"Hocus Pocus" Cast Puts A Spell connected Us With BTS Secrets
29 years later, it's inactive conscionable a clump of Hocus Pocus on Halloween.
It's hard to judge the iconic Disney movie starring Bette Midler, Sarah Jessica Parker and Kathy Najimy as the 3 witchy, witty and wicked Sanderson sisters who instrumentality from the dormant acknowledgment to a virgin lighting the Black Flame candle came retired successful 1993. In the decades since its release, Hocus Pocus—directed by High School Musical's Kenny Ortega—has go a staple each and each October. (Just look astatine Freeform's 31 Days of Halloween programming block to spot however often they tally the movie.)
And successful grant of the film's highly anticipated sequel—out Sept. 30 connected Disney+—we're moving amok, amok, amok by spilling each of the behind-the-scenes treats we learned astir the making of Hocus Pocus straight from Ortega and immoderate of the film's stars, including Omri Katz, Thora Birch, Vinessa Shaw and Doug Jones. Don't worry, feline decidedly doesn't person our lingua erstwhile it comes to spilling these secrets.
To assistance you walk the clip until the Sandersons enactment a spell connected america again, cheque retired these amusive facts astir Hocus Pocus:
Hocus Pocus 2 is disposable to watercourse connected Disney+ Sept. 30.
—additional reporting by Kate Rosen
(Originally published connected Sunday, Oct. 18, 2020 astatine 12:00 a.m. PT)
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