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Magic Boy (少年猿飛佐助)
Magic Boy (少年猿飛佐助, Shōnen Sarutobi Sasuke) is a 1959 Toei Animation feature directed by Taiji Yabushita and Akira Daikuhara; Japan's first CinemaScope anime, Venice San Marco Lion winner, and MGM's 1961 US release.
Magic Camp (film)
Magic Camp is a 2020 Disney+ family comedy directed by Mark Waters, starring Adam Devine, Gillian Jacobs, and Jeffrey Tambor, about a struggling magician counseling kids at the Institute of Magic; distinct from the 2012 Tannen's documentary.
Magic circle
A magic circle, also called a sacred circle, is a ritually drawn boundary that defines protected, sacred space during a ritual, from ancient Mesopotamian exorcism to modern Wicca.
Magic Circle (law firms)
The Magic Circle is an informal label, coined by the legal press in the 1990s, for five leading London-based commercial law firms: A&O Shearman, Clifford Chance, Freshfields, Linklaters, and Slaughter and May.
Magic City (TV series)
Magic City (TV series): American Starz period drama created by Mitch Glazer, set in 1959 Miami Beach at the fictional Miramar Playa Hotel, starring Jeffrey Dean Morgan as Ike Evans and Danny Huston as mobster Ben Diamond; two seasons, 2012-2013.
Magic cookie
A magic cookie is a small piece of data passed between programs so the receiver can perform an operation without interpreting its contents; the web cookie descends from it.
Magic Cop (驱魔警察)
Magic Cop (驅魔警察, aka Mr. Vampire 5) is a 1990 Hong Kong supernatural action comedy directed by Stephen Tung Wai, starring Lam Ching-Ying as a Taoist ex-cop fighting a sorceress using reanimated corpses to smuggle drugs; it earned HK$3,645,216 in Hong Kong.
Magic Dirt
Magic Dirt is an Australian alternative rock band formed in Geelong, Victoria, in 1991. It won four ARIA Awards in 1995 and is known for the song "Dirty Jeans".
Magic Farm
Magic Farm is a 2025 comedy-drama directed and written by Amalia Ulman, starring Chloë Sevigny, Alex Wolff, Simon Rex, and Ulman; a Vice-like American film crew lands in the wrong Argentine town while profiling a bunny-suited musician, premiering at Sundance and Berlin 2025 and released by MUBI.
Magic for Humans
Magic for Humans is a Netflix reality-comedy series (2018–2020, 3 seasons, 19 episodes) starring magician Justin Willman, known for the goat yoga levitation, the invisible-man trick, and camera-trick authenticity debates.
Magic Funhouse!
Magic Funhouse! is a 2016–2017 American comedy-drama web series by YouTube creator Brandon Rogers on Fullscreen, about the adult behind-the-scenes lives of a children's TV show cast; 14 episodes, 2 seasons, cancelled when Fullscreen shut down.
Magic Hexagon
A magic hexagon is a hexagonal arrangement of numbers whose rows in all three directions share one sum, existing only for order 3 with rows totaling 38.
Magic Hour (2025 film)
Magic Hour is a 2025 American drama film directed by Katie Aselton, starring Aselton and Daveed Diggs. It premiered at SXSW on March 11, 2025, and was released theatrically in 2026.
Magic in Dungeons & Dragons
Magic in Dungeons & Dragons: the Vancian prepare-and-forget spell system from Jack Vance via Gary Gygax, spell slots, cantrips, rituals, concentration, the eight schools, arcane/divine traditions, edition history to the 2024 rules, and item rarity values.
Magic in Harry Potter
Magic in Harry Potter: the wand-and-incantation system of J.K. Rowling's wizarding world, also called the magic system of the Potterverse. Distinguished by the 1692 International Statute of Secrecy, Gamp's Law limits on conjuring food, and a 'firm' rule level between hard and soft fantasy magic.
Magic in the Moonlight
Magic in the Moonlight is Woody Allen's 2014 romantic comedy, also described as a 1920s Côte d'Azur period picture, starring Colin Firth as magician Stanley Crawford (Wei Ling Soo) and Emma Stone as medium Sophie Baker, released by Sony Pictures Classics.
Magic Johnson
Magic Johnson (Earvin Johnson Jr., born 1959, Lansing, Michigan), Lakers point guard 1979-1996, five NBA titles, three MVPs, rookie Finals MVP, 1991 HIV announcement, Hall of Famer and owner of Dodgers, Sparks, LAFC, and Commanders stakes.
Magic Kingdom
Magic Kingdom, the original theme park of Walt Disney World Resort in Florida, opened in 1971 and has been the world's most-visited theme park for decades.
Magic Knight Rayearth (魔法騎士レイアース)
Magic Knight Rayearth (魔法騎士レイアース), also Magic Knight Rayearth 2, is a CLAMP shōjo fantasy manga serialized in Nakayoshi 1993–1996 in six volumes, about three middle-school girls summoned to Cefiro; adapted as a 49-episode 1994 TMS anime and a new 2026 TV anime on TV Asahi.
Magic lantern
The magic lantern, also known as Huygens' lantern, is an image projector developed in the 17th century, with a working form by Christiaan Huygens by 1659.
Magic Leap
Magic Leap, Inc. is an American augmented reality company in Plantation, Florida, founded by Rony Abovitz, which released the Magic Leap One headset in 2018 and Magic Leap 2 in 2022.
Magic Maker
Magic Maker: How to Make Magic in Another World (マジック・メイカー ～異世界魔法の作り方～) is a Japanese isekai light novel series by Kazuki Kaburagi and Kururi about Shion, a reincarnated boy creating magic in a world without it; adapted into a 2025 Studio DEEN anime and Seven Seas manga and light novels.
Magic Metal Montana
Magic Metal Montana is a 2026 song by Charli xcx, track 10 on Music, Fashion, Film; a 2:31 guitar-driven tribute to producer A. G. Cook, produced by Cook and Finn Keane on Atlantic Records.
Magic Mike
Magic Mike is a 2012 American comedy-drama directed by Steven Soderbergh, starring Channing Tatum as a furniture designer who headlines a male strip revue in Tampa.
Magic Mike XXL
Magic Mike XXL, also known as Magic Mike 2, is a 2015 American comedy-drama in which Channing Tatum's retired stripper Mike rejoins the Kings of Tampa for a final show.
Magic Mike's Last Dance
Magic Mike's Last Dance (2023) is Steven Soderbergh's trilogy-closing comedy-drama starring Channing Tatum and Salma Hayek Pinault, in which broke stripper Mike Lane builds a London show, ending in a 30-minute dance finale.
Magic Mushrooms (film)
Magic Mushrooms (മാജിക് മഷ്റൂംസ്) is a 2026 Malayalam comedy-drama directed by Nadirshah, written by Akash Dev, starring Vishnu Unnikrishnan and Akshaya Udayakumar, released 23 January 2026, about mysterious mushrooms in Kanjikkuzhi village.
Magic number (physics)
A magic number in nuclear physics is a proton or neutron count, such as 2, 8, or 126, at which a nucleus is exceptionally stable.
Magic number (programming)
In programming, a magic number is either an unexplained constant in source code or a byte sequence, also called a magic byte, that identifies a file's format.
Magic Pengel: The Quest for Color
Magic Pengel: The Quest for Color (ガラクタ名作劇場 ラクガキ王国) is a 2002 Taito/Garakuta Studio PS2 RPG, published by Agetec in 2003, where players draw Doodle creatures that become 3D fighters in rock-paper-scissors battles; spiritual successor Graffiti Kingdom.