Twenty-eight years after the original, Sandra Bullock and Nicole Kidman are witches again. Here is the cast, the plot and the date it lands.
The sequel held its European premiere at the Odeon Luxe Leicester Square on August 26, with Bullock in Givenchy and Kidman in custom Chanel.
Warner Bros. moved the film up a week from September 18. It is rated PG-13, and Susanne Bier directs from a script by Akiva Goldsman and Georgia Pritchett.
The first Practical Magic opened in October 1998 to weak reviews, then found a huge second life on cable and streaming. Stockard Channing returns as Aunt Frances.
Dianne Wiest is back as Aunt Jet. Both aunts are Oscar-recognised: Wiest has two wins, Channing an acting nomination for Six Degrees of Separation.
Maisie Williams and Joey King play the grown daughters, shifting the story onto the younger women of the family for the first time.
It adapts The Book of Magic, the 2021 novel Alice Hoffman wrote to close out her Owens family series, rather than inventing a sequel from scratch.
The Foundation and Guardians of the Galaxy actor is one of the newcomers, alongside British actor Solly McLeod.
The Cobra Kai and Blue Beetle star rounds out the new faces, bringing the credited principal cast to nine.
Set roughly 25 years on, the plot turns on the family curse again as a discovery about where the Owens magic began forces the women to break it together.
Four returning cast members, five new ones and one curse to break. Practical Magic 2 reaches US theatres on September 11.