Nicole Kidman and Sandra Bullock have stepped back into the shoes of the Owens sisters, and Warner Bros. just gave fans their first real look at what’s coming. The studio dropped the teaser trailer for “Practical Magic 2” this week, following its preview screening for theater owners at CinemaCon in Las Vegas. The sequel is scheduled to hit theaters on September 11.
That release date lands nearly three decades after the original “Practical Magic” arrived in 1998. The first film, a mix of romance, dark comedy, and witchy folklore, became a cult favorite over the years despite mixed reviews at the time. A generation of viewers grew up with it on repeat, which helps explain why a follow-up has been quietly building momentum for so long.
Susanne Bier sits in the director’s chair. The Danish filmmaker, known for “Bird Box” and the Emmy-winning miniseries “The Night Manager,” takes over the franchise with a story that digs back into the Owens family’s tangled history. According to the studio’s official description, the sequel “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.”
The plot picks up years later. Bullock’s Sally Owens is now a mother to grown daughters, each of them beginning to find their own way. Kidman’s Gilly has settled into a quieter rhythm, sharing her home with a black cat. That calm doesn’t last. A stranger played by Lee Pace turns up and pulls both sisters out of their New England life on an urgent errand, setting the rest of the story in motion.
Stockard Channing and Dianne Wiest are returning too, reprising their roles as aunts Frances and Jet, the eccentric pair who raised Sally and Gilly in the original. Their presence is a clear nod to longtime fans. The new ensemble rounds out with Joey King, Maisie Williams, Xolo Maridueña, and Solly McLeod, a lineup that spans teen drama, prestige TV, and blockbuster franchise work.
The screenplay comes from Akiva Goldsman and Georgia Pritchett. It draws from Alice Hoffman’s 2021 novel “The Book of Magic,” the fourth installment in her long-running “Practical Magic” book series. Hoffman has spent years building out the Owens family mythology on the page, and “The Book of Magic” wraps up several generational threads that the first movie only gestured toward.
Bullock and Kidman are producing alongside Denise DiNovi, who also produced the original film. Andrew Kosove, Broderick Johnson, Donald Sabourin, and Hoffman herself are on board as executive producers.
Twenty-eight years. That’s how long fans have waited. The teaser is live now, and “Practical Magic 2” opens in theaters on September 11.
