Tim Burton’s long-awaited sequel Beetlejuice Beetlejuice from Warner Bros., opened to a monstrous $110 million, coming in on the high end of expectations. The campy comedy-horror movie delivered the second-biggest September opening of all time behind fellow Warners’ 2017 R-rated Stephen King adaptation It($123 million), not adjusted for inflation. And it was a career-best opening for Winona Ryder, Catherine O’Hara, Monica Bellucci, Justin Theroux and Jenna Ortega.
Beetlejuice Beetlejuice sees the return of Michael Keaton as the titular ghoulish prankster, alongside Ryder and O’Hara. Franchise newcomers include Ortega, Theroux, Bellucci, Arthur Conti and Willem Dafoe. This time around, Lydia Deetz (Ryder) and her family return home after a tragedy only to find that her daughter, Astrid (Ortega), has opened a portal to the afterlife.
Deadpool & Wolverine placed No. 2 in its seventh weekend with $7.2 million domestically for a global cume of $1.257 million. The indie Ronald Reagan biopic Reagan followed in third place with a solid $5.2 million for a 10-day domestic total of $18.5 million and Alien: Romulus with $4 million for hefty global total of $314.4 million.
