Disney to stream Freakier Friday sequel on Nov 12

Disney will add the sequel Freakier Friday to its streaming service on Wednesday, November 12, roughly 96 days after the film opened in theaters in August, the company announced. The followup reunites Jamie Lee Curtis and Lindsay Lohan as mother and daughter Tess and Anna Coleman in a multigenerational bodyswap comedy that sends the family’s identity chaos into the next generation.

Freakier Friday expands the original premise by making Anna a mother who soon becomes a stepmother. When bodies begin to swap across generations, Anna, her daughter Harper and a soon-to-be stepdaughter confront the practical and emotional consequences of the magical switch. The cast includes returning performers from the 2003 film and new additions such as Julia Butters, Sophia Hammons, Manny Jacinto and Maitreyi Ramakrishnan. Nisha Ganatra directed from a screenplay co-written by Jordan Weiss, with Jamie Lee Curtis serving among the producers.

The film opened Aug. 8 with an estimated North American weekend of about $28.5 million and went on to earn roughly $94 million domestically and about $153 million worldwide, on an estimated production budget in the low to mid 40 million dollar range. The...