The Beetlejuice Beetlejuice Box office has grossed nearly double the original Tim Burton movie. Burton returns for the legacy sequel to his iconic horror comedy, which features the return of Michael Keaton as Betelgeuse, Winona Ryder as Lydia Dates, and Catherine O’Hara as Delia Dates in addition to re-teaming with director Mit Wednesday Starring Jenna Ortega. The Beetlejuice Beetlejuice The box office has big shoes to fill, as the original movie was the 10th highest-grossing movie of 1988 worldwide, grossing approximately $75 million.
Warner Bros. Discovery has reported that the worldwide opening weekend for Beetlejuice Beetlejuice Is Projected to reach a total of $145.4 million Until the end of Sunday. This comes from a total of $110 million at the domestic box office and another $35.4 million from 69 other territories, representing 75% of the film’s international business. The total means that the movie has nearly doubled the entire run of the 1988 original in the span of just three days.
Beetlejuice Beetlejuice is the number 1 movie worldwidedomestically and internationally this weekend, as well as in 40 individual international markets. The movie has yet to open in some key markets as well. Among the seven markets that open next week are France and Germany, and Japan is set to be the last market in which the film debuts, on September 27.
What this global debut means for Beetlejuice Beetlejuice
The legacy sequel is set to be a major hit
This sweeping global debut shows that the Beetlejuice Beetlejuice Release has a strong chance of becoming a major hit despite the fact that it comes with a large reported budget of $100 million, a significant increase from the original movie. Because a movie generally needs to earn back between two and two-and-a-half times its budget to make a profit, Its break-even point is likely somewhere around $250 million or more. However, the new release is already well on its way to ending up in the black, and then some.
However, the fact that the international sum is so much lower than the domestic debut of the movie shows that The movie is likely to perform much better in North America overall As in international markets. This is perhaps due to the fact that the era of Tim Burton movies to which the movie belongs, which includes the original Beetlejuice And his follow-up Edward Scissorhandsdidn’t get strong international releases at the time and probably didn’t have strong nostalgia bases overseas, meaning that demand for this kind of legacy sequel is much stronger in the movie’s home territory.
Our take on the Beetlejuice Beetlejuice global debut
The movie is a legacy sequel success
Even without the international grosses to match its domestic haul, the film’s global debut was so strong that it wouldn’t be a surprise if the Beetlejuice Beetlejuice Cast were set to reunite sooner rather than later for another installment. Although it remains to be seen, the movie has become the Tip: Gun Maverick from the horror-comedy realm, Performing miraculously well both commercially and critically (On Rotten Tomatoes it’s certified fresh with a 77% score) despite being the first follow-up to a movie that was released more than three and a half decades earlier.
Source: Warner Bros. Discovery