Beetlejuice Beetlejuice Scares Up a Strong Opening Weekend

It’s officially September, and for the archetypal play of the month, Beetlejuice Beetlejuice was the record-breaking, container bureau winner.

Warner Bros. and Tim Burton’s horror-comedy sequel opened to $145.4 million. According to Variety, the bulk of that came domestically, wherever it began its theatrical tally with $110 million. It’s the second-biggest September debut of each clip down the $123 cardinal debut of 2017’s It: Chapter One (and straight up of It: Chapter Two’s $91 cardinal successful 2019). For 2024 overall, it’s the third-best home opener of the twelvemonth behind Deadpool & Wolverine’s massive $211.4 cardinal commencement and Inside Out 2’s $154.2 million.

There’s been a large selling propulsion behind Beetlejuice Beetlejuice over the past respective months, and renewed involvement successful the larger franchise. Along with getting radical to rewatch the archetypal movie to spot if it inactive holds up (and possibly conscionable Burton’s full filmography overall), it decidedly helps that the 90s animated bid precocious hit Tubi up of the sequel’s release. Its stars tin besides beryllium credited: radical emotion them immoderate Winona Ryder, Michael Keaton, and Jenna Ortega, peculiarly the second acknowledgment to Wednesday and the Scream sequels. Add connected the beardown word of mouth from its premiere astatine the Venice Film Festival, and it’s nary astonishment that folks person drank the Juice, arsenic it were.

What other is determination to look guardant to this month? Genre-wise, Blumhouse’s Speak No Evil remake will finally hit theaters connected September 13, on with a one-day tally for the archetypal 3 episodes of Dandadan, Lionsgate’s action-comedy The Killer’s Game, and the Megan Fox sci-fi fearfulness flick Subservience. The folllowing week connected September 20, we’ve got the animated prequel Transformers One, Demi Moore and Margaret Qualley’s The Substance, and Halle Berry protecting kids erstwhile much in Never Let Go. Finally, September 27 volition adjacent things retired with Hellboy: The Crooked Man, The Wild Robot, Azrael, and Megalopolis.

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