It’s Showtime for Beetlejuice Beetlejuice because the Warner Bros sequel releases into 717 cinemas throughout the UK and Eire this weekend.
Tim Burton’s follow-up to his 1988 cult hit sees Michael Keaton return because the titular ghoul alongside Winona Ryder and Catherine O’Hara. New faces embrace Jenna Ortega, Willem Dafoe, Justin Theroux and Monica Bellucci.
The unique Beetlejuice made almost $75m on the field workplace (numbers not adjusted for inflation) with the sequel anticipated to exorcise that quantity inside its opening weekend.
Burton’s final theatrical launch was in 2019 with the Disney live-action Dumbo opening on £6.1m from 661 websites. His most profitable launch was 2010’s Alice In Wonderland (additionally Disney) which debuted with £10.6m and grossed £45.6m in complete.
Beetlejuice Beetlejuice seems to have scared away its competitors this weekend with the one different main openings – Sony’s re-release of Spider-Man: Homecoming in 488 cinemas; and Altitude’s occasion title Blur: Stay At Wembley Stadium in 340.
Jude Regulation takes on Henry VIII
Additionally out in cinemas is Karim Aïnouz’s Firebrand starring Jude Regulation and Alicia Vikander as Henry VIII and his sixth spouse Katherine Parr. MetFilm Distribution releases the interval drama, which first premiered at Cannes 2023 in Competitors, in 192 venues.
UK horror Starve Acre opens in 58 places for BFI Distribution. Daniel Kokotajlo’s characteristic stars Matt Smith and Morfydd Clark as a pair thrown into turmoil when their son begins behaving unusually.
Studiocanal has a 75th anniversary reissue of The Third Man in 42 cinemas. The detective thriller stars Orson Welles and Joseph Cotten.
Fantasia award-winner Crimson Rooms lands in 12 venues for Vertigo Releasing. The Canadian cyber thriller had its world premiere at Karlovy Differ and follows a tech-savvy overachiever who turns into obsessive about the high-profile trial of a serial killer
British political thriller The Whip begins rolling out in three places for Workbus.
Different releases embrace documentary Knock Out Blonde: The Kellie Maloney Story for Kaleidoscope and Park Circus re-release of 1995’s Batman Ceaselessly.
Deadpool & Wolverine, It Ends With Us and Despicable Me 4 stay key holdovers.
