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GenreComedy, Fantasy & Horror
RatedPG-13
Runtime1 hr 45 mins
ReleasedSeptember 6, 2024
StreamingSee Where to Watch
DirectorTim Burton
StarringMichael Keaton, Winona Ryder, Catherine O'Hara
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Beetlejuice Beetlejuice (2024)
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| Beetlejuice Beetlejuice's Details | |
| Genre | Comedy, Fantasy & Horror |
| Rated | PG-13 |
| Released | 08/28/2024 (Venice); 09/06/2024 (United States) |
| Streaming | See Where to Watch on this page. |
| Running Time | 1 hr 45 mins |
| Budget | $99–100M (reported) |
| Box Office | Updated daily from Box Office Mojo. See the numbers below. |
| Based On | Characters by Michael McDowell and Larry Wilson |
| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
| Beetlejuice Beetlejuice's Interests | |
| General | Striped suits, model towns, Winter River, paranormal talk shows, afterlife paperwork. |
| Music | Danny Elfman returns. The album sneaks in two of his cues from the 1988 original. |
| Movies | Beetlejuice (1988). The original haunted house, same striped suit. |
| Television | Wednesday. Jenna Ortega and Tim Burton, warming up for this. |
| Heroes | Delia Deetz. Still treats every room like a gallery opening. |
| Beetlejuice Beetlejuice's Crew | |
| Director | Tim Burton |
| Writers | Alfred Gough, Miles Millar, Alfred Gough (story), Miles Millar (story), Seth Grahame-Smith (story) |
| Producers | Marc Toberoff, Dede Gardner, Jeremy Kleiner, Tommy Harper, Tim Burton |
| Cinematography | Haris Zambarloukos |
| Music | Danny Elfman |
| Edited By | Jay Prychidny |
| Production | The Geffen Company, Plan B Entertainment, Tim Burton Productions |
| Distributed By | Warner Bros. Pictures |
Beetlejuice Beetlejuice spends its first half hour setting out game pieces: a ghost-hunting TV show, a funeral, a smarmy boyfriend, a skeptical teen, an afterlife detective, a soul-draining ex-wife. Hang in there. Winona Ryder’s Lydia now hosts Ghost House, and her daughter Astrid, played by Jenna Ortega with expert-level gloom, thinks her mom’s ghost talk is fake. A death in the family drags them back to Winter River, where Lydia’s producer boyfriend Rory starts pushing for a Halloween wedding. Down in the Netherworld, Betelgeuse runs a call center staffed by shrunken heads, which may be the most Tim Burton sentence ever typed. Willem Dafoe plays Wolf Jackson, a former action star now working as an afterlife cop. Ryder is the quiet standout, and Keaton still crackles, though the gags feel safer this time. The handmade effects are a treat. It made $452 million worldwide. A 6.1 because the weirdness is back even if the bite isn’t. $853 says you dig a black-and-white striped shirt out of your closet before Halloween and call it a coincidence.
What works: Ryder and Ortega give the family story a real pulse, and the handmade effects and the unhinged wedding finale feel like vintage Burton.
What doesn’t: The opening crams in so many characters and subplots that it takes ages to get going, and the edge of the original has been filed down.
Who it’s for: Fans of the original who want a Halloween movie night the teens in the house will actually sit through.
Spoilers
Astrid’s new friend Jeremy turns out to be a ghost who wants to swap places with her, and her late dad Richard helps her and Lydia escape the afterlife. At the wedding, Rory admits he only wanted Lydia’s money, a sandworm swallows him and Delores, and Astrid finds the loophole that cancels Betelgeuse’s marriage contract.
Lydia Deetz (Winona Ryder) grew up and got her own TV show, Ghost House, all about the paranormal. Her teenage daughter Astrid (Jenna Ortega) thinks ghosts are fake and figures her mom is too. Lydia has already spotted someone in her studio audience she hoped never to see again: Betelgeuse (Michael Keaton). Then bad family news from her stepmom Delia (Catherine O'Hara) sends Lydia and Astrid back to Winter River, the little town where all the weirdness started. Somewhere in the afterlife, a detective named Wolf Jackson (Willem Dafoe) is on duty. Tim Burton directs. One hundred four minutes, and nobody say his name three times.
Goths of every generation. Bring your best Day-O dance moves.
| Michael Keaton | Betelgeuse |
| Winona Ryder | Lydia Deetz |
| Catherine O'Hara | Delia Deetz |
| Jenna Ortega | Astrid Deetz |
| Justin Theroux | Rory |
| Willem Dafoe | Wolf Jackson |
| Monica Bellucci | Delores LaFerve |
| Arthur Conti | Jeremy Frazier |
| Burn Gorman | Father Damien |
| Santiago Cabrera | Richard |
| Nick Kellington | Bob |
| Amy Nuttall | Jane Butterfield Jr |
| Paul Warren | Tom |
| Mark Heenehan | Charles Deetz |
| Charlie Hopkinson | Charles Deetz |
| Danny DeVito | a janitor in the Netherworld whose soul is drained by Delore |
- (cur | prev) 14:30, 20 October 2026 DataBot +560 Numbers refreshed: Worldwide box office $452M; Domestic box office $294.1M; Opening weekend $111M; Profit / loss (est.) +$76.8M; Rotten Tomatoes 75%; CinemaScore B+; box office chart updated; Rotten Tomatoes critics 75% (378 reviews); Metacritic 62 / 100; Rotten Tomatoes audience 78% (10,000+ verified ratings); PostTrak audience 81% positive; CinemaScore B+; IMDb users 6.6 / 10 (181,139 votes); movie.guru score 5.9.
- (cur | prev) 12:00, 20 October 2026 DataBot +2,000 Profile created from Wikipedia and Box Office Mojo: cast, crew, release dates, budget, official trailer.