Nicole Kidman & Sandra Bullock Reunite in ‘Practical Magic 2’ Set Footage: ‘The Witches Are Back’

In the original Practical Magic — directed by Griffin Dunne and based on a 1995 novel by Alice Hoffman — Kidman and Bullock played Gillian “Gilly” Owens and Sally Owens, two witch sisters dealing with a curse upon the Owens family’s love lives and a reappearance (or two) of Gilly’s abusive boyfriend.

A mix of romantic comedy, supernatural fantasy, and dark relationship drama, Practical Magic didn’t leave critics spellbound upon its release. The movie has a 26 percent Tomatometer rating on Rotten Tomatoes, with the site’s critics consensus asserting the film’s “jarring tonal shifts sink what little potential its offbeat story may have.”

Practical Magic also didn’t wow moviegoers, earning just $68 million worldwide against a production budget of $60 million, according to The Numbers. Yet the film has become a cult classic in the intervening years, with The Atlantic’s David Sims calling it “[a] kind of expensive mainstream-studio experiment that’s too weird to dismiss — a work that wove dark themes about gender and power into an ostensible crowd-pleasing comedy” in a 2018 reassessment.

By June 2024, Kidman and Bullock were in talks for a sequel, and in May, Warner Bros. slated Practical Magic for a theatrical release on September 18, 2026. Susanne Bier — who directed Bullock in Bird Box and Kidman in The Undoing and The Perfect Couple — is helming the sequel. Akiva Goldsman (A Beautiful Mind) and Georgia Pritchett (Succession) wrote the screenplay, which is reportedly based on another book in Hoffman’s Practical Magic series, Variety reports.

Dianne Wiest and Stockard Channing will once again play Aunt Jet and Aunt Franny, respectively. And they’ll be joined by new cast members, including Lee Pace (Foundation), Joey King (The Act), Maisie Williams (Game of Thrones), Xolo Maridueña (Blue Beetle) and Solly McLeod (Tom Jones).

Practical Magic 2, In Theaters, September 18, 2026