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===Critical response===
===Critical response===
{{Rotten Tomatoes prose|77|6.5|342|Michael Keaton's devious poltergeist still has plenty of juice left in this madcap return to form for Tim Burton, marrying charming practical effects and ghoulish gags to provide a fun fun time.|ref=yes|access-date=October 4, 2024}}{{cbignore}} {{Metacritic film prose|62|61|ref=yes|access-date=September 10, 2024}} Audiences polled by [[CinemaScore]] gave the film an average grade of "B+" on an A+ to F scale, up from the "B" earned by the first film, while those surveyed by [[PostTrak]] gave it an 81% overall positive score, with 68% saying they would definitely recommend it.<ref name="opening"/>
{{Rotten Tomatoes prose|77|6.5|343|Michael Keaton's devious poltergeist still has plenty of juice left in this madcap return to form for Tim Burton, marrying charming practical effects and ghoulish gags to provide a fun fun time.|ref=yes|access-date=October 4, 2024}}{{cbignore}} {{Metacritic film prose|62|61|ref=yes|access-date=September 10, 2024}} Audiences polled by [[CinemaScore]] gave the film an average grade of "B+" on an A+ to F scale, up from the "B" earned by the first film, while those surveyed by [[PostTrak]] gave it an 81% overall positive score, with 68% saying they would definitely recommend it.<ref name="opening"/>


[[Manohla Dargis]] of ''[[The New York Times]]'' called the film a "fun but less edgy sequel".<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2024/09/05/movies/beetlejuice-beetlejuice-review.html|title='Beetlejuice Beetlejuice' Review: Delightfully Undead Again|date=September 6, 2024|first=Manohla|last=Dargis|website=[[The New York Times]]|access-date=September 6, 2024|archive-date=September 6, 2024|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240906011425/https://www.nytimes.com/2024/09/05/movies/beetlejuice-beetlejuice-review.html|url-status=live}}</ref> Xan Brooks, writing for ''[[The Guardian]]'', stated, "Burton's game attempt to bring the 1980s horror-comedy back from the spirit world is full of gaudy set-pieces but fails to add much to the original."<ref>{{Cite news |last=Brooks |first=Xan |date=2024-08-28 |title=Beetlejuice Beetlejuice review – Tim Burton sequel takes retro joyride through old haunts |url=https://www.theguardian.com/film/article/2024/aug/28/beetlejuice-beetlejuice-review-venice-film-festival |access-date=2024-09-07 |work=The Guardian |language=en-GB |issn=0261-3077 |archive-date=September 9, 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240909193412/https://www.theguardian.com/film/article/2024/aug/28/beetlejuice-beetlejuice-review-venice-film-festival |url-status=live }}</ref> Margaret Roarty of ''The Film Magazine'' stated that "the filmmaker manages to create something just as wacky and weird and meaningful as the original film."<ref>{{Cite web |last=Roarty |first=Margaret |date=2024-09-09 |title=Beetlejuice Beetlejuice (2024) Review |url=https://www.thefilmagazine.com/beetlejuice-beetlejuice-2024-review/ |access-date=2024-09-11 |language=en}}</ref>
[[Manohla Dargis]] of ''[[The New York Times]]'' called the film a "fun but less edgy sequel".<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2024/09/05/movies/beetlejuice-beetlejuice-review.html|title='Beetlejuice Beetlejuice' Review: Delightfully Undead Again|date=September 6, 2024|first=Manohla|last=Dargis|website=[[The New York Times]]|access-date=September 6, 2024|archive-date=September 6, 2024|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240906011425/https://www.nytimes.com/2024/09/05/movies/beetlejuice-beetlejuice-review.html|url-status=live}}</ref> Xan Brooks, writing for ''[[The Guardian]]'', stated, "Burton's game attempt to bring the 1980s horror-comedy back from the spirit world is full of gaudy set-pieces but fails to add much to the original."<ref>{{Cite news |last=Brooks |first=Xan |date=2024-08-28 |title=Beetlejuice Beetlejuice review – Tim Burton sequel takes retro joyride through old haunts |url=https://www.theguardian.com/film/article/2024/aug/28/beetlejuice-beetlejuice-review-venice-film-festival |access-date=2024-09-07 |work=The Guardian |language=en-GB |issn=0261-3077 |archive-date=September 9, 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240909193412/https://www.theguardian.com/film/article/2024/aug/28/beetlejuice-beetlejuice-review-venice-film-festival |url-status=live }}</ref> Margaret Roarty of ''The Film Magazine'' stated that "the filmmaker manages to create something just as wacky and weird and meaningful as the original film."<ref>{{Cite web |last=Roarty |first=Margaret |date=2024-09-09 |title=Beetlejuice Beetlejuice (2024) Review |url=https://www.thefilmagazine.com/beetlejuice-beetlejuice-2024-review/ |access-date=2024-09-11 |language=en}}</ref>

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Beetlejuice Beetlejuice
Theatrical release poster
Directed byTim Burton
Screenplay by
Story by
Based on
Characters
by
Produced by
Starring
CinematographyHaris Zambarloukos
Edited byJay Prychidny
Music byDanny Elfman
Production
companies
Distributed byWarner Bros. Pictures
Release dates
  • August 28, 2024 (2024-08-28) (Venice)
  • September 6, 2024 (2024-09-06) (United States)
Running time
104 minutes[1]
CountryUnited States
LanguageEnglish
Budget$100 million[2][3]
Box office$377.8 million[4][5]

Beetlejuice Beetlejuice is a 2024 American dark fantasy comedy horror film directed by Tim Burton from a screenplay by Alfred Gough and Miles Millar. A sequel to Beetlejuice (1988) and the second film of the Beetlejuice franchise, the film stars Michael Keaton, Winona Ryder, and Catherine O'Hara reprising their roles alongside new cast members Justin Theroux, Monica Bellucci, Jenna Ortega, and Willem Dafoe. Set more than three decades after the first Beetlejuice, it follows Lydia Deetz, now a mother, struggling to keep her family together in the wake of a loss as the specter Betelgeuse[a] returns to haunt her.

After the success of Beetlejuice, plans for a sequel were announced by The Geffen Film Company, its original producers. Little materialized until 2011 when Warner Bros. Pictures hired Seth Grahame-Smith to pitch a story, which went through numerous revisions before being shelved in late 2019. Plans for a sequel were revived in early 2022, with Burton set to co-produce with Brad Pitt's studio Plan B Entertainment. After the casting process finished in early 2023, principal photography, supervised by cinematographer Haris Zambarloukos, took place in parts of England and the U.S. from May to November, despite being suspended for four months due to the 2023 actors' strike. The official title was revealed in February 2024. During post-production, editing was handled by Jay Prychidny and the musical score was composed by longtime Burton collaborator Danny Elfman.

Beetlejuice Beetlejuice opened the 81st Venice International Film Festival on August 28, 2024,[6] and was theatrically released overseas on September 4, 2024, and in the United States by Warner Bros. Pictures two days later. The film has received generally positive reviews from critics and has grossed $377 million worldwide against an estimated $100 million budget.

Plot

In 2024, Lydia Deetz hosts the supernatural TV talk show, Ghost House. She has been estranged from her daughter, Astrid, since Lydia's former husband and Astrid's father, Richard, died while in the Amazon. While taping an episode, Lydia hallucinates seeing Betelgeuse, the ghost who tried to marry her thirty-six years earlier,[b] in the audience.

Shortly after, Lydia's stepmother, Delia, informs Lydia that her father, Charles, has died in a gruesome accident. They and Astrid travel to Winter River, Connecticut, for Charles' funeral. At the wake, Rory, Lydia's boyfriend and producer, pressures her to marry him on Halloween; she hesitantly agrees. Meanwhile, Astrid meets a local boy named Jeremy Frazier, who invites her to spend Halloween with him.

In the afterlife, Betelgeuse oversees an office of "bio-exorcists", assisted by Bob, an anxious shrunken-head ghost. Betelgeuse is still obsessed with Lydia. Former actor-turned-ghost detective Wolf Jackson warns Betelgeuse that his former wife, Delores, has escaped captivity and gone on a murderous spree, draining the souls of the dead in search of him. Betelgeuse met her during the Black Plague in Italy, but Delores was a cult member who poisoned him as part of an immortality ritual; he murdered her before he succumbed.

Astrid discovers she has inherited her mother's psychic abilities and realizes Jeremy is a ghost; he asks her to accompany him to the afterlife to help regain his life. In exchange, she can meet her father's spirit. Meanwhile, Lydia learns from a realtor that Jeremy murdered his parents twenty-three years earlier, and died when the police tried to arrest him. Lydia reluctantly summons Betelgeuse and signs a marriage contract in exchange for him taking her to the afterlife to save Astrid. Betelgeuse blows open a hole between the Living and the Dead, allowing his staff to escape into the mortal world; he disguises Bob as himself as a decoy. Wolf discovers Betelgeuse has brought a living person into the afterlife and launches a manhunt for him, capturing the disguised Bob. Delores happens upon Bob at the police station while continuing her search for Betelgeuse, and she drains Bob’s soul.

As Betelgeuse and Lydia search for Astrid, Jeremy escorts her through the afterlife's bureaucracy. He admits tricking Astrid into exchanging her life for his. Astrid is taken to the "Soul Train" to be sent to the Great Beyond, but her father, Richard, spots and follows her. Lydia pulls Astrid off the Soul Train. They escape through a portal to Saturn's moon Titan, where Richard saves them from a sandworm. While Betelgeuse sends Jeremy to Hell, Richard shows Lydia and Astrid how to return to the living world. Meanwhile, during a mourning ceremony for Charles, Delia is bitten by two venomous asps that she was assured were defanged. She arrives in the afterlife and summons Betelgeuse to help find Charles; he agrees if Delia will help him find Lydia.

Lydia and Astrid arrive at the church for Lydia and Rory's wedding. Betelgeuse appears with Delia and interrupts the ceremony. Betelgeuse uses a "truth serum" that forces Rory to admit he is using Lydia for her money. Betelgeuse prepares to marry her when Delores arrives seeking revenge. Wolf arrives but Betelgeuse freezes him and his comrades to avoid arrest and continue the wedding. Astrid opens a portal to summon the sandworm from Titan and Betelgeuse leads it to devour Delores and Rory. However, Astrid reveals that because Betelgeuse illegally brought Lydia into the afterlife, their marriage contract is void. Lydia recites Betelgeuse's name three times and banishes him back to the afterlife. Delia returns to the afterlife with Wolf. She is reunited with Charles' spirit as he is about to board the Soul Train to the Great Beyond.

As everything returns to normal, Lydia ends her Ghost House show to spend more time with Astrid. But Lydia has recurring nightmares about Betelgeuse.

Cast

The cast and crew of Beetlejuice Beetlejuice at the 81st Venice International Film Festival
  • Michael Keaton as Betelgeuse (pronounced "Beetlejuice"), an afterlife ghost and "bio-exorcist" who wants to marry someone from the realm of the living. Both Keaton and director Tim Burton opted to keep the character as politically incorrect as he was in the original film due to their love for that character trait, with Burton deeming Betelgeuse as a character whose whole point is that he does not undergo any character arc or development, never evolving.[7]
  • Winona Ryder as Lydia Deetz, the former gothic teenager who was almost forced to marry Betelgeuse, now mother of Astrid Deetz and hostess of the Ghost House with Lydia Deetz show. Ryder initially imagined her character would live as a spinster in the Maitland residence's attic, but appreciated the development of her character, particularly around her relationship with daughter Astrid.[8]
  • Catherine O'Hara as Delia Deetz, Lydia's stepmother, Astrid's stepgrandmother and Charles Deetz's widow, now the hostess of a real art show located in a Soho gallery.[8]
  • Jenna Ortega as Astrid Deetz, Lydia's teenage daughter and Delia's step-granddaughter.[9][10][11]
  • Justin Theroux as Rory, Lydia's current boyfriend and a television producer.[8][12] Rory was inspired by Otho, Delia Deetz's interior design and exorcist friend played by the late Glenn Shadix in the original film. Writers Alfred Gough and Miles Millar devised him as a character who everyone wanted to see getting his comeuppance, like Otho, and enjoying the idea of Lydia being in a weird codependent relationship which everyone sees that way, herself included. Gough and Millar wanted the audience to understand why Rory is with Lydia and that he was a "schmuck", but they felt that they needed to find Rory's humanity without him being a mere punchline. Once Theroux was cast and connected with the writers over Zoom, he provided Gough and Millar with ideas they incorporated.[13]
  • Monica Bellucci as Delores, Betelgeuse's ex-wife who, in life, was a mysterious soul-sucking witch who poisoned Betelgeuse several centuries earlier during the Black Plague before he killed her with an axe in retaliation.
  • Willem Dafoe as Wolf Jackson, a ghost detective who, in life, was a B movie action star.[14]
  • Arthur Conti as Jeremy Frazier, an undead teenage murderer who is Astrid's brief love interest.[15][16]
  • Santiago Cabrera as Richard, Astrid's late father and Lydia's former husband who disappeared in Brazil's Amazonas.
  • Burn Gorman as Father Damien, a reverend in Winter River.[17]
  • Amy Nuttall as local real estate agent Jane Butterfield Jr., the daughter of the first film's Jane Butterfield Sr., portrayed in the previous film by Annie McEnroe.
  • Danny DeVito as an afterlife janitor whose soul was consumed by Delores.
  • Nick Kellington as Bob, a zombie who is considered a "shrinker" and Betelgeuse's lead worker.
  • Mark Heenhan (physical) and Charlie Hopkinson (voice) as Charles Deetz, Lydia's father and Delia's deceased husband who was decapitated by a shark, hence why he goes to the afterlife without his upper half. The character is depicted with the likeness of original actor Jeffrey Jones through various means, including archival photos, paintings and an animated stop-motion sequence that describes the character's death.[18][19][20] The character's death was inspired by a nightmare of Burton's about his own death.[21]

Jane Leaney and David Ayres portray Mrs. and Mr. Frazier, Jeremy's murdered parents. Georgina Beedle portrays Janet, Wolf Jackson's secretary who "keeps him real", while Filipe Cates portrays Vlad, a young man dressed as a vampire who marries Astrid in Lydia's dream.

Production

Development

After the success of Beetlejuice (1988), a sequel was fast-tracked by The Geffen Film Company. Two Beetlejuice sequel scripts were commissioned in 1990: the first, Beetlejuice in Love, was penned by screenwriter Warren Skaaren, who did a heavy re-write on the first film's script. In Skaaren's sequel, Betelgeuse meets Leo, who tragically plummets to his death while proposing to his girlfriend, Julia, on the Eiffel Tower. When Leo enters the afterlife, Betelgeuse escapes to the world of the living and pursues Julia. Skaaren died shortly after turning in his first draft of the In Love script.[22] That same year, Tim Burton hired Jonathan Gems to write a potential Beetlejuice sequel titled Beetlejuice Goes Hawaiian.[23] "Tim thought it would be funny to match the surfing backdrop of a beach movie with some sort of German Expressionism, because they're totally wrong together", Gems said.[24] The story followed the Deetz family moving to Hawaii, where Charles is developing a resort. They soon discover that his company is building on the burial ground of an ancient Hawaiian Kahuna. The spirit comes back from the afterlife to cause trouble, and Betelgeuse becomes a hero by winning a surf contest with magic. Michael Keaton and Winona Ryder agreed to do the film, on the condition that Burton directed, but both he and Keaton became occupied with Batman Returns (1992).[24]

Burton was still interested in Beetlejuice Goes Hawaiian in early 1991. Impressed with Daniel Waters' work on Heathers (1989), which also stars Winona Ryder, Burton approached him for a rewrite. However, he eventually signed Waters to write the script for Batman Returns.[25] By August 1993, producer David Geffen hired Pamela Norris (Troop Beverly Hills, Saturday Night Live) to rewrite.[26] Warner Bros. approached Kevin Smith in 1996 to rewrite the script, although Smith turned down the offer in favor of Superman Lives. Smith later joked that his response was, "Didn't we say all we needed to say in the first Beetlejuice? Must we go tropical?"[27] In March 1997, Gems released a statement saying, "The Beetlejuice Goes Hawaiian script is still owned by The Geffen Company and it will likely never get made. You really couldn't do it now anyway. Winona is too old for the role, and the only way they could make it would be to totally recast it."[24] Burton had considered several other sequel ideas as well over the years, saying in 2024, "We talked about lots of different things. That was early on when we were going, Beetlejuice and the Haunted Mansion, Beetlejuice Goes West, whatever. Lots of things came up",[28] but all those initial scenarios set in Hawaii, the Wild West or Paris, France were all scrapped.[29]

In September 2011, Warner Bros. hired Seth Grahame-Smith, who collaborated with Burton on Dark Shadows and Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter (both 2012), to write and produce a sequel to Beetlejuice.[30] Grahame-Smith signed on with the intention of doing "a story that is worthy of us actually doing this for real, something that is not just about cashing in, is not just about forcing a remake or a reboot down someone's throat". He was also adamant that Keaton would return and that Warner Bros. would not recast the role. Burton and Keaton had not officially signed on but would return if the script was good enough.[31] Grahame-Smith met with Keaton in February 2012, "We talked for a couple of hours and talked about big picture stuff. It's a priority for Warner Bros. It's a priority for Tim. [Michael's] been wanting to do it for 20 years and he'll talk to anybody about it who will listen."[32]

I don't wanna be the guy that destroys the legacy and the memory of the first film, I would rather die. I would rather just not make it, I'd rather just throw the whole thing away than make something that pays no respect and doesn't live up even close to the legacy of the first film. The story would be set in a real time frame from 1988. This will be a true 26 or 27 years later sequel. What's great is that for Beetlejuice [sic], time means nothing in the afterlife, but the world outside is a different story.

—Seth Grahame-Smith (writer)[33]

In November 2013, Ryder hinted at a possible return for the sequel as well by saying, "I'm kind of sworn to secrecy but it sounds like it might be happening. It's 27 years later. And I have to say, I love Lydia Deetz so much. She was such a huge part of me. I would be really interested in what she is doing 27 years later." Ryder confirmed that she would only consider making a sequel if Burton and Keaton were involved.[34] In December 2014, Burton stated, "It's a character that I love and I miss actually working with Michael. There's only one Betelgeuse. We're working on a script and I think it's probably closer than ever and I'd love to work with him again."[35] In January 2015, writer Grahame-Smith told Entertainment Weekly that the script was finished and that he and Burton intended to start filming Beetlejuice 2 by the end of the year, and that both Keaton and Ryder would return in their respective roles.[36]

While negotiating to join the Netflix show Stranger Things as Joyce Byers in mid-2015, Ryder accepted that role under the sole request to the Duffer Brothers that if a Beetlejuice sequel ever got greenlighted, they would let her take a break from the series to film it, as she and Burton had been having conversations about the project since 2000; the Duffers agreed.[37] In August 2015, on Late Night with Seth Meyers, Ryder confirmed she would be reprising her role in the sequel.[38] In May 2016, Burton stated, "It's something that I really would like to do in the right circumstances, but it's one of those films where it has to be right. It's not a kind of a movie that cries out [for a sequel], it's not the Beetlejuice trilogy. So it's something that if the elements are right—because I do love the character and Michael's amazing as that character, so yeah we'll see. But there's nothing concrete yet."[39] In October 2017, Mike Vukadinovich was hired to re-write the script.[40] In April 2019, Warner Bros. stated the sequel had been shelved.[41]

Pre-production

In February 2022, a sequel was announced again, this time produced by Brad Pitt's studio Plan B Entertainment, alongside Warner Bros.[42] Burton stated in October 2022 that he was not involved in the project, but backtracked days later, saying "nothing is out of the question".[43] Burton ultimately returned as the film's director and tried to strip everything from the story to go to the basics of working with "good people, actors and puppets", feeling that the project made him reflect why he liked making movies.[44] Burton came up with the film's story upon thinking about Lydia Deetz, a character of his with whom he connected as a teenager, wondering what could have been of her life after the first film's events and how her family life could have developed, turning from a "cool teenager" into a "f—ed-up adult" who hosts a popular medium-related show titled Ghost House with Lydia Deetz whose daughter hates her, Burton credited the years of his life since the original film's release as the reason he couldn't do Beetlejuice Beetlejuice until then, having experienced many of those things himself, finding the project a very personal movie starring a weird family in a family-friendly and emotional story of three generations experiencing basic things everyone feels in life when growing up.[29] Burton and Keaton agreed to not use excessive amounts of technology, and sought to make the film feel "handmade".[45] With a plot likened to Willy Wonka's psychedelic boat ride in Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory (1971), which takes "very big swings" like unhinged and uncontrollable phantasmagoria and Burton's head being "dumped out" onto the screen, Keaton felt the film's story to be stronger than its predecessor's, with "more of a connection" to the audience in terms of characters, finding "beyond delightful" things he wasn't ready for while Ryder confidently expressed her belief that the film exceeded her high expectations and expected every generation to find something they can appreciate from the film.[46]

In March 2023, it was reported by Variety that Jenna Ortega, who previously worked with Burton on the 2022 Netflix series Wednesday, was in talks to play Astrid Deetz,[10] Lydia's daughter,[47][48] while Burton was now expected to direct the film.[49] Ortega and Ryder bonded as they worked together, sharing hobbies such as both being cinephiles and regarding the experience of working with each other special, resulting in Ortega developing her own performance for Astrid.[50] In May, Danny Elfman announced he was returning to compose the score for the sequel, while it was also revealed Ortega was confirmed to star, and Wednesday creators Alfred Gough and Miles Millar wrote the script.[51] Justin Theroux, Burn Gorman, Arthur Conti, Filipe Cates, and Willem Dafoe would also be added to the cast, in undisclosed roles, with Dafoe's being described as an afterlife officer.[9][15][16][17][52] Dafoe later explained to Variety at the Marrakesh Film Festival that his character is an afterlife police officer who used to be a B movie action star in life before dying in an accident, with his skills leading him to become a detective within the realm.[14] He later regretted sharing those details about his character, fearing that Burton may get angry with him for revealing a few spoilers from the film.[53] Conti auditioned for the role over a Zoom call with Burton and a chemistry test with Ortega, receiving the news that he got the part on April Fools' Day, leading him to initially dismiss it as a practical joke.[54] Catherine O'Hara reprises her role as Delia Deetz, as well as Monica Bellucci joining the cast as Betelgeuse's wife Delores.[55] Gough didn't originally write Delores' first victim, a deceased janitor, with an actor in mind, so Burton called his frequent collaborator Danny DeVito for the role and DeVito accepted it.[13]

Colleen Atwood, a frequent collaborator of Burton, was announced to be working on the costume design for the film.[56] Atwood disclosed that Betelgeuse's striped suit would return in the film, as it is trademark to the character's quintessential appearance in the same way the titular character of Lewis Carroll's novel Alice's Adventures in Wonderland (1865) sports an iconic blue dress, although Keaton disagreed and preferred Betelgeuse's burgundy tuxedo.[57] O'Hara later confirmed that the film would include Harry Belafonte's 1955 song "Day-O (The Banana Boat Song)", which was featured in the first film.[58] The writers decided that the wedding sequence would feature a musical number with Betelgeuse "being the crazy ringleader of that whole situation", but were unsure of what song to use, and Burton suggested "MacArthur Park", which Gough found to be "the crazy, weird, insane thing you need at the end of this movie".[13] Keaton insisted that Betelgeuse had limited screen time in the film like the first movie, saying, "The idea was, no, no, no, you can't load it up with Betelgeuse, that'll kill it, the Betelgeuse character doesn't drive the story as much as he did in the first one. He's more part of the storyline in this one as opposed to the first one, which is a case of, this thing comes in and drives the movie a little bit."[59]

Filming

Filming was originally scheduled to begin in mid-2022.[60][61] Later, it was delayed to an expected start date of May 10, 2023, taking place in London if the 2023 WGA strike did not lead to another delay in production.[62][63] Production was officially confirmed to have begun the following day,[15] with Haris Zambarloukos serving as cinematographer[64] and Jay Prychidny serving as editor.[65] On May 18, 2023, it was reported that filming was taking place around the Princess Helena College in Preston, Hertfordshire, England.[66][67] Exterior filming took place in East Corinth, Vermont (the location of the original movie's outdoor scenes), in mid-2023.[68] Filming was suspended in July due to the 2023 SAG-AFTRA strike.[69] Burton described the film, which he enjoyed making, as being "99% done".[44] It had two days of production left, which was interrupted, with Ortega being contacted to continue filming four days after the strike had ended.[70] Filming resumed on November 16, 2023, in Melrose, Massachusetts,[71] and wrapped in Vermont on November 30, 2023.[72]

Post-production

By March 2024, Keaton had seen a completed rough cut of the film and stated that further editing would occur thereafter.[73] Later that month, it was stated in The Hollywood Reporter that Jeffrey Jones would not reprise his role as Charles Deetz in the film, his character being revealed in the trailers to have been killed off.[74] In April, Geena Davis stated she would not be returning as Barbara Maitland due to her age, saying, "Our characters were stuck the way they looked when they died forever, so it's been a while, it's been a minute."[75] In August, Burton would confirm via People that Davis and Alec Baldwin didn't return for Beetlejuice Beetlejuice as the Maitlands weren't needed for the story he wanted to tell, which he admitted that he personally couldn't have done in 1989 due to it focusing on three generations within the Deetz family. To explain their absence, Burton stated that the film would reveal the Maitlands used a loophole to leave their former house during the interim between this film and the original.[76] Gough told Entertainment Weekly that an early draft for the film had the Maitlands making a cameo appearance at the end, he and Millar discussing the idea with Burton, but all three moved on from the concept as they felt no de-aging technology would be convincing enough to make the audience believe that Davis and Baldwin hadn't aged since 1988. Also, they felt that the Maitland couple's story had been told and their appearance would clash with Burton's decision to not make any fan service.[77] Production VFX supervisor is Angus Bickerton, working with VFX producer Alex Bicknell, supported by visual effects studios Framestore, One of Us and BUF.[78][79]

Music

Main article: Beetlejuice Beetlejuice (soundtrack)

Danny Elfman, who scored Beetlejuice, returned for the sequel.[80] The soundtrack to the film featured licensed music being incorporated in the film as well as two cues from Elfman's score being included.[81] A cover of "Day-O (The Banana Boat Song)" is performed by Alfie Davis and the Sylvia Young Theatre School Choir and was released on May 23, 2024.[82] The 11-song soundtrack was released by WaterTower Music on August 30, 2024, and a vinyl edition is set to be released by Waxwork Records.[83][84]

Release

Beetlejuice Beetlejuice opened the 81st Venice International Film Festival on August 28, 2024, at the Sala Grande in a non-competitive slot.[6] The film was theatrically released by Warner Bros. Pictures on September 6, 2024, including IMAX, 4DX and ScreenX engagements.[85] Warner Bros.' former regime considered releasing the film straight to streaming on Max, but Burton butted heads with the studio over the film's costs and distribution; Warner was unsure on spending a projected $147 million on a sequel to a 1980s film from Burton, who hadn't had a hit since Alice in Wonderland (2010). Burton's demands were granted once Warner Bros. Motion Picture Group co-chairs and CEOs Michael De Luca and Pamela Abdy were installed in their positions in 2022, who agreed to a major theatrical release if the budget was under $100 million; Burton reportedly spent $99 million, thus fulfilling the deal.[86] Initially, the film was supposed to be delayed to 2025, because of the 2023 SAG-AFTRA strike, despite most of the production having been completed.[87] However, in February 2024, the producers reiterated the release date as well as revealing the official title.[88][89][90] At their 2024 CineEurope presentation, Warner Bros. announced that the film would be released overseas on September 4, 2024, two days before its domestic premiere.[91]

Home media

Beetlejuice Beetlejuice will be released in 4K Ultra HD to video-on-demand platforms on October 8, 2024, with DVD, Blu-ray and 4K Ultra HD (Steelbook) to follow November 19, 2024.[92]

Reception

Box office

As of October 2, 2024, Beetlejuice Beetlejuice has grossed $254 million in the United States and Canada, and $123.8 million in other territories, for a worldwide total of $377.8 million.[4][5]

In the United States and Canada, Beetlejuice Beetlejuice was released alongside The Front Room and was projected to gross $100–110 million from 4,200 theaters in its opening weekend.[93] The film made $42 million on its first day, including $13 million from Thursday night previews.[94][95] The film went on to debut with $111 million, registering the second biggest opening of September (behind It), the second biggest for Burton's career (behind Alice in Wonderland), and the third biggest opening of the year (behind Deadpool & Wolverine and Inside Out 2). Around 7.7 million admissions, 73% of the total weekend's box office earnings, came from the film alone.[96] The opening weekend gross surpassed the entire $74 million run of the original film, unadjusted for inflation.[97] The film then grossed $51.6 million in its second weekend (a drop of 54%),[98] and $25.9 million its third weekend (a drop of 49%), beating newcomers Speak No Evil and Transformers One, and finishing in first for three consecutive weeks.[99][100][101] It was eventually dethroned by The Wild Robot in its fourth weekend, grossing $16 million.[102]

Internationally, the film debuted with $36.2 million from 69 markets. It had the biggest openings in the UK ($9.6 million), Mexico ($6.5 million), Australia ($2.6 million), Spain ($2.5 million) and Italy ($1.7 million).[103]

Critical response

On the review aggregator website Rotten Tomatoes, 77% of 343 critics' reviews are positive, with an average rating of 6.5/10. The website's consensus reads: "Michael Keaton's devious poltergeist still has plenty of juice left in this madcap return to form for Tim Burton, marrying charming practical effects and ghoulish gags to provide a fun fun time."[104] Metacritic, which uses a weighted average, assigned the film a score of 62 out of 100, based on 61 critics, indicating "generally favorable" reviews.[105] Audiences polled by CinemaScore gave the film an average grade of "B+" on an A+ to F scale, up from the "B" earned by the first film, while those surveyed by PostTrak gave it an 81% overall positive score, with 68% saying they would definitely recommend it.[95]

Manohla Dargis of The New York Times called the film a "fun but less edgy sequel".[106] Xan Brooks, writing for The Guardian, stated, "Burton's game attempt to bring the 1980s horror-comedy back from the spirit world is full of gaudy set-pieces but fails to add much to the original."[107] Margaret Roarty of The Film Magazine stated that "the filmmaker manages to create something just as wacky and weird and meaningful as the original film."[108]

Future

When asked about a potential third film, Burton said, "Let's do the math... it took 35 years to do this, so I'll be over 100. But I guess it's possible with the advent of science these days, but I don't think so."[109]

Notes

  1. ^ The title character is variously spelled "Betelgeuse", "Beetle Juice", and "Beetlejuice" in the film, script, and credits. The "Betelgeuse" spelling is used throughout this article for consistency.
  2. ^ As depicted in Beetlejuice (1988).

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