Beetlejuice

Beetlejuice

The director of Beetlejuice is

Tim Burton

Other movies

Tim Burton

has directed:

-The Corpse

Bride

-Batman Returns

-Edward Scissorhands

Relese Date

March 30, 1988

Genre

Dark Comedy

and

Horror

The cast of Beetlejuice is...

Alec Baldwin - Adam Maitland

Michael Keaton - Betelgeuse

Catherine O'Hara - Delia Deetz

Winona Ryder - Lydia Deetz

Robert Goulet - Maxie Dean

Annie McEnroe - Jane Butterfield

Adelle Lutz - Beryl

Cynthia Daly - Three-fingered Typist

Harold Goodman - 2nd Old Bill

Marie Cheatham - Sarah Dean

Bob Pettersen - 2nd Dumb Football Player

Hugo L. Stanger - Old Bill

Duane Davis - Dub Football Player

Jack Angel - Preacher

Patrice Camhi - Receptionist

Geena Davis - Barbara Maitland

Jeffrey Jones - Charles Deetz

Sylvia Sidney - Juno

Glenn Shadix - Otho

Dick Cavett - Bernard

Simmy Bow - Janitor

Gary Jochimsen - Dumb Football Player

Carmen Filpi - Messenger

J. Jay Saunders - 1st Moving Man

Douglas Turner - Char Man

Mark Ettlinger - 2nd Moving Man

Maurice Page - Ernie

Rachel Mittelman - Little Jane

Tony Cox - Preacher

Cost

Budget: $15 Million

Gross Revenue: $73,707,461

Money Made In Opening Weekend: $8,030,897

It was also the 10th highest grossing film in 1988

BEETLEJUICE ONLY HAD 1 MILLION DOLLARS FOR VISUAL EFFECTS

Animated Series

After the movie an animated

series, also named Beetlejuice, was

made. Tim Burton was the

executive producer, and It ran for four

seasons on ABC from September

9th, 1989 to December 6th, 1991.

Story

Development

Michal McDowell's version of Beetlejuice was very violent and not comedic at all. The Maitlands' car crash was very graphic, with Barbra's arm being crushed and the audience could hear the screams as they slowly drown. In the revised script it is very comedic and only a little violent, Barbra referred her arm as being cold because her arm was crushed, is an example of how the script was toned down. They return home only to figure out they are ghosts, due to the carelessness of a little dog. Also instead of possessing the Deetzes to dance at dinner, as in the movie, the Maitlands cause a vine-pattern carpet to come to life and attack the Deetzes by tangling them in their chairs. Instead of Betelgeuse being small man he was a winged demon, his intent to kill the Deetzes instead of scaring them, and wants to do other things Lydia instead of marry her. After Warren Shaaren rewrote it, the script shifted its tone dramatically, including the death of the Maitlands' not as graphic and depicting the after life as a complex bureaucracy.

Soundtrack

The are many shorter and/or instrumental songs that are on the soundtrack that go along with the scenes. There are two main songs though, Jump in the Line (Featured at the end when Lydia gets an A on her math test), and Day-O (featured when the Maitlands' try to scare away the Deetzes by possessing them. It charted at number 145 on the the Billboard 200 albums chart and two weeks later was at 118, spending 6 weeks on the chart.

Accolades

61st Academy Awards: Best Makeup

42nd British Academy of Film: Nominated for- Best Visual effects and makeup

The Saturn Awards: Best horror film and makeup, Sylvia Sydney won an award for best supporting actress for her performance of Juno Nominations- Direction, writing, music, special effects, best supporting actor for Betelgeuse (Michael Keaton)

Hugo Awards- Best dramatic presentation and was 88th in America's film institution in the list of best comedies

Unproduced Sequel

In 1990 Tim Burton had hired someone to write a sequel called Beetlejuice goes Hawaiian. The story was, the Deetes family is moving to Hawaii, where Charles is developing a resort, but they soon figure out the resort is built on an ancient burial ground. The Hawaiian spirit comes back from the afterlife to cause trouble. But then Betelgeuse comes to the rescue by winning a surf contest with magic. Some of the main cast agree to do the sequel but then Burton gets to busy with the movie Batman Returns. 7 years later Burton wants to produce it but the cast is now too old for the roles and they would have to completely recast.

Fun Facts!!!

Adam Maitland suggests going to Jamaica for their honeymoon, but they died before they could go.

The Maitlands' die because of a dog. The dog jumps of the plank that is holding that Maitlands up, and the car lands in the river below.

Beetlejuice is a "bio-exersist" which means to get rid of the living, not the dead.

How did the dumb football players die?

A plane crash, but the coach did survive.