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Beetlejuice(1988)
Released
1988 · FILM

Beetlejuice

A grieving couple awakens to find themselves ghostly strangers in their own home after a fatal car plunge, and must unravel the surreal clues of their new existence before they’re forever trapped between worlds.

“In this house... if you've seen one ghost... you haven't seen them all.”

Directed by
Tim Burton, K C Colwell
Written by
Michael Mcdowell, Warren Skaaren
Rated
MPA · PG
Runtime
92 min
ComedyFantasy

Synopsis

A recently deceased New England couple enlists the aid of a deranged demon exorcist in an attempt to drive an affluent New York family out of their home.

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The scale of the collaboration

A crew of 267+ credited

Why a floor?

This is a minimum, not a total. We only count the credits we’ve captured so far, and coverage is uneven — a blockbuster might show a few hundred names while another of the same size shows a couple dozen. The real crews all ran into the thousands. The number here only grows as full credits are enriched — so we frame it as a floor, never a headcount.

Craft leads on file

Edited by Jane KursonShot by Thomas E AckermanScored by Danny ElfmanDesigned by Bo WelchSound by Richard L AndersonCostumes by Aggie Guerard RodgersStunts by Fred LernerVFX by Alan Munro

Box Office

1988 · Box office

💰 Box-office hit — grossed 5.6× its budget

Why 2.5×?

Cinemas keep roughly half of every ticket sold, and a wide release’s marketing often costs about as much again as the film — so a movie needs to gross around 2.5× its production budget just to break even theatrically. It’s a rule of thumb, not the studio’s ledger (home video and streaming come later).

Worldwide gross

$84.6M

Budget$15.0M
Worldwide gross$84.6M
break-even (2.5×)

US & Canada: $73.7M — 87% of worldwide · International: $10.8M (13%)

Opening weekend: $8.0M — 11% of its US run. It had legs — it kept earning long after opening weekend.

Peak 1,000 theaters

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Also known as

  • Beetlejuicede
  • Lottergeist Beetlejuicede
  • Beetle Juiceen
  • Beetlejuiceen
  • Beetlejuice - Spiritello porcelloit

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