Beetlejuice Beetlejuice has tripled its budget by passing a major global milestone. The new Tim Burton movie is a legacy sequel to his original 1988 horror-comedy featuring the return of Michael Keaton as Betelgeuse, Winona Ryder as Lydia Deetz, and Catherine O’Hara as Delia Deetz alongside a new ensemble cast that includes Jenna Ortega, Willem Dafoe, Justin Theroux, Monica Bellucci, and Arthur Conti. Beetlejuice Beetlejuice box office made a splash when it opened to $111 million, a total that already exceeded the worldwide gross of the entire run of the original movie.