Nearly four decades ago, in 1984, David Kirschner arrived early for a meeting with then-Disney executive Jeffrey Katzenberg carrying a broomstick, a mop and a hollowed-out Electrolux vacuum. He cal…
ago, in 1984, David Kirschner arrived early for a meeting with then-Disney executive Jeffrey Katzenberg carrying a broomstick, a mop and a hollowed-out Electrolux vacuum.
That day, he pitched what would become “Hocus Pocus,” Disney’s enduring 1993 Halloween classic starring Bette Midler, Kathy Najimy and Sarah Jessica Parker as the fearsome-yet-kooky Sanderson sisters resurrected in the present day. The film was inspired by a bedtime story he told his daughters about a once-human black cat cursed by witches to live in all eternity as a feline.
The nominations — coupled with 2.7 billion minutes streamed in its opening weekend last September — are a delayed yet welcome validation of the film’s unorthodox three-decade journey from box office disaster to a beloved Halloween hit. All it took was rewriting the film’s fate through the magic of television.
. “Moms grew up playing with Barbie and they wanted the same for their daughters,” he says. “Parents wanted to pass this movie on to their kids, the way we do with the experiences we had as kids.”
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