{"id":33098,"date":"2015-11-19T16:24:19","date_gmt":"2015-11-19T23:24:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.entertainmentearth.com\/news\/?p=33098"},"modified":"2019-03-06T15:21:22","modified_gmt":"2019-03-06T23:21:22","slug":"bette-midler-confirms-no-hocus-pocus-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.entertainmentearth.com\/news\/bette-midler-confirms-no-hocus-pocus-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Every Millennial&#8217;s Heart Just Broke as Bette Midler Confirms No Hocus Pocus Sequel"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.entertainmentearth.com\/hitlist.asp?searchfield=disney&amp;id=EN-407186506\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>Disney&#8217;s<\/strong><\/a> 1993 Halloween film <em><strong>Hocus Pocus<\/strong><\/em> didn&#8217;t perform well upon initial release but it has since become a cult classic.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s played numerous times every October now, to the thunderous applause of Millennials (myself included).<\/p>\n<p>We&#8217;ve all been clamoring for a sequel, and the three witchy sisters, Winifred (Bette Midler), Mary (Kathy Najimy), and Sarah (Sarah Jessica Parker), have supported the idea over the years.<\/p>\n<p>However, it seems that dream has come to an end. In a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/BetteMidler\/posts\/977316588994476\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" class=\"broken_link\">Facebook Q&amp;A<\/a> on Tuesday, <strong>Bette Midler<\/strong> replied to a fan&#8217;s query about a sequel: &#8220;After all these years and all the fan demand, I do believe I can stand and firmly say an unequivocal no.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Oof. That&#8217;s not a &#8220;probably not&#8221; or a &#8220;not at this time,&#8221; that&#8217;s a big, fat, hard no.<\/p>\n<p>We were counting on you, Disney!<\/p>\n<p>To feel better, watch this compilation of hilarious scenes and tell us why you love <em>Hocus Pocus<\/em> so much!<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/FvbvECw1bUU\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><em>Source: <a href=\"http:\/\/comicbook.com\/2015\/11\/19\/bette-midler-says-there-will-not-be-a-hocus-pocus-sequel\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">ComicBook.Com<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Disney&#8217;s 1993 Halloween film Hocus Pocus didn&#8217;t perform well upon initial release but it has since become a cult classic. It&#8217;s played numerous times every October now, to the thunderous applause of Millennials (myself included). We&#8217;ve all been clamoring for a sequel, and the three witchy sisters, Winifred (Bette Midler), Mary (Kathy Najimy), and Sarah [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":40,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[11,108],"tags":[3540,402,3145,112,3461],"yst_prominent_words":[8617,27386,27383,27384,26924,27387,27385,13017,17262,11792],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.entertainmentearth.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33098"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.entertainmentearth.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.entertainmentearth.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.entertainmentearth.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/40"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.entertainmentearth.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=33098"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.entertainmentearth.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33098\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":64506,"href":"https:\/\/www.entertainmentearth.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33098\/revisions\/64506"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.entertainmentearth.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33098"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.entertainmentearth.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=33098"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.entertainmentearth.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=33098"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.entertainmentearth.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=33098"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}