(Welcome to Tales from the Box Office, our column that examines box office miracles, disasters, and everything in between, as well as what we can learn from them.)Nearly two decades removed from its initial theatrical release in the summer of 1993, “Hocus Pocus” has become a bona fide Halloween season classic and an absolute staple for many who watched it while growing up. It might be easy to forget, given that history has been quite kind to the family-friendly spooky season feature, that “Hocus Pocus” was not set up to succeed upon its original release and,…The post Tales From the Box Office: How Hocus Pocus Went from Flop to Halloween Cult Classic appeared first on /Film.
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