Beetlejuice Beetlejuice opens to $41mill domestically

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‘BEETLEJUICE 2’ earns $41.5M in the film’s domestic opening day.

It is the 3rd highest domestic opening of 2024.

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- DiscussingFilm (@DiscussingFilm) September 7, 2024
-Beetlejuice 2 has opened domestically to $41.5million making it the 3rd highest domestic opening of the year

Comments

[eisenberries]

100 million??? what the hell do they keep pumping so much budget into these movies for??? did they pay for everyone's ozempic???

[squirrels_oh_no]

They rebuilt sets in the same tiny town in Vermont where the first one was filmed where pretty much the only existing location was Lydia's school which was seen for 2 seconds.

[eisenberries]

oooh i respect that! maybe i'll give them some coin when i get a 2x1 promo at the theatre this week then

[squirrels_oh_no]

And instead of filming in California for interiors and stuff, they filmed in England. Idk if that saved anything or whatever. The afterlife got a giant expansion pack for the sequel, too.

[a_files06]

Is that $100mill worthy though?

[squirrels_oh_no]

I calculated the inflation and the first one was $40m in 2023 dollars so it wasn't as big of a stretch at least. And they had bigger set pieces this time and more cgi but everyone also probably got paid a lot more.

[masterofmystery]

i can imagine a bit of that went into burton, michael, winona and jenna's pockets. probably $30m total easily

plus all those extra sets and costumes definitely looked like they cost a pretty penny to put together (and cgi ain't cheap). production plus salaries definitely show on screen

[rihaty]

100 million doesn’t seem like a lot to me given that they did a lot by hand and I mean, that’s how much the first movie mad in the 80s