Disney’s reissue of Hocus Pocus earned another earned another $1.161 million in its second weekend to bring its 2020 cume to $3.086 million in ten days.
That puts it above the $1.4 million cume of this year’s Jurassic Park reissue and the $2.4 million from the 40th anniversary reissue of The Empire Strikes Back to make it this year’s biggest domestic rerelease.
The Kenny Ortega-directed flick, about three witches (Bette Midler, Sarah Jessica Parker and Kathy Najimy) who come back to life in modern-day Salem, was a critical and commercial flop in the summer of 1993 but slowly became a generational favorite via seasonal airings on Disney-owned TV networks, its value as gay-friendly camp and generational nostalgia from folks who grew up digging the PG-rated horror comedy.
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