The long wait of 36 years Tim Burton To put things together for the 1986 sequel. Beetlejuice The film was worth it for many fans, and it has already broken the director's career record. After the film achieved high reviews from critics and managed to avoid disappointment from long-term fans, Beetlejuice Beetlejuice Burton's film also had the biggest opening of his career—even surpassing his final $1 billion gross. Alice in Wonderland.
according to diversethe The sequel made $13 million in previews, and grossed $41.5 million on Friday.Not only did it make it Burton's personal best opening day, it also came in behind the $50.4 million in 2017's total. He – She The film had the second-highest September opening ever. Not bad for a film that spent years in development hell and seemed destined to become one of Hollywood's greatest “what if” movies.
Beetlejuice Beetlejuice It is now set to be one of the most successful films produced in the past several years, and will easily surpass films like Indiana Jones and the Disc of Destiny And two Ghostbusters sequels, including this year frozen empireThe film’s success is also a perfect example of a movie made at the right time, just when everything was in place to make it happen. While discussions about a sequel have been ongoing for years, with Winona Ryder originally on board for a potential sequel nearly a decade ago, Burton himself believes he couldn’t have made the film until now. Speaking to SlashFilm, Burton explained that Ryder’s character Lydia was the key to bringing Beetlejuice back to screens.
“Well, what happens to this person after 35 years? He’s 35 or older. You go from a cool teenager to what? To a crazy adult or something. And what relationships do you have with him? Do you have kids? What’s your relationship with that? So that wasn’t something I could do at the time.
“It's something you can't do until you experience these things yourself. So for me, this movie became very personal, like a weird family movie, about a weird family, or a weird family movie, or I don't know how you want to look at it.”
The success of Beetlejuice is unlikely to lead to a third film.
While it's common for a film's success to prompt studio heads to immediately look for a potential sequel, the idea of Beetlejuice Beetlejuice birthBeetlejuice Beetlejuice BeetlejuiceThis is something Burton did not expect given how long it took to make the second film. During the film's London premiere, Burton joked:
Well, then [the same] In time, I'll be around 100. So maybe. I doubt it.
While the initial reaction from many fans will be to want more Beetlejuice in their lives, there are plenty of franchises that have gone from dire highs to dire lows by rushing to release more sequels. Burton himself knows this all too well from his time at Disney. Alice Through the Looking GlassThe film didn't perform as well as its predecessor, and having avoided the pitfalls that come with reviving a long-dormant franchise for a new generation, it would be foolish to undo all of that by rushing out a third installment.
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