Sabrina The Teenage Witch (2024 Animated Film)

Sabrina The Teenage Witch is a 2024 animated movie produced by Dreamworks Animation and Archie Comics and distributed by NBCUniversal. The film is solely based on the comic book series of the same name and premiered at the Annecy Film Festival on June,14th,2024, July,12th,2024 in North America, and July,19th,2024 Worldwide. This is also the sixth film based on the 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 and Sabrina: Being Wicked Rules in 2009.

The movie is directed by The Bad Guys(2022) director Pierre Perifel and produced by Christopher Miller and Phil Lord and stars Miranda Cosgrove as Sabrina Spellman, Josh Peck as Harvey Hinkle, Keke Palmer as Chole Flan, Josh Brener as Salem Saberhagen, Sherry Miller as Hilda Spellman and Charlene Fernetz as Zelda Spellman, Ben Shwartz as Seth and Xochitl Gomez as Katie La More. Miller and Ferenets both reprised their roles from the 1996 live action movie.

The film was critically acclaimed by critics

Plot
Set in the year 2024, Sabrina, who lives with her guardians Hilda and Zelda in Riverdale in Bronx, New York, is offically 16 years, which means that she's a witch but doesn't notice til the day after her birthday. The day after her 16th birthday, her friends, Chole and Harvey notice something off about her, after she comes home that day, she finds out that she is a witch, after news that Seth and Katie La More, Sabrina's arch rival, Sabrina uses her new powers so Seth starts to notice her, but not to cast a love spell.

After that, Sabrina uses her powers for a wide source of things, including perfect test scores, Making Harvey faster, help her win a track race and for Seth to take her out to the School Dance. After a little while, Katie starts to notice that Sabrina is a witch and tries to hunt her down, Harvey and Chloe try to warn her, but doesn't listen. Sabrina tries to turn Katie into a poodle but is unsuccessful and thus, is too late for an entire army track her. The ultimate battle between Sabrina and the army, with Harvey, Chloe and Seth. The pair is successful and Katie is later taken into custody. After that, Harvey reveals that he actually has a crush on Sabrina and Sabrina later admits that she has a crush of him, thus the two start dating and go out to the dance together.

Production
The Idea for a Sabrina animated Adventure dates back to early 2008 when director Disney's latest animated feature at the time Bolt co-Director Chris Williams expressed interest of bringing the Sabrina the Teenage Witch comic book series to live, it was revealed that Williams was so into the idea that he made sure it was going to happen. On January,16th,2009, it was announced that a CG Animated Reboot Film was in the works at Walt Disney Animation Studios with animation work begin a week later, on July,2nd,2009, it was announced that Disney was currently in the talks with Chole Grace Moretz for her to voice Sabrina Spellman in the movie and with Nick Jonas, who had his own Disney Channel show at the time to voice Harvey Hinkle, on June,4th,2010, the official cast of the planned reboot by Disney was announced with an official release date of November,2nd,2012, which that date was taken by Wreck-It-Ralph, With Moretz and Jonas playing their respective roles, On September,24th,2010, at Destination D, official artwork for the movie was shared, on January,4th,2011, the Movie was delayed to November,20th,2013, which the date was eventually taken by Frozen, not much had been said about the movie, until Febuary,21st,2012, when it was announced that the film had been delayed to July,11th,2014 before eventually being removed from the release schedule, On July,2nd,2016, the movie had been given a new release date for July,13th,2018, before eventually being scrapped on January, 21st,2017, Chris Williams said in a Twitter Post, "This is truly upsetting, our team has been working on this movie since the beginning of 2008 and now 9 years of hard work had been shelved like that, I feel the sorrow for all the fans out there.", a few month later, on July,18th,2017, it was announced that the rights to the movie was up for sale by Disney, The top bidders were Paramount Animation, Warner Animation Group, Universal Pictures and Sony Pictures Animation, On July,2nd,2018, it was announced that Universal Pictures  has won the bid and acquired the rights to the film, a few months following the acquisition, on October,17th,2018, it was announced that the movie was in redevelopment at DreamWorks Animation, and stated that, "We are working up a new story for the Sabrina Animated Movie that will be just as amazing as the original, we look forward to take this journey throughout the next few years to make sure it's awesome.",  on July,26th,2019, it was announced that Pierre Preifel will direct the movie along with the Bad Guys, On January,24th,2020, it was announced that Phil Lord and Chris Miller will be producing it, as well as an release date for October,28th,2022,Chris Williams responded to this announcement with this "Looks like all the work didn't go to waste after all, Congratulations to Mr.Preifel as well as Mr.Lord and Mr.Miller, I'm sure they will do an amazing job not much has been said throughout the rest of 2020 following the announcement, on September,3rd,2021, the films release date was pushed back to October,27th,2023, On December,21st,2021, The official cast, as well as announcing that Josh Peck and Miranda Cosgrove (Voices of  Harvey and Sabrina) will serve as executive producers, on April,19th,2022,

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