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Because it was so cool and Disney had the funding to back it up the film. Things You Didnt Know About Hocus Pocus. Its time to brace ourselves for Halloween everything. Between sewing costumes and planning parties and decorating the crap out our homes, who doesnt love to watch a classic Halloween themed movie to get into the spirit Hocus Pocusis that movie for a lot of Halloween fanatics. This 1. 99. 3 classic from director Kenny Ortega was the perfect combination of hilarious, campy, and spooky. What else can you expect when you put Sarah Jessica Parker, Bette Midler, and Kathy Najimy together The film has become a cult classic film and airs on Halloween on The Disney Channel every year. There are a ton of facts about this movie that even the most hardcore Hocus Pocus fans dont know, from original casting and live insects to box office blues. We put together fifteen of the most interesting and surprising ones for Hocus Pocus. Check out these 1. Things You Didnt Know About Hocus Pocus. Leonardo Di. Caprio and Rosie ODonnell turned down roles for the film. Leonardo Di. Caprio was originally offered the part of Max Dennison, the goofy teen lead who inadvertently awakens the Sanderson sisters. Di. Caprio, who was at the tender age of nineteen but babyfaced, as we all remember at the time, ended up turning it down to star in the famous iconic drama Whats Eating Gilbert Grape with Johnny Depp. Sabrina The Teenage Witch In Friends Forever Movie On Dvd' title='Sabrina The Teenage Witch In Friends Forever Movie On Dvd' />It worked out for him he got his first Oscar nomination for Best Supporting Actor. Rosie ODonnell was another could have been Hocus Pocus star. She was offered the role of Mary Sanderson, the goofball Sanderson sister. ODonnell turned the role down because she was worried that playing a scary witch who murders children would harm her image and pigeonhole her into similar roles. The role ended up going to the talented Kathy Najimy instead, and Rosie ODonnell didnt miss out on much she went on to play Becky in Sleepless in Seattle that same year, on top of several other film roles. Hocus Pocus is Bette Midlers favorite film. In 2. 00. 8, Bette Midler was interviewed by the BBC. She claimed that Hocus Pocus, out of all her famous roles, including the television show about her life called Bette, was handsdown her favorite movie and Winifred Sanderson was her favorite role. For a movie to be in ones portfolio for over twenty years, its pretty cool that Bette still loves Hocus Pocus above all her other work. In an interview with ENews, Bette Midler talked about why she considers the Halloween movie to be her favorite. I love it, said Midler, We made it before the tidal wave of Halloween happened. Now its like huge. Its hugekids, grown ups, everyone takes part in it. This movie was kind of like the beginning of the wave. We laughed the whole time, and we flew We flew And we got to wear like crazy noses and fake teeth and all those sorts of things. It was supposed to be a Disney Channel Original Movie. Our glorious Hocus Pocus nearly got shoved into the Disney Channel Original Movie vault. Because it was so cool and Disney had the funding to back it up the film ended up becoming an actual feature film. A few bigger studio heads at Disney read the screenplay and decided that Hocus Pocus had a chance to become something really big. And they were right, at least after the initial box office burn. The change from TV movie to feature film might have also had something to do with the fact that the makeup used in the film was deemed too frightening by Disney, especially for a Disney Channel flick. Regardless, makeup artist Tony Gardner claimed that they ended up toning the makeup down anyway for the final product. Plus, Hocus Pocus is the first Disney film to use the word virgin. Imagine the angry mob that would have formed in 1. Disney Channel instead. Billy coughed real moths. The things great artists and actors do for artistic integrity. There arent a lot of famous actors out there that are willing to do their own stunts, let alone keep live moths sealed in their mouths for a scene. Actor Doug Jones, the not so dead face behind reanimated corpse Billy Butcherson in Hocus Pocus, spoke at a panel for the 2. Hocus Pocus at Walt Disney Studios in Los Angeles a few years back. During the panel, Jones claimed that the moths you see flying out of his mouth in the scene where he comes back to life and cuts his mouth stitches open were 1. Special effects makeup artists used a dental dam yes, thats an oral condom to keep the fluttery bugs from going down Jones throat and becoming too moist to fly out. They had a trainer on set with little tweezers to put them on my tongue, said Jones at the panel. Gross. 1. 1. It wasnt released on Halloween or even in October. Since Hocus Pocus is an iconic Halloween film, youd think it would have burst into theaters in October. However, Hocus Pocus was released on July 1. The weird release date was one of several reasons why the film did poorly commercially at the time. Really, a Halloween movie in the summer Not a lot of people were interested or in the Halloween spirit right after Independence Day. Producers probably did this in order to avoid the hefty 1. Halloween time releases that they were competing with, including The Nightmare Before Christmas another massively famous Halloween and Christmas film and Addams Family Values. Like Hocus Pocus, both of these movies didnt do great at their releases but did eventually become cult 9. If that much anticipated and very ambiguous sequel ever does happen in the near future, we hope it will come out during October this time around. Sarah Jessica Parkers witchy ancestor. Sarah Jessica Parker, who is known for her role as columnist Carrie Bradshaw on Sex and the City and as Sarah Sanderson in Hocus Pocus, is a lot more similar to her witchy character than youd think. The TLC show Who Do You Think You Are Parker was on the show and found out a lot of cool stuff about her predecessors. One of the crazier discoveries was the fact that her tenth great grandmother Esther Elwell was an accused witch during the infamous Salem Witch Trials. During the 1. 7th century sweep of mass hysteria, ordinary women were condemned and killed for being witches. A young girl had claimed Esther was accompanied by three spectres. Luckily for Parkers ancestor, the allegations were one of the rare ones that were dismissed and Esther didnt have to go to trial. Sarah Jessica Parker singing Come Little Children yes, that was her actually singing in the movie seems a lot more authentic now that we know this little known fact. It started out as a bedtime story. Thats quite a freaky bedtime story. David Kirschner is an American film producer behind great cheesy cult classic gems including the Chucky movies and the adventure animated film An American Tail. Kirschner was one of the producers of Hocus Pocus and actually came up with the films plot when he wrote a bedtime story for his own kids. He talked about it at the 2. Los Angeles a few years ago. Hed originally submitted the idea to Muppets Magazine. People really liked what they read, and that lead to what is now known as the spooky fun film Hocus Pocus. Kirschner was clearly passionate about the idea of Hocus Pocus becoming a movie. He and other filmmakers pitched the story to Disney executives by decorating the conference room with broomsticks, a vacuum cleaner, and fifteen pounds of candy. The broomsticks and vacuum were hung from the ceiling. How could an executive say no to that Hocus Pocus did terribly when it was first released. Thats just unfair. It may not be an Academy Award winning film, but it was the pinnacle of nineties campy fun. Due to that lame release date and poor reviews, Hocus Pocus didnt initially do that well at the box office. Bunyan And Babe Video Download on this page. Famous critic Roger Ebert notoriously ripped the film apart Hocus Pocus is a film desperately in need of self discipline. Its one of those projects where you imagine everyone laughing and applauding each other after every scene, because theyre so convinced theyre wild and crazy guys. Sabrina Goes to Rome Wikipedia. Sabrina Goes to Rome is a 1. ABC. The film is a part of the Sabrina the Teenage Witch TV series franchise and is the second TV film made for the series following the 1. Sabrina the Teenage Witch film, which was produced before the TV series went into production. The film features only two main characters from the TV series, the protagonist Sabrina Spellman played by Melissa Joan Hart, and other main character Salem Saberhagen voiced by Nick Bakay. The film introduces the character of Gwen played by Tara Charendoff, a British witch, whom Sabrina meets in Rome. As the film is set in Rome, none of the scenes are set on the original set of the TV series. The film was directed by Tibor Takcs, the director of the original Sabrina the Teenage Witch film. Takcs also directed an episode of the TV series. Due to the success of Sabrina Goes to Rome, ABC produced a sequel titled Sabrina Down Under. This film again only included Sabrina and Salem from the TV series. Tara Charendoff reprised her role of Gwen for the second film. The film is included in the season 7 DVD release of the Sabrina the Teenage Witch TV series. If Sabrina cannot open a mysterious antique gold locket and release the power trapped within, her Aunt Sophia will be lost forever. The secret to the locket lies in Rome, her father says. Sabrina heads for Italy and the Eternal City of Rome, for what was supposed to be two cat less weeks to herself. Unknown to her she is accompanied by Salem who has stowed away in her backpack. Sabrina finds an unexpected roommate Gwen, a British witch with a talking guinea pig named Stonehenge nicknamed Stony. At the inn where she is staying, Sabrina learns that her Aunt Sophia was banished and trapped in the locket because she fell in love with a mortal who betrayed her and revealed to a friend that she was a witch. Later while traveling the city, she meets Paul, the gorgeous American photographer who catches her before she falls into the famous Trevi Fountain. Together, Sabrina and Gwen set out to solve the mystery of the locket. When Paul and his friend Travis witness Sabrina doing magic, while turning a walking statue to stone that Gwen brought to life by accident they come up with an idea to sell the story. In the end Paul doesnt betray Sabrina, which sets Aunt Sophia free, as the locket says Trust your heart. Melissa Joan Hart as Sabrina Spellman, a teenage witch, visiting Rome to unlock the mystery of her aunt Sophias locket to stop Sophia being lost forever. Aunt Sophia looks just like Sabrina hinting that Melissa Joan Hart acted as Aunt Sophia in her few appearances She has to learn to trust her heart when she finds out Pauls secret. Eddie Mills as Paul, an adopted American photographer, who saves Sabrina from falling into the famous Trevi Fountain. Paul finds out that Sabrina is a witch, and he tries to get evidence on video camera, so that he can sell the story along with Travis. After Sabrina reunites him with his real family in Italy, he doesnt want to expose her and destroys the video evidence. Tara Charendoff as Gwen, a British witch whose spells never go the way she plans. She helps Sabrina unlock the locket. She has a crush on Alberto, who she accidentally turns into a pigeon. To change him back she has to kiss him, however there is no way of her knowing which pigeon he is. James Fields as Travis, a friend of Pauls who intends to gather evidence to expose Sabrina as a witch and become rich. Eric Alexander as Alberto, a handsome young man who Gwen accidentally turns into a pigeon. Determined to turn him back into a human, Gwen ends up randomly kissing pigeons in hopes of changing Alberto back. When she is about to give up, she relents on kissing a pigeon who keeps visiting her and Alberto is restored to human form. Nick Bakay as the voice of Salem Saberhagen, a 5. Salem stows away in Sabrinas backpack and once in Rome, befriends Stony to gain free food from outdoor eateries, as people dont take kindly to finding a guinea pig in their food. Richard Steven Horvitz as the voice of Stonehenge. As part of the Sabrina the Teenage Witch book collection, a book titled Sabrina the Teenage Witch Sabrina Goes to Rome is available. The book is credited to author Mel Odom and the films screenwriter Daniel Berendsen. It is unnumbered, as is the second films book adaptation. The other books in the series are numbered in reading order. The book adds in a subplot not shown in the film featuring Sabrinas aunts back in Westbridge spying on Harvey and a mysterious girl named Tish. This also references previous continuity from the TV series, where Hilda has brought back the three butlers the aunts used to employ as shown in season 1s The Great Mistake. As part of the Sabrina, the Teenage Witch Salems Tails book collection, a book titled Salems Tails Salem Goes to Rome is available. The book tells Salems tale of his trip to Rome. This book is also unnumbered. External linksedit.