Bette Midler urges Disney to hurry with “Hocus Pocus 3” script: 'Get us while we're still breathing' (2024)

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Bette Midler (Winifred Sanderson)

Bette Midler was already a well-established actress and singer by the time she first portrayed Winifred Sanderson in 1993's Hocus Pocus at the age of 46. Her career had been flourishing since the 1970s, with notable highlights including the film The Rose and her concert performances.

In 2015, it was reported that Katz maintains acquaintance with his former fellow actors from Hocus Pocus. As of February 2022, Katz operated a cannabis company.

Or maybe you'll settle for adding Winifred Sanderson's “I Put a Spell on You,” to your Halloween playlist after you watch both movies for the umpteenth time. Either way, take advantage of another glorious morning to brush up on the most iconic sayings from your favorite Halloween film.

Quotes. Sarah : [singing in the sky] Come little children, I'll take thee away / Into a land of enchantment / Come little children, the times come to play / Here in my garden of magic.

The choice of one of the songs fell flat (especially with kids, the target audience, who found it cringy, and with returning fans who noticed the rehashing of some musical elements). Overall, the main 2 problems were that the Sanderson sisters no longer felt like a threat and that the story was boring and incomplete.

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Like the original, the witchy sequel is family-friendly overall but does have magical violence, name-calling, and gross-out scenes, mostly involving a decapitated zombie.

Once again, candles do get lit and witches do come back to life. That's about where the comparisons end. Instead of being gay in a literal sense, Hocus Pocus 2 focuses on the strength and power of girls' relationships to each other, friendship, and sisterhood (we shall call this gay, in the Baby-sitter's Club sense).

In an interview with The New York Times in June 2023, President of Walt Disney Studios Motion Picture Production Sean Bailey confirmed that Hocus Pocus 3 was happening. Both Fletcher and D'Angelo were said to return for the third installment as director and writer, respectively.

Were the Sanderson Sisters real? ›

CNN reported that the Sanderson sisters are fictional characters. There were not three sisters named Winifred, Sarah and Mary who were executed for practicing witchcraft in Salem, Massachusetts. However, even though they might be fictional, CNN said that there were really three sisters who were accused of witchcraft.

Billy greatly despises Winifred, but he did have a relationship with her when he was alive because they shared one kiss. He put up with it until he is fed up with her obsession and fell in love with her youngest sister Sarah.

In a 2014 interview with Variety, Leonardo DiCaprio said he was offered "more money than I ever dreamed of" to play "Hocus Pocus" leading man Max Dennison. But DiCaprio turned down the part to hold out for a role in "What's Eating Gilbert Grape" (1993) — a film he hadn't auditioned for yet.

Hocus Pocus director Kenny Ortega tells EW that his casting agents sent the future Titanic and Killers of the Flower Moon superstar actor in to read for the role of Max — which eventually went to Omri Katz — in the 1993 Disney classic, but that his team told him DiCaprio wouldn't be able to take the part.

'Hocus Pocus' stars open up about why they aren't in sequel: 'It just didn't work' The Sanderson sisters were brought back to life in “Hocus Pocus 2,” but the children's franchise couldn't strike the right alchemy for some of its original cast members.

"Come little children, I'll take thee away, into a land of enchantment. Come little children, the time's come to play, here in my garden of magic." "You'd think they'd never seen a girl and a cat on a broom before." “I think that all women are witches, in the sense that a witch is a magical being.”

Hocus-pocus is an illusion or a meaningless distraction that tricks you in some way. Some people believe in astrology, while others think horoscopes are nothing but hocus-pocus.

My brother's a virgin: he lit the black flame candle. The witches are back from the dead and they're after us. We need help.