bewitched the audience as she appeared during an advance screening of \u2018Practical Magic 2\u2019 at Austin\u2019s Alamo Drafthouse Mueller. Hidden from the crowd, the Oscar-winning actress began engaging with the host in the background on a microphone, announcing \u201cMy name is\u2026 Sandy\u201d before walking into the theater to a cheering crowd.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The Saturday night screening was emceed by Austin Monthly editor-in-chief Madeline Hollern, who chatted with Bullock before she answered audience questions about returning to the beloved role of Sally Owens, her favorite parts of the movie\u2019s iconic house, and what she loves most about Austin. Before leaving, the actress took a selfie with the crowd\u2014and toasted them with a midnight margarita, naturally.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The event was hosted by Warner Bros. Pictures and Fons PR.\u00a0Practical Magic 2\u00a0will be released to the public on Thursday, Sept. 10.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Just like magic! On Sept. 5, Sandra Bullock bewitched the audience as she appeared during an advance screening&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":429710,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[132,134,133],"class_list":["post-429709","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-austin","tag-austin","tag-austin-headlines","tag-austin-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/429709","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=429709"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/429709\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/429710"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=429709"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=429709"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=429709"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}