{"id":843891,"date":"2026-09-11T08:14:12","date_gmt":"2026-09-11T08:14:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/843891\/"},"modified":"2026-09-11T08:14:12","modified_gmt":"2026-09-11T08:14:12","slug":"box-office-practical-magic-2-makes-3-5m-in-previews-on-thursday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/843891\/","title":{"rendered":"Box Office: &#8216;Practical Magic 2&#8217; Makes $3.5M+ In Previews On Thursday"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tWarner Bros and Alcon\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/tag\/practical-magic-2\/\" id=\"auto-tag_practical-magic-2\" data-tag=\"practical-magic-2\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Practical Magic 2<\/a> starring Sandra Bullock and Nicole Kidman is off to a solid start in previews with an estimated $3.5 million to $4 million after showtimes that began Thursday at 2 p.m.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tThose figures are higher than the previews of Bullock\u2019s 2022 romantic adventure pic The Lost City ($2.5M, $31M 3-day opening) and the 2022 George Clooney-Julia Roberts romantic comedy Ticket to Paradise ($1.1M previews, $16.5M opening). The preview cash is also a notch above Warner Bros\/MRC\u2019s Wuthering Heights $3M Thursday, which turned into a $32.8M 3-day opening. Even if this $70M net production files an opening between $30M-$35M domestic, it\u2019s not cursed.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tPractical Magic 2 will have the power of PLFs this weekend, notably Dolby Cinema. Alcon financed 50% of the Bullock and Kidman reteam.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tCritics are harsh on the sequel at 36%, but they also tried to cast a bad spell on the original 1998 movie at 29% Rotten. That pic opened to No. 1 at $13.1M back on October 16-18, 1998 and finaled at $46.7M domestic, $94.4M worldwide with a B- CinemaScore (sometimes moviegoers in their CinemaScores can be harder on features based on novels). The international outlook for part 2 in 77 territories sans China is between $18M-$23M.<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"c-lazy-image__img lrv-u-background-color-grey-lightest lrv-u-width-100p lrv-u-display-block lrv-u-height-auto\" src=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/wp-content\/themes\/pmc-deadline-2019\/assets\/public\/lazyload-fallback.jpg\" data-lazy-src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/Hope_9fc57e.jpg\" alt=\"'Hope' review Cannes Film Festival\" data-lazy- data-lazy- height=\"576\" width=\"1024\" decoding=\"async\"\/><\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\u2018Hope\u2019 <\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tNeon<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tNeon\u2019s sci-fi alien invasion movie Hope written and directed by Na Hong-jin opened yesterday to $1.1M at 1,506 theaters. That included $305,000 in previews. The pic is expected to do the mid-single digits in its 5-day debut. The pic was a smash in its home country of South Korea, grossing over $36M and ranking No. 1 two weekends in a row. Michael Fassbender and Alicia Vikander play aliens in the pic.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tAlso opening this weekend is Disney\u2019s documentary Oasis: Don\u2019t Look Back in Anger and Angel Studios\u2019 Runner.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tTonight\u2019s previews are estimates from sources. We\u2019ll have the actual reported figure from Warner Bros on Friday morning.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Warner Bros and Alcon\u2019s Practical Magic 2 starring Sandra Bullock and Nicole Kidman is off to a solid&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":843892,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[88,5459],"class_list":["post-843891","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-entertainment","tag-entertainment","tag-practical-magic-2"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/843891","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=843891"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/843891\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/843892"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=843891"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=843891"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=843891"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}