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Disney Moving Forward On ‘Hocus Pocus 2: Rise of the Elderwitch’
The Tracking Board is reporting that a sequel to Hocus Pocus is in the works with Melissa McCarthy producing.
According to there site, “The second installment focuses on a witch hunter who teams up with a magical housewife to stop a power-hungry evil witch.”
There’s no word yet whether the original cast will return in any capacity, but they say that Bette Midler, Sarah Jessica Parker, and Kathy Najimy will probably not be resurrected this time around.
There’s more to report as Allison Shearmur Productions has signed to produce Hocus Pocus 2: Rise of the Elderwitch and that Bryan Oh, Stephen Meinen, and Allison Shearmur herself are in charge at the company. Tendo Nagenda and Jessica Virtue are executive producing at Disney.
The aim for the two protagonist female leads is in the vein of Tina Fey and Melissa McCarthy.
The Vice Press Home Video label is back, and we’ve learned that they’re joining forces with Paramount Home Entertainment to bring Alex Proyas’ classic The Crow back to VHS.
Featuring artwork by Matt Ferguson, and formatted by both Matt Ferguson and Florey, the upcoming VHS release from Vice Press Home Video comes in two editions.
The standard slipcase edition of 1,250 features a red on tape design and will be available from both Vice Press, along with Amazon, HMV and Rarewaves on PAL format.
The Vice Press Exclusive Edition release of 250 features white tapes with black on tape design, and will only be available from Vice Press and will only be available on UK PAL format.
The Crow will be available to pre-order at 7pm ET tonight, June 22 at Vice-Press.com! Please note that PAL Format tapes will only play on European VHS players.
You’ll be able to grab both editions for £34.99 each.
In the 1994 movie starring the late Brandon Lee, Eric Draven’s fiancée is killed alongside Draven, setting the film’s revenge storyline into motion. It spawned a handful of sequels.
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