Sabrina: Wicked New Friends (2028 Animated Film)

Sabrina: Wicked New Friends (also known as Sabrina 2: Wicked New Friends in Some PAL Territories or simply Sabrina 2) is a 2028 animated crossover movie and a sequel to  produced by DreamWorks Animation and Archie Comics and Distributed by NBCUniversal. The film is based on the Archie and Sabrina The Teenage Witch comic book series made by Archie Comics. The movie premiered in Los Angeles on July,10th,2028, and July,14th,2028 in North America, The United Kindgom and Oceania, Same day as the opening ceremony of the 2028 Summer Olympic Games. This is the Seventh Film based the Sabrina The Teenage Witch comic book series after Sabrina The Teenage Witch in 1996, Sabrina in Rome in 1998, Sabrina Down Under in 1999, Sabrina Friends Forever in 2002, Sabrina: Being Wicked Rules in 2009, and it's predecessor Sabrina The Teenage Witch in 2024 and the Third movie to be based on the Archie Franchise after Archie: To Riverdale and Back Again in 1990 and it's reboot Archie: The Movie in 2026.

The movie was once again directed by The Bad Guys(2022) director Pierre Perifel and produced by Christopher Miller and Phil Lord and Stars Miranda Cosgrove as Sabrina Spellman, Roger Craig Smith as Archie Andrews, Josh Peck as Harvey Kinkle, Keke Palmer as Chloe Flan, Ben Schwartz as Seth, Josh Brener as Salem Saberhagen,  Zendaya as Veronica Lodge, Millie Bobby Brown as Betty Cooper, Caleb McLaughlin as Chuck Clayton, Danny Pudi as Jughead Jones ,Charlie Day as Reggie Mantle and Xochitl Gomez as Katie La More.

The film was critically acclaimed by critics, much like it's predecessor.

Plot
Taking Place 4 years after the original film, The year is now 2028, and Sabrina and her friends are getting ready to begin their Junior Year of College. When Sabrina and friends arrive at the college there attending, The get assigned to their dorm rooms and none of them has a clue who their dorm mates are. Meanwhile in Jail, Katie La More, who was arrested at the end of the first movie, is thinking of a way of getting revenge on Sabrina after claiming that she "got her locked up in jail", and thus, stumbles upon Reggie Mantle, who is thinking of a plan to getting revenge on Archie, afterwards, the befriend each other and combine their plans to getting revenge on both Sabrina and Archie and also their friends. Meanwhile at college, Sabrina is sitting reading a book in her dorm room, when her dorm mate Veronica Lodge, arrives and the two have a conversation and becoming friends not long after. The same happens with Harvey, Seth, and Chloe with their roommates, Archie, Chuck and Betty. Meanwhile, that same night, Katie and Reggie are discussing how they could break from Jail and also how they could easily annihilate Sabrina and Archie, they both agree to do the plan the next day and thus both go to bed.

Meanwhile, back at College, Sabrina and friends are easily getting used to their roommates and thus forming bigger friendships. As the first day begins, They are easily ready to begin their junior year of college. After Many Classes later, Sabrina, Harvey, Seth, Chloe, Archie, Chuck, Veronica, and Betty are all together at lunch and thus get to know one another and form an even bigger friendship. A few moments later, Jughead Jones (Archie's Frenemy) walks in and disturbs the strong conversation, afterwards the conversation continues. Meanwhile, Back in Jail, Katie and Reggie are discussing the plan during lunch, and shortly after, they put their plan into activate, They distract a police guard who is checking up on them, when Reggie makes the guard look, he punches him in the face and thus knocks him out, and both Him and Katie get out of Jail easily, and reveal that the next plan was to 'sabotage' Sabrina's and Archie's friendships with their roommates.

The Same Night, Katie and Reggie sneak into the dorms Archie and Sabrina are sleeping in, and write mean messages to their roommates that would later end their friendships. The Morning arrives and a huge argument witch shows a big argument between Sabrina and Veronica which later ends their friendship and the same occurs with Harvey and Archie. During their lunch period, Sabrina and Archie meet up in the lunchroom and discuss what went wrong, before Sabrina and Archie's friends have a giant argument. Meanwhile, In Disguise, Katie and Reggie celebrate with most of their plan going according to plan. Later that night, Veronica goes through Sabrina's notes and later realizes that the handwriting shown on the note that Katie wrote wasn't Sabrina's handwriting, Same with Harvey as he notices that the message writing by Reggie was not in fact Archie's handwriting, Both of them later regret what they had done and organizes a meeting later that night. During the meeting, Katie and Reggie are found shocked that they actually knew that Sabrina and Archie didn't write the messages, and are upset to know the fact that there plan is falling apart, and thus switch to plan B which is to physically kill Sabrina and Archie.

The Day after, Both Archie and Sabrina's friends apologize to one another and thus agree to continue their friendships where they left off. Meanwhile, Katie and Reggie has finally prepared for what they are going to do in order to kill Sabrina, Archie and their friends and agree to strike first thing after the College Day is done. After the College ends, Sabrina walks into her dorm only to find Katie stuck to a wall with Duct Taped to a wall, Sabrina then walks in to her other friends dorms, to find out that they have been duct taped also, Same thing Occurs with Archie. When Sabrina and Archie finally meet, they read a note that was left by Reggie and Katie, and thus an epic battle breaks out between the pairs, during the battle, Salem, like what he did in the first film, goes full samurai, and thus shows his karate moves and beat up Reggie and Katie, in which those two later get arrested for attempted manslaughter and for escaping. A few moments later, Sabrina and Archie un-taped their friends and praise them for saving them. Then, Many Students of the College thank Sabrina and Archie for saving them from complete chaos and thus are awarded the key to the University.

Cast
Miranda Cosgrove as Sabrina Spellman, A 20 year old witch who got her powers at 16 and Harvey's love interest, Also Executive Producer

Josh Peck as Harvey Kinkle, A 20 year old mortal who is Sabrina's boyfriend, Also Executive Producer

Keke Palmer as Chloe, A 20 year old mortal who is friends with Sabrina

Ben Schwartz as Seth, A 20 year old mortal who is friends with Sabrina

Josh Brener as Salem Saberhagen, Sabrina's pet cat who give her advise about being a witch

Roger Craig Smith as Archie Andrews, A 20 year old mortal who befriends Sabrina and Friends in college, Also Executive Producer

Zendaya as Veronica Lodge, A girl who has a crush on Archie

Millie Bobby Brown as Betty Cooper, A girl who also has a crush on Archie

Caleb McLaughlin as Chuck Clayton, Archie's best friend

Danny Pudi as Jughead Jones, Archie's sometimes friend, sometimes rival

Charlie Day as Reggie Mantle, Archie's arch rival who is looking to seek revenge on him and Katie's Partner

Xochitl Gomez as Katie La More, Sabrina's arch rival and a juvenile prisoner, after getting arrested in 2024, is wanting revenge on Sabrina and teams up with Reggie

Sherry Miller as Hilda Spellman, cameo appearance

Charlene Fernetz as Zelda Spellman, cameo appearance

Jimmy Fallon as Edward Spellman, Sabrina and Alejandro's Father, cameo appearance

Carolina Ravassa as Elena Spellman, Sabrina's step mother, Alejandro's biological mother, and Edward's wife, cameo appearance

Jacob Tremblay as Alejandro Spellman, Elena's biological son, Edward's step son and Sabrina's step-brother, cameo appearance

Production
In Late-2022, Christopher Miller and Phil Lord were in early discussion about a sequel with Universal and DreamWorks, stating that if the film does good commercially in theaters at the time of release, a sequel could potentially go ahead. On October,29th,2023,along with the announcement of Archie: The Movie, that Lord and Miller had stated interest in doing a tv series and a sequel to Sabrina: The Teenage Witch if it turns out successful. By December 2023, Rumors were starting to spread that a sequel was already in the works while the first film was nearing completion. Around the time the movie offically finished production on April,28th,2024, Director Pierre Perifel revealed that a sequel was indeed in early stages of development but was 'waiting on the film's commercial repetition' before plans officially go ahead. During the first film's First 4 weeks at the box office, it officially passed $1 billion dollars, which was a great sign to Miller, Lord and Perifle. Therefore, the sequel was officially announced on September,28th,2024 as well as a reboot of Sabrina: The Animated Series and a spinoff series centered around Harvey. on January, 28th,2025, it was announced that the cast from the first movie were experiencing interest into being in the movie again. At the New York Comic Con 2025, it was announced the movie will center around Sabrina and Friends as 20 year old adults attending college  and also announcing  that most of the cast will be recast in the sequel, and even giving it a release date of December,22nd,2027. On April,10th,2026, it was announced that Roger Craig Smith had join the cast, and also announcing that he will be executive producing the movie along with Josh Peck and Miranda Cosgrove. On, September,10th,2026, it was announced that the sequel had been delayed to December,20th,2028 before being pushed up to July,14th,2028 on February, 25th,2027. On July,21st,2027, it was announced that stars from the Netflix Series Stranger Things Caleb McLaughlin and Millie Bobby Brown had join the cast along with Danny Pudi and Zendaya. On September,1st,2027, it was revealed that the movie would be a crossover between the Archie and Sabrina comic book series. Not much was heard about the movie, besides the trailers, until May,12,2028, when it was revealed that the movie had finished production.

Marketing
The first trailer was released during the pre-game of Super Bowl 62 and the second trailer was released on May,24th,2028. Like it's prequel, it received many promotions but unlike the first movie promotions, most of them were promoting both the movie and the XXXIV Summer Olympic Games in Los Angeles. As part of the promotions, McDonalds released 10 Happy meal toys worldwide and features Characters from the movie doing Olympic Sports as part of McDonald's new partnership with the International Olympic Committee for 10 years. Sega also released "Sabrina: Wicked New Friends: Official Simulator" for the Nintendo Switch Pro, PlayStation 6, PlayStation 5, Xbox Revolution, Xbox Series X/S, and on Steam on May,19th,2028, as well as released a DLC for Mario and Sonic at the Olympic Games Los Angeles 2028 where Sabrina and Archie became playable characters as well as skins for Olympic Games Los Angeles 2028- The Official Video Game. In addition, Kraft, once again, released Mac and Cheese shapes to promote the movie and the Summer Games, as part of Kraft's "Eat Like a Champion" Campaign which promotes the Los Angeles 2028 Olympics and Paralympics. Throughout Summer 2028, AMC Movie Theaters across America gave out 10 Olympic and Paralympic pins featuring Sabrina and Archie Character to AMC Stubs members. In Addition, Many NBC Stations across the United States of America had an even during the first 2 weeks of July 2028 had an event where Sabrina and Archie took over NBC. During the coverage of the Opening Ceremony of the Los Angeles Olympic Games, NBC Commentators was joined by Miranda Cosgrove, Josh Peck, Roger Craig Smith and Zendaya for commentary for the event and for many other Olympic Events. Also, like the first film in 2024, The movie was advertised across Universal theme parks worldwide, including stuff like backpacks, plushies and more. In Addition, Nike released T-Shirts of Sabrina and Archie characters wearing Nike Clothing and also supporting Team USA, and also released limited edition sneakers.

Box Office
The film was a box office success just like the first film in 2024, grossing over 1.2 billion dollars at the box office, $1,000,000 more than the first film, grossing over $700 million at the North American Box Office and another $500 million worldwide. Critics said that "it was able to do the impossible" as it defeated Avatar 5 in becoming the highest grossing movie of 2028 and the highest grossing animated movie. It surpassed the first film in becoming DreamWorks highest grossing movie and it surpassed the amount of money it made on it's second to last week in theaters.

Critical Response
It received an 88% on Rotten Tomatoes, 6% less than the original, It was the third highest reviewed film of 2028. The movie was enjoyed by critics and audiences. It received an 9/10 on IMDb and a 4.5/5 on Common Sense Media. It was also TIME magazine's "best film of 2028". It also received an "A" on CinemaScore and also a 86/100 on Metacritic, which indicated "Universal Acclaim".

Release
The movie was originally set to release of December,22nd,2027 but was later delayed to December,20th,2028 on September,10th,2026, it was later pushed up to July,14th,2028 on February,25th,2027. It had it World Premiere at the Crypto.com Center in Los Angeles, California (venue of the 2028 games) on July,10th,2028 and was attended by many Current and Formal Olympians, guest included Michael Phelps, Sky Brown, former Los Angeles Laker LeBron James, Simone Biles, Noah Lyles, Tom Daley, Katie Ledecky, and more. The event was also attended by former US Presidents Bill Clinton, George W. Bush, and Barack Obama, Former First Ladies Hilary Clinton, Laura Bush, and Michelle Obama, The Democratic Nominee for the 2028 Presidential Election, Antonio Delgado, in which he won in a landslide, and Former International Olympic Committee and 1976 Olympic Gold Medalist, Thomas Bach. It was also attended by people in Mario and Sonic Mascot Costumes, and also in costumes of the Olympic and Paralympic Mascots from 2004-2028, and also in costumes of the New York Mets mascot, Mr. Met and New York Islanders mascot, Sparky the Dragon and was also attended by people of All ages and all demographics. People who attended says, "It was like a Part 1 of the Opening Ceremony and was also a great experience for kids." Universal themselves claimed it to be "The Best World Premiere to ever be held." The Event even won a Guinness World Record for "The largest World Premiere attendance" and was given a nickname of the "Olympic Premiere". The movie was released on Digital on September,5th,2028 and on DVD and Blu-Ray and on Peacock on September,8th,2028. It was re-released in theaters on November,1st,2028 along with a new Half Hour special, Sabrina's Wicked Friendsgiving.

Sequel
On December,31st,2028, DreamWorks released a tweet with a picture with Salem sleeping inside a number 3, and the text on top said, "Thank You so much for a totally wicked 2028, because of you, Sabrina: Wicked New Friends became the highest grossest movie of 2028, and we even broke a Guinness World Record for the Largest World Premiere attendance, we still have one more surprise before the year officially comes to a close, which is to announce that a third installment of the Sabrina Franchise is in the works, we don't have an official name for it for now, but we're just going to call it Sabrina 3, stay tuned through out 2029 and above for updates on Sabrina 3, that's all from DreamWorks, thank you all once again for a wicked 2028 and here's to a even wickeder 2029." The film was titled Steven: Son of Sabrina and was released in North America on December,22nd,2032.

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