While Hocus Pocus remains a beloved Halloween staple today, the Disney movie was an infamous box office bomb back in 1993. Hocus Pocus is a headliner for Disney’s Halloween movie slate every year, but it didn’t always have the nostalgia-filled popularity that it enjoys 30 years later. When Hocus Pocus premiered in 1993, it only made $40 million against an estimated $28 million budget (via Box Office Mojo). Considering the typical rule of thumb for a movie to break even is to double its initial budget, Hocus Pocus initially lost several million dollars for Disney.
One of CBS' newest sitcoms, Ghosts , features a cast full of spectral characters that each hail from a distinct time period and come with their own unique backstory and death. Though each of the eight ghosts has a wildly different perspective based on their different experiences throughout history, they nonetheless form a sort of family, which is one of the show's greatest charms. After all, being stuck with the same people for all of eternity allows for plenty of time to get to know each other. Ghosts , which is an adaptation of a BBC show of the same name, stars Utkarsh Ambudkar and Rose McIver (who played Liv Moore on five seasons of iZombie ) as Jay and Sam, a young couple who inherit a mansion in upstate New York. To their surprise, however, the house also comes with several ghostly inhabitants, who Sam is able to see after a near-death experience. These are Thorfinn (Devan Long), Sasappis (Román Zaragoza), Isaac (Brandon Scott Jones), Hetty (Rebecca Wisocky...
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