We're less than a week-and-a-half removed from the theatrical release of Tim Burton's Beetlejuice Beetlejuice, but the film is already a major box office hit. The blockbuster sequel had the third best debut of the year when it first arrived on the big screen at the start September,

While Tim Burton’s Beetlejuice Beetlejuice is one of Warner Bros’ biggest theatrical success stories of the year, at over $264 million in worldwide grosses and counting, there was a period in the decade-plus the studio was mulling the sequel in which execs advocated for the film to go straight to streaming on Max.

A New York Times story profiling the huge financial success of Beetlejuice Beetlejuice revealed that director Tim Burton drastically slashed the sequel’s budget shortly before filming began. Beetlejuice Beetlejuice producers and Warner Bros.