Max Is Ready To Summon 'Beetlejuice Beetlejuice'
It’s streaming and HBO showtime for the ghost with the most this December
Daylight come and the movie go home. Tim Burton’s long-awaited Beetlejuice sequel Beetlejuice Beetlejuice will arrive on Max on December 6. As is standard of Warner Bros. films hitting the streamer, even back before Max was an involved name, the arrival immediately precedes its linear HBO premiere on Saturday, December 7 at 6:10 PM ET.
Opening on September 6, it will have taken 92 days from its theatrical release to its Max arrival. That’s basically the average, taking a week longer than Furiosa and Wonka but a week shorter than Godzilla x Kong. Beetlejuice Beetlejuice grossed over $451 million worldwide, only just having fallen out of the top 10 of this year’s earners rather recently, overtaken by Venom: The Last Dance. It’s the second highest-grossing domestic earner for Burton’s career, with over $294 million.
Beetlejuice Beetlejuice stars the returning Michael Keaton as Beetlejuice, Winona Ryder as Lydia Deetz, and Catherine O’Hara as Lydia’s stepmom Delia. Lydia now has teenage daughter Astrid, played by Jenna Ortega, and, already widowed, learns that her father Charles has died, and so they head back to her old home in Winter Village. Lydia has done everything in her power to suppress and push away her past. Delia is not coping very well. Astrid, also psychic, meets the ghost of Jeremy Frazie, played by Arthur Conti, who tricks her into a trip to the Netherworld. Lydia must rescue Astrid and very reluctantly resorts to enlisting Beetlejuice for help. The film also stars Monica Bellucci as Beetlejuice’s ex-wife Delores LaFevre; Willem Dafoe as the charmingly helpless Wolf Jackson, who was an actor in life but became a real detective in death, and Justin Theroux as Rory, Lydia's current boyfriend and producer of the paranormal television series she hosts.
The film also features an appearance by Danny DeVito. Alfred Gough & Miles Millar wrote the screenplay from their story conceived with Seth Grahame-Smith, based on Michael McDowell & Larry Wilson’s characters.
Source: Deadline