Do you imagine in Magic? The Owens sisters are again in bewitching motion in Sensible Magic 2, the forthcoming sequel to the 1998 romantic fantasy movie Sensible Magic, and Nicole Kidman and Sandra Bullock are again on set collectively.
Kidman celebrated the beginning of filming in an Instagram video she posted on Friday, July 18. Within the clip, she hugs Bullock and presses her cheek to her costar’s.
“The witches are again. Owens sisters’ first day on set!” Kidman wrote within the video’s caption, including a sparkles emoji and the hashtag #PracticalMagic.
Within the unique Sensible Magic — directed by Griffin Dunne and based mostly on a 1995 novel by Alice Hoffman — Kidman and Bullock performed Gillian “Gilly” Owens and Sally Owens, two witch sisters coping with a curse upon the Owens household’s love lives and a reappearance (or two) of Gilly’s abusive boyfriend.
A mixture of romantic comedy, supernatural fantasy, and darkish relationship drama, Sensible Magicdidn’t go away critics spellbound upon its launch. The film has a 26 % Tomatometer score on Rotten Tomatoes, with the positioning’s critics consensus asserting the movie’s “jarring tonal shifts sink what little potential its offbeat story might have.”
Sensible Magic additionally didn’t wow moviegoers, incomes simply $68 million worldwide in opposition to a manufacturing funds of $60 million, in line with The Numbers. But the movie has turn out to be a cult basic within the intervening years, with The Atlantic’s David Sims calling it “[a] sort of costly mainstream-studio experiment that’s too bizarre to dismiss — a piece that wove darkish themes about gender and energy into an ostensible crowd-pleasing comedy” in a 2018 reassessment.
By June 2024, Kidman and Bullock have been in talks for a sequel, and this Might, Warner Bros. slated Sensible Magic for a theatrical launch on September 18, 2026. Susanne Bier — who directed Bullock in Hen Field and Kidman in The Undoing and The Good Couple — is helming the sequel. Akiva Goldsman (A Stunning Thoughts) and Georgia Pritchett (Succession) wrote the screenplay, which is reportedly based mostly on one other ebook in Hoffman’s Sensible Magic sequence, Selection studies.
Dianne Wiest and Stockard Channing will as soon as once more play Aunt Jet and Aunt Franny, respectively. And so they’ll be joined by new forged members embrace Lee Tempo (Basis), Joey King (The Act), Maisie Williams (Recreation of Thrones), Xolo Maridueña (Blue Beetle) and Solly McLeod (Tom Jones).
Sensible Magic 2, In Theaters, September 18, 2026