BEETLEJUICE BEETLEJUICE Knocks DEADPOOL & WOLVERINE Off Box Office Top Spot With Record-Breaking Debut

BEETLEJUICE BEETLEJUICE Knocks DEADPOOL & WOLVERINE Off Box Office Top Spot With Record-Breaking Debut

Beetlejuice Beetlejuice hit theaters on Friday, and Tim Burton's long-awaited sequel has already surpassed the lifetime gross of the original movie...

By MarkCassidy - Sep 08, 2024 03:09 PM EST
Filed Under: Horror
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The Juice has well and truly been set loose at the box office, as Tim Burton's long-awaited Beetlejuice sequel claims the No. 1 spot from Deadpool and Wolverine with a record-breaking domestic debut.

Beetlejuice Beetlejuice scared up an estimated $110 million in North America ($145M worldwide) to give it the 3rd biggest opening of 2024; 2nd biggest opening ever for Tim Burton; 2nd best September opening, and 2nd biggest opening ever for a horror film, surpassing Warner Bros.' It: Chapter 2.

This also means that the sequel has already surpassed the original movie's entire global gross ($74 million) after a single weekend in theaters.

Getting back to Marvel Studios' massively successful first foray into R-rated territory, and it looks like the movie is set to premiere on Digital platforms early next month (we're still waiting on an official announcement).

We're sure the studio will want a third film (we have to have Beetlejuice Beetlejuice Beetlejuice, right?), but Burton might take some convincing.

"Yeah, I mean, they talk, whatever, but if it follows the model now, I'd be making that one, I'd be over 100, and it's possible, but I don't know," Burton said during a recent press event (via /Film). "With medical science these days, I don't know. But no, I mean, like I said, for me, I wasn't really personally interested. If you said it to me, I would run the other direction. This is one where it was something that caught my thing. Now, would something else hit? I don't know. Not right now, because I'm still finishing this one, basically." 

Have you been to see the movie yet? If so, let us know what you thought in the comment section down below.

Beetlejuice is back! After an unexpected family tragedy, three generations of the Deetz family return home to Winter River. Still haunted by Beetlejuice, Lydia's life is turned upside down when her rebellious teenage daughter, Astrid, discovers the mysterious model of the town in the attic and the portal to the Afterlife is accidentally opened. With trouble brewing in both realms, it's only a matter of time until someone says Beetlejuice's name three times and the mischievous demon returns to unleash his very own brand of mayhem.

Burton, a genre unto himself, directs from a screenplay by Alfred Gough & Miles Millar (Wednesday), story by Gough & Millar and Seth Grahame-Smith (The LEGO Batman Movie), based on characters created by Michael McDowell & Larry Wilson. The film’s producers are Marc Toberoff, Dede Gardner, Jeremy Kleiner, Tommy Harper and Burton, with Sara Desmond, Katterli Frauenfelder, Gough, Millar, Brad Pitt, Larry Wilson, Laurence Senelick, Pete Chiappetta, Andrew Lary, Anthony Tittanegro, Grahame-Smith and David Katzenberg executive producing.

Burton’s creatives behind the scenes includes director of photography Haris Zambarloukos (Meg 2: The Trench, Murder on the Orient Express); such previous and frequent collaborators as production designer Mark Scruton (Wednesday), editor Jay Prychidny (Wednesday), Oscar-winning costume designer Colleen Atwood (Alice in Wonderland, Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street, Sleepy Hollow), Oscar-winning creature effects and special makeup FX creative supervisor Neal Scanlan (Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory), Oscar-nominated composer Danny Elfman (Big Fish, The Nightmare Before Christmas, Batman); and Oscar-winning hair and makeup designer Christine Blundell (Topsy-Turvy).

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cubrn
cubrn - 9/8/2024, 3:04 PM
I saw it last night and was pleasantly surprised by how good it was
ObserverIO
ObserverIO - 9/8/2024, 3:07 PM
I loved the ending.
BillyBatson1000
BillyBatson1000 - 9/8/2024, 3:14 PM
Now do a sequel to "Batman Returns".
SonOfAGif
SonOfAGif - 9/8/2024, 3:19 PM
@BillyBatson1000 - Should be Batman Beyond with Keaton but with Tim Burton returning.
cubrn
cubrn - 9/8/2024, 3:21 PM
@SonOfAGif - 100%
ObserverIO
ObserverIO - 9/8/2024, 3:40 PM
@SonOfAGif - As a creative producer maybe, but I don't think his style fits Batman Beyond. Needs to be more high octane and futuristic. More sci-fi less fantasy. It's cyberpunk basically.

🤞James Gunn puts a Batman Beyond into production with Michael Keaton as Old Man Bruce, whether as an Elseworlds or as a future set movie in the DCU.
McMurdo
McMurdo - 9/8/2024, 4:39 PM
@SonOfAGif - Burton would ruin Beyond
BillyBatson1000
BillyBatson1000 - 9/9/2024, 3:25 AM
@SonOfAGif - Just the idea of that has me salivating! (I'm changing my drool-cup).
dracula
dracula - 9/8/2024, 3:14 PM
How long before Beetlejuice, Beetlejuice, Beetlejuice

Or maybe dust off the script for Beetlejuice Goes Hawaii

Update it for the current cast, could be fun
SonOfAGif
SonOfAGif - 9/8/2024, 3:24 PM
@dracula - Beetlejuice Beetlejuice Beetlejuice should be about Delores and Rory escaping the Sandwormland and now that Rory is dead he gains some supernatural abilities and the two plot to unleash the undead onto the real world to expose the existence of the afterlife to get revenge on Lydia, Astrid, and Beetlejuice. Rory and Delores capture Lydia to lure Astrid into Astrid seeks the help of Beetlejuice in exchange for marriage if he can help her save Lydia and stop his Ex-Wife and Rory.
BlackStar25
BlackStar25 - 9/9/2024, 9:45 AM
@SonOfAGif -

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Rory sucks and they wasted Delores so I have no interest in seeing any of them...
Snow43214
Snow43214 - 9/8/2024, 3:15 PM
Great film

I would have thought Jenna Ortega would have been billed as supporting actress after Winona Ryder though
JFerguson
JFerguson - 9/8/2024, 3:35 PM
Nostalgia never fails
Gambito
Gambito - 9/9/2024, 5:01 AM
@JFerguson - except for Indiana Jones
SuperCat
SuperCat - 9/8/2024, 3:37 PM
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MarkCassidy
MarkCassidy - 9/8/2024, 3:51 PM
Glad most people seem to be enjoying this. I thought it was just ok, and I'm being generous there.
TheVandalore
TheVandalore - 9/8/2024, 7:12 PM
@MarkCassidy - I feel like I'm taking crazy pills. I thought just okay was being too generous. I thought it was a mess of a sequel and hardly even fun. It felt like a chore and completely unnecessary. And it even broke the established lore. Just.... Was not for me in the slightest.

I was expecting people to be harsher than me. The fact all of these comments are positive has me wondering if I saw the right movie.
MarkCassidy
MarkCassidy - 9/8/2024, 8:17 PM
@TheVandalore - it was entertaining enough and I loved seeing Keaton back in the role, but it was a mess from a script/story standpoint, and most surprisingly, really not very funny. I might have chuckled twice.
Nightmare
Nightmare - 9/8/2024, 9:34 PM
@MarkCassidy - I've heard some say this was better than the original. Stick people. Lots of pointless plotlines and characters.
SATW42
SATW42 - 9/8/2024, 10:06 PM
@TheVandalore - curious how it broke the lore in your opinion. While I’ll admit it wasn’t perfect (Monica beluccis character serves NO purpose when you really think about it, as an example) I think they stuck to their rules.

Also, cmon, it’s beetlejuice lol. The original is totally a 1980s coked out fever dream and this is just a fun revisiting. It ain’t that serious.
SATW42
SATW42 - 9/8/2024, 10:14 PM
@MarkCassidy - I think a big thing is that “mileage may vary” on certain aspects of the comedy. While the group I was with was laughing at everything that came out of Justin Theroux’s mouth, I can see audiences not connecting with that humor. I can also see people not liking beetlejuices shrunken head gang, but my kids and wife loved it. Add Michael keatons performance on top of loving Catherine O’Hara and Winona Ryder, and I got everything I wanted out of it. Oh jeez, I also really loved Willam dafoes character. The bit of him getting handed coffee right before delivering a cheesy line really landed for me.

But again, I can see how not all those pieces would connect for people.

And again, to be fair, Monica belluccis character was worthless. There was no point. The movie could’ve easily been beetlejuice still pining for Lydia, the Astrid plot, and dafoe going after them for breaking rules, and her character wouldn’t be missed. It wasn’t enough to ruin the movie for me though.
TheVandalore
TheVandalore - 9/10/2024, 2:20 AM
@SATW42 - no I feel you. But I also do subscribe to this loosey goosey mindset everyone seems to have of "come oooon, it's supposed to be fun so we shouldn't really be critical." I call bullshit on all that. If it's great, I have fun. I don't go into movies trying not to have fun, and I don't have to convince myself retroactively to give it a break because it's supposed to be fun. I can enjoy it while still calling it out when the writing is amateurish and plot points are whack and pull me out of the film.

These are the 3 lore breaks that I recall off hand but I know there are more.

1. You can't reveal proof of the dead without serious consequences. The fact that Delia and her childhood home are both world famous for ghosts breaks the rules established by Juno the case worker who explains the lore. In fact this movie would have been stream lined and made more sense if they cut out all the sub plots and new characters and made the film about Delia getting in trouble with the afterlife for trying to prove the afterlife exists to the world and what happened to her as a kid was all real, and Astrid has to call on Betelgeuse to save her after the Afterlife spills into the real world because of Delia. Would have cut out all the nonsense.

2. Suicide victims work at the Afterlife "DMV". Even a rule they reuse in the sequel with Danny Devito killing himself by drinking bleach and so on. But then why was Astrid's dad working there? Or are they implying he killed himself? That would be a dark twist. One I actually wish they had explored.

3. The Sand Worm dimension is a board meant to keep ghost confined to the space they haunt. Yet somehow there is an afterlife sub universe with laundromats that ghost now can travel freely around in without need of the Afterlife "DMV" brick travel system, and furthermore, any random door in the DMV can lead to the Sandworm dimension because.....??? rules are for losers!

There were many many more too, but some are genuinely just not picks, but a lot of these are lazy ass plot holes in a messy film that had needless sub plots and unnecessary crap like the entire Charles sub plot. How Adam and Barbra get only a mention while we get claymation pedophiles and a wandering torso for like a surprisingly large portion of the run time.

This movie genuinely frustrated me.
TheVandalore
TheVandalore - 9/10/2024, 2:26 AM
@MarkCassidy - yeah, the script absolutely baffled me when a more obvious story is... Well ... Obvious. The first film is a simple story. This film had WAAAAAY too much extra crap and the core story itself was crap.

You explain the first film and it sound like a really clever idea. You explain this film and you sound like a tweeker.
SATW42
SATW42 - 9/10/2024, 3:51 AM
@TheVandalore - I’m too tired to go point by point, but the afterlife logic was pretty loose in the original too. The football players seemingly never leave the afterlife, except to appear as ghosts to dance with Lydia. They died in a bus accident, not suicide. And if they aren’t working there or stuck there, then why do the maitlands have the ability to conjure random undead for dance parties?

You see how you can get twisted up in this? lol
TheVandalore
TheVandalore - 9/10/2024, 9:23 AM
@SATW42 - the football players didn't work there, they were passing through. There were tons of dead people in the afterlife but only suicide victims work there. "If I knew then what I know now, I would have had my little accident." These are all simple rules they coherently establish in the first for the purpose of helping give a structure we as the audience could follow in a situation otherwise meant to appear comedically confusing for the Maitland's. Juno explains the rule to Adam and Barbra so the audience knows that these are the guidelines and if they decide to go beyond them then they will get into trouble. Juno straight up tells the Maitland's they are being sloppy and can't give the living any proof of the afterlife. They wrote this stuff into the original script intentionally. I didn't set the parameters of this fictional universe, they did.

And as for the football players dancing at the end, well not only do the Maitland's live there and presumably are on good terms I'm with the afterlife having at that point defeated Betelgeuse and sent him to the DMV rather than letting him haunt the model, but Lydia is also a known paramedium in both films who interacts with spirits in a way other humans can't, so the football players being summoned for a dance number can be explained in universe even though they didn't take any time to explain it in the film itself. Plus that's such a tiny thing at the climax of the film, where my issues actually factor into the main plot of the entire film.
TheVandalore
TheVandalore - 9/10/2024, 9:31 AM
@SATW42 - but I should also acknowledge I see your points and they are valid from your perspective. We clearly just operate a little differently. It's cool, I can dig it. I don't mind being critical about everything I see because I don't see a need to take it easy on a film because it's a fun film. I can still enjoy it at a base fun level, then absolutely pick all the issues I had with it apart objectively without a need to pamper a film.
TheVandalore
TheVandalore - 9/10/2024, 9:33 AM
@SATW42 - I don't understand a point in coddling movies for any purpose.
HermanM
HermanM - 9/8/2024, 3:52 PM
It was fine
rkshuttleworth
rkshuttleworth - 9/8/2024, 3:59 PM
Is this movie a horror film? I don't think so.
RitoRevolto
RitoRevolto - 9/8/2024, 4:00 PM
I've never watched the first all the way through (only ever watched the animated show), but I wanna see this one lol.
grif
grif - 9/8/2024, 4:00 PM
not bad but looking at those foreign numbers this all depends on the north america numbers to be a hit or not
dragon316
dragon316 - 9/8/2024, 4:19 PM
See it this week if Deadpool is still up will support that again
bobevanz
bobevanz - 9/8/2024, 4:34 PM
I didn't hate it by any means. The problem was they tried to do too many things. Some worked really well, some didn't, other things were just to get certain characters in place at the end. I'd give it a 3.5. Beetlejuice scenes were hilarious. If you're a big fan of the original, there's definitely enough for you to enjoy.
Reginator
Reginator - 9/8/2024, 4:58 PM
I loved the first one. This one was boring and not funny at all. I was ready to leave half way in but the wife wanted to see it to the end. Pretty disappointing.
SATW42
SATW42 - 9/8/2024, 5:53 PM
Just a silly fun movie, that while being a legacy sequel, isn’t just a rehash, it is its own new story.

It’s definitely not a horror movie though
LSHF
LSHF - 9/8/2024, 9:12 PM
@SATW42 - I thought the first one was a comedy.
folieaturd
folieaturd - 9/8/2024, 6:05 PM
Nostalgia sells
IronMan616
IronMan616 - 9/8/2024, 6:19 PM
Already pre ordered the 4k steelbook with glow in the dark slipcover.
phoenixvici
phoenixvici - 9/8/2024, 6:27 PM
I 100% loved it and this is coming from someone whose seen the first one a dozen times over the years. I really want a third to cap it off as a trilogy, but only if Burton returns.
Quinn
Quinn - 9/8/2024, 8:48 PM
Loved it :)
Dressed up as Lydia when I watched it.
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