Press release - Movies

June 18, 2020

Upside-Down Magic: Fact Sheet

FACT SHEET

Title: “Upside-Down Magic”

Premiere:Friday, July 31, at 8:00 p.m. PDT/EDT on Disney Channel

Synopsis: In this Disney Channel Original Movie, 13-year-old Nory Boxwood Horace discovers she can flux into animals, and her best friend Reina Carvajal can manipulate flames. Together, they enter the Sage Academy for Magical Studies. Reina’s expert ability to harness the power of fire lands her at the top of her class of “Flares,” but Nory’s wonky magic and proclivity for turning into a “Dritten”—a half-kitten, half-dragon—lands her in a class for those with upside-down magic, otherwise known as UDM. While Headmaster Knightslinger believes the UDM’s unconventional powers leave them vulnerable to dangerous and evil “shadow magic,” Nory and her fellow UDM classmates set out to prove that upside-down magic beats right-side up.

Cast: Izabela Rose as Nory Boxwood Horace

Siena Agudong as Reina Carvajal

Kyle Howard as Budd Skriff

Max Torina as Andres Padillo

Elie Samouhi as Elliot Cohen

Alison Fernandez as Pepper Paloma

Vicki Lewis as Headmaster Knightslinger

Yasmeen Fletcher as Chandra

Callum Seagram Airlie as Phillip

Cynthia McWilliams as Professor Argon

Elaine Hao as Professor Han

Amitai Marmorstein as Professor Lewis

Director: Joe Nussbaum

Executive Producers: Joe Nussbaum, Suzanne Farwell and Susan Cartsonis

Written by: Nick Pustay and Josh Cagan

Production Designer: Bill Boes

Director of Photography: Adam Santelli

Costume Designer: Barbara Somerville

Production Company: Bad Angels Productions, Ltd.

Parental Guideline: TV-G

Press Contacts: Michelle Marron

(818) 973-2164

michelle.s.marron@disney.com

Chrissy Woo

(818) 569-7884

chrissy.woo@disney.com

Julie Mitchell

(818) 569-5993

julie.m.mitchell@disney.com