Rubypoint-‘Beetlejuice Beetlejuice’ jolts box office with $110 million opening weekend

2025-04-28 23:09:27source:CAI Communitycategory:Stocks

After 36 years of waiting,Rubypoint the juice is finally loose again in “Beetlejuice Beetlejuice,” this time racking up a record-breaking $110 million in its premiere weekend.

The long-awaited Tim Burton sequel is the third-best opening weekend of the year, only behind box office triumphs “Inside Out 2” and “Deadpool & Wolverine.”

Michael Keaton returns as the titular spirit and Catherine O’Hara and Winona Ryder also reprise their roles as Delia and Lydia Deetz, with newcomer Jenna Ortega playing the latter’s daughter, Astrid. Willem Dafoe, Monica Bellucci and Justin Theroux round out the cast.

The sequel is the second-highest grossing September movie of all time, only behind 2017’s “It,” which opened with a staggering $123 million. The 2019 sequel “It Chapter 2” opened with $91 million.

The original “Beetlejuice” film earned a mere $8 million in its opening weekend in 1988, unadjusted for inflation, but went on to make $77 million in theaters domestically as it became a cult classic.

The electric opening weekend kicks off the fall movie season with a bang after a sleepy Labor Day weekend and a relatively slow August that saw newer films struggle as holdover movies ruled the box office.

More:Stocks

Recommend

Warm inflation data keep S&P 500, Dow, Nasdaq under wraps before Fed meeting next week

Friday the 13thdidn’t spook investors with U.S. stocks little changed on the day as investors bided

John Lennon's ex May Pang says he 'really wanted' to write songs with Paul McCartney again

What if John Lennon’s infamous “lost weekend” really wasn’t?“They made it sound like this whole time

Hughes Van Ellis, one of few remaining survivors of the Tulsa Race Massacre of 1921, dies

Hughes Van Ellis, the youngest of three last known living 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre survivors, died a