‘Practical Magic 2’ Release Date, Cast, Plot, Trailer and More

Nearly three decades after two witch sisters made midnight margaritas part of the cultural lexicon, ‘Practical Magic’ is finally getting a follow up. Sandra Bullock and Nicole Kidman are returning as Sally and Gillian Owens, and Warner Bros. has spent the past year rolling out details about the long awaited sequel piece by piece. The original film never performed well at the box office when it opened in October 1998, but it steadily grew into a genuine cult favorite over the years that followed.

With production wrapped and marketing underway, fans finally have a clearer picture of what ‘Practical Magic 2’ will look like, who is in it, and when they can see it. Here is everything confirmed so far about the sequel’s release date, cast, plot, and trailer.

‘Practical Magic 2’ Release Date

Practical Magic 2 is currently scheduled to open in North American theaters on September 11, 2026, after Warner Bros. moved the date up from its original placement. Warner Bros. originally set the film for September 18, and older coverage may still reference that earlier date, but the studio has since shifted the release forward by one week.

On its earlier release date, the film was set to open the same day as Zach Cregger’s Resident Evil reboot from Sony, though that scheduling conflict has since shifted along with the new date. The film was first confirmed through an official post on X in May, accompanied by a short spell recited by Bullock and Kidman that ended with the release date itself.

Filming took place in the United Kingdom, including Warner Bros. Studios Leavesden in Hertfordshire and various locations around London, with production beginning in July 2025 and wrapping that September. That relatively quick turnaround suggests the studio has been building toward a fall 2026 release for some time.

Although the film is being marketed as a theatrical exclusive for now, it is expected to eventually land on HBO Max, since that is where Warner Bros. Discovery has housed the original ‘Practical Magic’ as well. No streaming date has been confirmed.

‘Practical Magic 2’ Cast

Sandra Bullock and Nicole Kidman return as Sally and Gillian Owens, joined by Joey King and Maisie Williams as Sally’s daughters, Lee Pace as a new character named Ian Wright, and returning cast members Stockard Channing and Dianne Wiest reprising their roles as the Owens aunts. Joey King plays Kylie Owens while Maisie Williams plays Antonia Owens, with current trailer coverage identifying both as Sally’s daughters rather than Gillian’s.

The cast has also expanded to include Lee Pace, Xolo Maridueña, and Solly McLeod in roles that remain largely under wraps, which has left fans speculating about possible romantic entanglements, new magical threats, and hidden ties to the Owens family line. Warner Bros. has been deliberately tight lipped about how these new characters fit into the story.

In the original film, Bullock and Kidman played sisters raised by their aunts, played by Channing and Wiest, following the deaths of their parents, and the story followed the sisters as they contended with a family curse that dooms the men they fall for. That established dynamic between the four original leads appears to remain the emotional backbone of the sequel.

Akiva Goldsman, one of the writers on the original film, penned the screenplay for the sequel, while Susanne Bier, who recently worked with Kidman on The Perfect Couple, directed. Kidman told Variety in February that the sequel was moving ahead rapidly, a comment made to the outlet as production ramped up.

‘Practical Magic 2’ Plot

The original film was adapted from Alice Hoffman’s 1995 novel of the same name, and followed the Owens sisters as they learned to harness their supernatural abilities to break an ancestral curse responsible for several untimely deaths and a family inability to sustain romantic relationships. The sequel picks up years later and shifts focus to the next generation of Owens witches, the daughters played by Maisie Williams and Joey King.

Warner Bros. has been careful not to reveal too much about the plot, though the sequel reportedly draws on Alice Hoffman’s novel The Book of Magic, which continues the literary world she built around the Owens family. The story is said to take place roughly 25 years after the events of the original movie, with the narrative moving away from Sally and Gillian and toward the younger Owens women and the secrets buried within their family history.

Sally has settled into the kind of quiet life expected of someone who has spent decades trying to outrun a family curse, tending a vegetable garden, baking elaborate cakes, and doing her best to avoid thinking about magic altogether. Whether a character has to die to break the curse this time around has not been confirmed by Warner Bros., though fans have speculated about a possible sacrifice since the trailer first dropped.

The central mystery of the franchise remains intact, with any man who falls deeply in love with an Owens woman still facing a tragic fate. In the newest trailer footage, Joey King’s character realizes her boyfriend is at risk of dying from the curse and sets out to break it herself, suggesting the younger generation will carry much of the film’s emotional stakes.

‘Practical Magic 2’ Trailer

The second trailer for the film was released on June 24 and set to Lana Del Rey’s slowed down cover of Season of the Witch, delving further into the film’s plot than the first teaser did. That Lana Del Rey cover has reportedly stuck with fans since it dropped, closing out the trailer on a suitably eerie note.

The initial announcement arrived as a short, text only teaser rather than a full trailer, with Bullock and Kidman reciting an incantation on the soundtrack before revealing the release date at the end. That same chant, described by Warner Bros. as an incantation, ended with the words tooth of wolf and morning dew, something old and something new, let the spell begin to mix, before naming the release date.

Principal photography has wrapped, and the film now has both an official teaser and a full trailer, alongside its confirmed theatrical release date. That puts ‘Practical Magic 2’ further along in its marketing rollout than most legacy sequels are at this point in the calendar year.

For a franchise that spent years in development limbo, including a scrapped prequel series that never made it to air, ‘Practical Magic 2’ arriving with a finished trailer and a firm date feels like real progress. What are you hoping the sequel gets right about Sally and Gillian’s story, and are you more curious about the new generation of Owens witches or a reunion between the original sisters.