Overview
- TheWrap reported exclusively on Thursday, October 22, 2026, that a fifth Halloweentown film is in early development for Disney Channel and Disney+ and the story was quickly corroborated by multiple outlets.
- Writers Lily Houghton and Ryan Koehn are attached to develop the script using characters created by original Halloweentown writer Paul Bernbaum.
- No plot details, release date, or casting decisions have been announced, so it remains unclear whether original leads such as Kimberly J. Brown or Sara Paxton will return.
- Coverage cites the franchise’s strong Disney+ performance — roughly 160 million hours streamed globally and the original film placing in last October’s top 10 Halloween titles — as a key reason Disney is pursuing a new entry.
- If greenlit, the project would join Disney’s pattern of reviving 1990s-era properties for streaming, and observers say the next signs to watch are casting announcements and whether the film will tie to the Cromwell family legacy given Debbie Reynolds’s death in 2016.