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Pink Villa
19-07-2025
- Entertainment
- Pink Villa
Practical Magic 2 Begins Production: Know All About Sequel Starring Sandra Bullock and Nicole Kidman
Practical Magic is set to return to the big screens as the sequel to the 1998 film is in the works. According to the media reports, Sandra Bullock and Nicole Kidman are set to reprise their roles as the Owens sisters. In the new update, the cast and the crew have begun filming, as the Babygirl actress and the director of the second movie, Susanne Bier, shared a video from the sets on their social media. In the caption of the clip, Kidman, confirming her and Bullock' s return, wrote, 'The witches are back.' She added, 'Owens sisters' first day on set!' Everything we know about Practical Magic 2 As the fans highly anticipate the return of Sandra Bullock and Nicole Kidman together on the screen, they will also be joined by Oscar Winner Dianne Wiest and Oscar nominee Stockard Channing, who, too, will reprise their roles of Aunt Jet and Aunt Franny. For the cast, new faces will also join the veterans. As per the media reports, The Kissing Booth star Joey King has been roped in to play the role of Sally's daughter. Other new joinees include Lee Pace, Maisie Williams, Xolo Maridueña, and Solly McLeod. While the character details of the new cast have been kept under wraps, they are expected to stir the pot, making the new movie of the franchise spookier than the original one. Meanwhile, Bier has taken the director's chair for the sequel, while Akiva Goldsman and Georgia Pritchett have penned the script. The filmmaker has previously worked with both the Ocean's Eight actress and Kidman. She directed Netflix's Bird Box, wherein Bullock starred in the lead role. Moreover, Bier also directed Kidman's recent project, The Perfect Couple. The original film of the franchise was directed by Griffin Dune. Practical Magic 2 is scheduled to release on September 18, 2026.
See - Sada Elbalad
22-05-2025
- Entertainment
- See - Sada Elbalad
Joey King in Talks to Star in "Practical Magic 2"
Yara Sameh Joey King is in negotiations to star in 'Practical Magic 2' alongside Sandra Bullock and Nicole Kidman. If the deal closes, King will play the daughter of Bullock's character. Bullock and Kidman are reprising their roles as Sally and Gillian Owens, two sisters who descend from a long line of witches. In the original 1998 movie, the duo finds themselves fighting off a curse that kills the men they fall in love with. While plot details for the second film haven't been revealed, sources say the story is based on a later installment in Alice Hoffman's 'Practical Magic' book series. Susanne Bier is directing 'Practical Magic 2' from a screenplay by Akiva Goldsman, who co-wrote the first film. It's aiming to start production in London later this summer. Warner Bros. will release the witchy sequel in theaters on September 18, 2026. In a recent conversation with Variety , Kidman said that she's seen the script but doesn't expect to begin filming 'for a while.' But what's a few more weeks or months, at this point? The Oscar-winning actress revealed she's been waiting nearly 30 years for the follow-up to 'Practical Magic.' 'When we were making it, we definitely [thought about a sequel],' she said. 'We're so excited. We put out our spell already.' Kidman's referring to the teaser that Warner Bros. released earlier in May. The clip featured a voiceover from Bullock and Kidman, who chant the following incantation: 'Tooth of wolf and morning dew. Something old and something new. Let the spell begin to mix. Sept. 18, 2026.' King is best known for Netflix's 'The Kissing Booth' franchise, as well as Hulu's true-crime series 'The Act,' which earned her an Emmy nomination. The 25-year-old actress' other major credits include 'Despicable Me 4,' David Leitch's action-comedy 'Bullet Train,' Christopher Nolan's 'The Dark Knight Rises,' and 'Crazy Stupid Love.' read more New Tourism Route To Launch in Old Cairo Ahmed El Sakka-Led Play 'Sayidati Al Jamila' to Be Staged in KSA on Dec. 6 Mandy Moore Joins Season 2 of "Dr. Death" Anthology Series Don't Miss These Movies at 44th Cairo Int'l Film Festival Today Amr Diab to Headline KSA's MDLBEAST Soundstorm 2022 Festival Arts & Culture Mai Omar Stuns in Latest Instagram Photos Arts & Culture "The Flash" to End with Season 9 Arts & Culture Ministry of Culture Organizes four day Children's Film Festival Arts & Culture Canadian PM wishes Muslims Eid-al-Adha News Egypt confirms denial of airspace access to US B-52 bombers News Ayat Khaddoura's Final Video Captures Bombardment of Beit Lahia News Australia Fines Telegram $600,000 Over Terrorism, Child Abuse Content Arts & Culture Nicole Kidman and Keith Urban's $4.7M LA Home Burglarized Sports Former Al Zamalek Player Ibrahim Shika Passes away after Long Battle with Cancer Sports Neymar Announced for Brazil's Preliminary List for 2026 FIFA World Cup Qualifiers News Prime Minister Moustafa Madbouly Inaugurates Two Indian Companies Arts & Culture New Archaeological Discovery from 26th Dynasty Uncovered in Karnak Temple Business Fear & Greed Index Plummets to Lowest Level Ever Recorded amid Global Trade War Arts & Culture Zahi Hawass: Claims of Columns Beneath the Pyramid of Khafre Are Lies
UPI
21-05-2025
- Entertainment
- UPI
Joey King joins cast of 'Practical Magic 2'
1 of 5 | Joey King arrives on the red carpet at the Met Gala celebrating the opening of "Superfine: Tailoring Black Style" at The Metropolitan Museum of Art on May 5. She is reportedly joining the cast of the upcoming "Practical Magic" sequel. Photo by John Angelillo/UPI | License Photo May 21 (UPI) -- Joey King is reportedly joining Sandra Bullock and Nicole Kidman for the Practical Magic sequel due in theaters Sept. 18 2026. King is in talks to portray Bullock's daughter whose magical abilities cause problems for the family, per The Hollywood Reporter. Bullock and Kidman portrayed the Owens sisters in the 1998 film, which followed them as they tried to figure out how to stop a curse that caused the men they loved to die. The initial film took its inspiration from Alice Hoffman's book. "When we were making it, we definitely (thought about a sequel). We're so excited. We put our spell already," Kidman said, per Variety. King rose to fame for her role in The Kissing Booth. She also recently starred in and executive produced The Uglies. Practical Magic 2 could begin filming in London later this summer.
Yahoo
16-05-2025
- Entertainment
- Yahoo
A New Cast Joins Nicole Kidman in 'Nine Perfect Strangers' Season 2
Four years after the first season of Nine Perfect Strangers aired on Hulu — based on the 2018 novel by Liane Moriarty — the drama series is back and will debut its second season on Wednesday, May Kidman returns as Masha Dmitrichenko — the Russian founder of a wellness resort — who invites nine new strangers on a wellness retreat in the Austrian Alps, where she uses psychedelic therapy to "heal" them."I love playing this character because she's so powerful," said Nicole Kidman at the premiere party held at the Beverly Estate on May 15. "A lot of the characters that I play are in precarious emotional places, and Masha is power. That's what's so appealing. And also getting to be the puppeteer of this whole group." Among the group, Murray Bartlett of The White Lotus fame plays one of Masha's new clients. "This is an extraordinary group of people ... and they're amazing characters," Bartlett said. "The character that I get to play is just so rich — I got to be a puppeteer for the first time in my life, with voices. Just the character description alone: a kid's TV show host who's been canceled, who has deep-rooted anger issues and has a puppet. And then he takes psychedelics — so you can imagine what ensues. So it was an actor's dream, really." Maisie Richardson-Sellers (Netflix's The Kissing Booth) plays someone who tricks her girlfriend into going on a wellness retreat. "But I actually did a little bit of puppeteering as well," she said. "There was one scene when I fully donned the green suit and committed, and I was Murray's scene partner as the puppeteer in the final moment.""Maisie was extraordinary, because I have some quite emotional scenes with the puppet," said Bartlett. "And I didn't want to do it with an inanimate object. So Maisie very generously agreed to step in — was an amazing puppeteer, put me to shame. And we did these scenes together and it was a beautiful experience." "I was crying inside the green suit!" Richardson-Sellers added. "Like, it was really emotional! It was beautiful."Henry Golding (Crazy Rich Asians) and Mark Strong (Kingsman) have a great chemistry as a father and son. "I would love to be able to say that we locked ourselves in a room and did mushrooms and got into our underwear and then sang and sort of roosted to the moon—""We did do that," Strong interjected. "I gave it away! But when you're in a group like this and filming on a location, it's kind of like a big summer camp. So when Mark joined us, we'd been filming two or three weeks. And we all had dinner together, and everybody just hit it off — immediately from the start. And I think that's a testament to the people that were chosen to play these parts, and led by Nicole of course. So we got along. We didn't really need any bonding, did we?""No, it was easy. We get on," Strong said. "And I'm obviously way too young to play his father! It was a massive mistake in the casting. But we all get on."Annie Murphy (Schitt's Creek) and Christine Baranski (The Good Wife) play a mother-daughter duo. "It was fucking terrible!" Murphy said. "We haven't spoken since!" "We still haven't resolved it," Baranski said. "We got to be real assholes to each other, which was wonderful, and then go have a glass of wine at the end of the day, which was also wonderful," Murphy added. "I loved every minute.""It was a dream," Baranski followed. "This is as good a group of actors as I've ever worked with — and in those gorgeous locations, and with Nicole in the lead. It was a life experience, and we were in Europe together, and I just thought that was an extraordinary thing to spend six months in Germany and the Austrian Alps, and we're learning so much culturally. So, I came away feeling like it was a paid vacation."Singer-songwriter King Princess makes her acting debut. "I feel like I got a crash-course in acting from this wonderful cast," she said. "There were moments when I looked directly into the camera and everyone was like, 'Stop doing that! It's not a music video!' she joked. Lena Olin and Lucas Englander played an important role in the operation of Zauberwald, the new wellness facility. Did they have personal experience with unconventional wellness?"I think I'm pretty good at staying well myself, but I'm trying every day to be close to my soul and my spirit and who I am, and I think that's a very important step toward wellness," Olin said. "But this center that my character has created — and it was so fun to be in my character's castle. So I felt like, 'welcome everyone.' So it was really helpful to be in this gorgeous, incredible castle and to have these people come and stay with us.""Has anybody ever done ecstatic dance?" Englander asked the crowd. "I'm thinking maybe we can do some ecstatic dance later — that's the highest unconventional [thing I've done]. What about you Nicole, do you want to lead?" he asked."No!" Kidman said. "I'll never forget our ecstatic dancing on set," said Filipina actress Dolly de Leon. "It's a core memory for me, this series. It's my first-ever series out of my country, so it's really special.""I have the same feelings," said Turkish actor Aras Aydın, who assumes his first role in an American series. "I was so nervous and so excited. And I still feel like [my character] Matteo — not out of character. I'm still broken! I learned a lot from these beautiful women and men."After the presentation, guests at the historic estate mingled over passed bites, drinks and a table filled with a trippy display of mushroom dishes. Then, a speakeasy-slash-nightclub opened up downstairs, where the party continued on in a room filled with marionettes (even live ones).
The National
13-05-2025
- Entertainment
- The National
Jacob Elordi: 'Fame makes you feel like an impostor'
Fame can eat you alive if you let it. That is one of the lessons of the acclaimed new series Narrow Road to the Deep North. It's a lesson its star, Jacob Elordi, has had to learn the hard way. 'You feel like an impostor,' Elordi tells The National. 'You're met with this public idea of who you are, and it's never going to reflect who you actually are. 'Playing this role taught me that it's better to talk about it than bury it down for the entirety of your life.' The Australian actor, 27, has grappled with a lot in his rise to superstardom. He rocketed to fame in 2018 Netflix hit The Kissing Booth, following that up a year later with the phenomenal HBO series Euphoria. By the time Saltburn hit Amazon Prime Video in 2023, he was seemingly all anyone could talk about. The world saw his talent, to be sure, but things also got weird. He wasn't being treated as a great actor – only as a heart-throb. Increasingly, it seemed that fans and journalists alike couldn't separate him from the image built by his films and series. Perhaps that's why he saw so much of himself in Dorrigo Evans, the lead character of Narrow Road to the Deep North, now streaming on Tod in the Middle East. Dorrigo, just as he was in the Booker Prize-winning Richard Flanagan novel on which the series is based, is stoic – tormented by the divide between his public perception as a war hero and his true self that he keeps hidden inside. 'I felt it in my bones when I first read the book. He felt like a culmination of myself,' says Elordi. But unlike Dorrigo, Elordi isn't going to let the world tell him who he is. He's an actor – and a serious one at that. And while films such as Priscilla gave a hint at what's to come, Narrow Road is the start of his intentional ascent to being one of the best actors of his generation. 'I've grown up as a man of movies, and I really wouldn't have it any other way. I love movies so much,' says Elordi. Narrow Road also a homecoming. It's his first Australian lead role since moving to Los Angeles in 2017 to pursue his acting career. That's part of why he takes the role so personally. It's not just himself he sees in the character – it's the world he left behind. 'There's this unspoken Australian thing I recognised here. There's so much of my dad in Dorrigo – this stoic Australian man – and all the men I grew up with. It's hard to put it into words – it's just something that's in our bones when you're born here,' Elordi says. When series director and co-creator Justin Kurtzel (Snowtown, The Order) approached Elordi for the role, he wasn't exactly sure what Elordi was about. He knew he was talented, but he had no idea how much Elordi cared about his craft – and cared about his homeland. Kurtzel says: 'In our first conversation, we talked a lot about Australia and being back here, and our love of Australian film. 'I was really impressed with his curiosity. He just felt like a serious actor who was deeply interested in the craft. He came at everything from that perspective rather than another one,' Kurtzel continues. The more you get to know Elordi the more you find he is truly a student of the game. He's an avid subscriber to the Criterion Channel – a streaming service dedicated to classic and contemporary art house cinema – and calls the late actor Philip Seymour Hoffman 'the greatest actor of all time'. In addition to reading the novel over and over, Elordi did a lot of digging into the history of film to prep for Narrow Road. In the series, his character is captured by the Japanese and forced to work on the Burma railway – leading him to revisit classics that tread similar terrain. 'There's so much cinema. There's Merry Christmas, Mr Lawrence and Bridge Over the River Kwai. There's a lot of great collections on Criterion, too – particularly pre and post-World War II Japanese cinema. There's a ton of poetry and a great book called Behind Bamboo too – it may not be popular media but this was all really, really helpful to me,' says Elordi. For Kurtzel, much of filming Narrow Road was about getting out of the way and letting the performances of Elordi and his co-stars dominate. 'We wanted it to feel alive,' says Kurtzel. 'We shot hand-held for very, very long takes, and it was to try to make the actors feel as though they were kings on set, and we were just there to follow them. A lot of the energy of the show came from what they were giving us.' And when Elordi returned to Hollywood afterwards, he did so as a changed man. He deactivated his Instagram in November 2024 with more than 13 million followers – seemingly unthinkable in an era in which social media fame dictates someone's perceived value to film executives – and he's chugging headfirst into the next era of his career. Without the distractions that come with managing his public persona, Elordi is thriving. He'll star as Frankenstein's Monster in Oscar winner Guillermo Del Toro's Frankenstein, Heathcliff in Emerald Fennell's new adaptation of Wuthering Heights, and Hig in Ridley Scott's upcoming The Dog Stars, based on the bestselling novel. 'Now I have the freedom to make them on a regular basis and hopefully make good ones,' says Elordi. 'It's a dream come true.' Narrow Road to the Deep North is streaming on Tod in the Middle East
