The witches are back.
Nicole Kidman, Sandra Bullock, Dianne Wiest, and Stockard Channing are all back on board as one of the ’90s’ favorite movie covens for “Practical Magic 2,” the sequel to the beloved 1998 romantic fantasy that became a cult hit. The new film, out September 11, arrives nearly three decades since we last saw sisters Sally (Bullock) and Gilly (Kidman) Owens faced with a centuries-old family curse that kills any man who falls in love with them. Watch the first teaser trailer — set to Harry Nilsson’s almost classically infectious “Coconut” — below.
Per Warner Bros., the film, directed by Danish filmmaker Susanne Bier, “returns to a world steeped in moonlit mischief and powerful ancestral magic, as the Owens sisters must confront the dark curse that threatens to unravel their family once and for all in a must-see cinematic event of fun, magic, and mayhem.”
Griffin Dunne directed the original movie based on Alice Hoffman’s novel of the same name, with a script by Robin Swicord, Akiva Goldsman, and Adam Brooks. Goldsman and Georgia Pritchett this time adapt Hoffman’s follow-up novel, “The Book of Magic.” Joey King, Lee Pace, Maisie Williams, Xolo Maridueña, and Solly McLeod join the cast this time around. In the first film, Evan Rachel Wood played Sally’s eldest daughter, but the actress revealed in 2025 that, despite entreating the production to hire her, she was not asked to return for the sequel. Her role was instead recast.
“I offered my services, even if it was one scene or one line… I was told they are re-casting. I am sorry to disappoint the fans. It was not in my control or my choice. I would have happily rejoined my sisters,” she said in July.
“In a Better World” Oscar winner Bier, meanwhile, has already worked with both Nicole Kidman and Sandra Bullock. She directed Kidman as a therapist coming apart in the HBO psychological mystery miniseries “The Undoing” and worked with Bullock in Netflix’s early original movie, the apocalyptic “Bird Box.” Kidman also starred in the Bier-directed Netflix series “The Perfect Couple”; the Danish creator has not worked in her native language in more than a decade.
“Practical Magic 2” opens from Warner Bros. Pictures on Friday, September 11.
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