Walt Disney Animation Studios opens its next original film on November 25, 2026. The studio's official account reminded moviegoers on November 9 that Disney's Hexed opens in theaters on November 25 and that tickets are on sale now. The film stars Hailee Steinfeld as Billie, a teenager who learns she is a witch. Check out the official post down below:
Disney's official movie page lists Hexed as a PG-rated animated coming-of-age film. It is the studio's 65th animated feature, following Zootopia 2 in 2025, Moana 2 in 2024 and Wish in 2023 on Walt Disney Animation's list of films. In the UK, Disney is releasing it 2 days later, on November 27, exclusively in cinemas.
The Story Of Disney's Hexed
Disney's official synopsis describes Billie as an impulsive and unconventional teenage girl who discovers secret magical abilities, which hurtle her out of suburbia and into a vast witch world called Hexe. There she is forced to team up with her cautious mother, Alice, voiced by Rashida Jones, and the 2 of them uncover family mysteries that could change the world of witches forever.
The Disney+ guide to the film adds that Billie has always felt like she doesn't quite belong and is sent to Hexe after she is expelled for accidentally causing magical mayhem at her high school. The guide describes Hexe as a magical world filled with other witches like her, where Billie and Alice have to solve the family mysteries together. The movie page lists her full name as Billie Doe.
Disney's movie page carries 2 videos, the 2:24 official trailer and the 2:17 teaser. Here is the official trailer from Walt Disney Animation Studios:
The Hexed Voice Cast
Walton Goggins voices Beef Roger Crummchuk, a reclusive, magical 3-eyed cat who forms an uneasy alliance with Billie and Alice and acts as Billie's guide in Hexe. Jodie Foster plays the villain, Queen Celeste, whom Disney describes as a sinister figure who will stop at nothing to keep her power over Hexe. The role is the 2-time Academy Award winner's first voice performance for Disney Animation.
The Disney+ guide lists Steinfeld's earlier work as Marvel Studios' Hawkeye and Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse, while Jones voiced a role in Disney and Pixar's Inside Out and appeared in The Muppets in 2011. Goggins appeared in Marvel Studios' Ant-Man and the Wasp, and Foster's credits with the studio go back to Freaky Friday in 1977.
Disney's UK announcement added 2 more key roles. Henry Winkler voices Nigel, a skittish, all-knowing potoo bird, and Dan Stevens plays Hieronymous, Queen Celeste's blustering and self-important Grand Councillor of the Throne. Tracey Ullman voices the enchanted feather quill pen Ms. Quill, and Stephen Fry plays the magical journal Elias Quire. Ullman previously appeared in Disney's Into the Woods and voiced a role in Pixar's Onward, and Fry voiced the Cheshire Cat in 2010's Alice in Wonderland.
The rest of the cast listed on Disney's page includes:
- Brett Gelman
- Samson Kayo
- Jimmy O. Yang
- Ron Funches
- Drew (McIntyre) Galloway
- Cheri Oteri
- Kathy Najimy
- Wayne Knight
- Alan Tudyk
- Randall Park
- Bill Farmer
- Pat McAfee
- Chris Parnell
- Sarah-Nicole Robles
- Rachel Dratch
- Ariana Madix
- Kellie Gerardi
- Yvette Nicole Brown
- Abraham Benrubi
- Josh Dallas
Disney's UK press release from October billed Oteri, Najimy, Knight, Tudyk, Park, McAfee, Parnell, Dratch, Madix and Brown among the film's voice cameos, and it credits wrestler Drew McIntyre under his legal name, Drew Galloway.
The Music Of Hexed
Disney's UK press office announced in October that tickets for Hexed were on sale and that Steinfeld had recorded a new version of The Cars' hit song "Magic," which debuted 3 days after that announcement. Composer Kris Bowers wrote the film's original score.
Here is the studio's tickets on sale spot:
Who Is Making Hexed
Fawn Veerasunthorn, who co-directed Wish, and Jason Hand, a co-director of Moana 2, are directing the film, with Josie Trinidad of Zootopia+ as co-director. Roy Conli and Yvett Merino are producing, and the screenplay comes from Walt Disney Animation Studios chief creative officer Jared Bush and Dana Ledoux Miller.
The Disney+ guide also confirms that Hexed is a brand-new original story, not based on an earlier Disney Animation movie. Veerasunthorn and Hand presented it at the Annecy International Animation Film Festival in June 2026, where they showed select scenes from the film to the public for the first time.
Here is the teaser trailer that introduced the film:
The Lilo And Scratch Short
Hexed plays in theaters with Lilo & Scratch, a new short directed by Veerasunthorn and Malcon Pierce. It is the first project starring Stitch from Disney Animation since the original Lilo & Stitch in 2002, and Chris Sanders, who co-wrote and co-directed the 2002 film, returns as the voice of Stitch, with Maia Kealoha reprising Lilo from the 2025 live-action film.
In the short, Lilo introduces Scratch, a mischievous and mysterious cat, as the newest member of the family, and Stitch is left in charge of it while Lilo runs errands. Disney says it matches the look of the 2002 film and combines hand-drawn and CG animation with watercolor backgrounds. The short was first announced on "626 Day," named for Stitch's designation as Experiment 626, and Veerasunthorn and Pierce gave the Annecy crowd a sneak peek at it during the same presentation as Hexed.
When Hexed Comes To Disney Plus
Disney has confirmed that Hexed will stream on Disney+ after its theatrical run but has not announced a date. Walt Disney Animation's Frozen 3 is listed on Disney's official page for November 24, 2027.
The latest trailer and the full voice cast were covered in Disney's Hexed Unveils Magical New Trailer, Reveals More Of Its Star-Studded Voice Cast, and the newest Frozen 3 details were covered in Frozen 3 Teases Elsa's Powerful New Rival And An Answer To A Frozen 2 Cliffhanger.
Which member of the Hexed cast are you most looking forward to hearing: Jodie Foster as Queen Celeste, Walton Goggins as the 3-eyed cat or Henry Winkler as Nigel?
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