{"id":832563,"date":"2026-09-01T02:44:12","date_gmt":"2026-09-01T02:44:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/832563\/"},"modified":"2026-09-01T02:44:12","modified_gmt":"2026-09-01T02:44:12","slug":"practical-magic-2-heads-for-big-opening","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/832563\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Practical Magic 2&#8221; Heads For Big Opening"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>            <a href=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/practical-magic-2-heads-for-big-opening.jpg\" data-caption=\"Warner Bros. Pictures\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1200\" height=\"800\" class=\"entry-thumb td-modal-image\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/practical-magic-2-heads-for-big-opening.jpg\"   alt=\"\" title=\"practical-magic-2-heads-for-big-opening\"\/><\/a>Warner Bros. Pictures<\/p>\n<p>The wave of late 1990s\/early 2000s revivals continues with the \u201cPractical Magic\u201d sequel set to pull in strong numbers when it launches next Friday.<\/p>\n<p>Tracking figures for the title suggest the film is on course to debut in the $40-50 million range in its opening domestic weekend \u2013 that\u2019s a far bigger number than the $13.1 million the first film debuted to in 1998, even taking into account inflation.<\/p>\n<p>According to <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/EmpireCityBO\/status\/2093809877084717508\" rel=\"nofollow\">Empire City Box-Office<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/boxofficetheory.com\/box-office-tracking-forecasts-practical-magic-resident-evil-avengers-endgame-encore-labor-day\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Box-Office Theory<\/a>, presales for the film are strong and could turn out to be a minor hit for Warner Bros. Pictures with little in the way of competition in September other than Zach Cregger\u2019s \u201cResident Evil\u201d the following week.<\/p>\n<p>Sandra Bullock and Nicole Kidman reprise their roles as witch sisters Sally and Gillian Owens, who in the original movie fight a family curse that dispatches the men with whom they fall in love.<\/p>\n<p>Joining them in this outing is Joey King as a daughter of Bullock\u2019s character who discovers the dark family secrets and her own dark powers, plunging the family into a crisis.<\/p>\n<p>Also onboard are Maisie Williams, Xolo Maridue\u00f1a and Lee Pace along with returnees Stockard Channing and Dianne Wiest.<\/p>\n<p>Susanne Bier (\u201cBird Box,\u201d \u201cThe Perfect Couple\u201d) directs the feature from a script by Akiva Goldsman and Georgia Pritchett.<\/p>\n<p>Previous article<a href=\"https:\/\/www.darkhorizons.com\/amy-madigan-set-for-the-comebacker\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Amy Madigan Set For \u201cThe Comebacker\u201d<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Warner Bros. Pictures The wave of late 1990s\/early 2000s revivals continues with the \u201cPractical Magic\u201d sequel set to&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":832564,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[52],"tags":[137872,88,206],"class_list":["post-832563","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-movies","tag-bigslider","tag-entertainment","tag-movies"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/832563","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=832563"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/832563\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/832564"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=832563"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=832563"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=832563"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}