Currently, "Beetlejuice Beetlejuice" is slated to land in theaters on September 6, 2024. Originally, the spooky sequel shared that 9/6 release date with the MCU's "Blade." While it would've been interesting to see two horror-ish titles fight it out for box office supremacy, this battle wasn't to be. Due to production delays and the Writers Guild of America strike, "Blade" was kicked back to 2025.
Will "Beetlejuice Beetlejuice" hit that September date? For a while, things looked dicey. Shooting was put on hold due to the SAG-AFTRA strike, and rumor had it that Warner Bros. was going to shuffle a number of release dates in response. With the strike concluded, however, this danger has passed. How did the project avoid further delays? As Tim Burton told The Independent, there wasn't much left to film. "Literally, it was a day and a half," he said when discussing how much more they had to shoot before production shut down. "We know what we have to do. It is 99% done."
This turned out to be true: About a week after the SAG-AFTRA strike ended, filming resumed in Melrose, MA. According to a number of reports, it wrapped up within a couple of days. Good thing, too — in a recent Fandango poll, cinephiles named "Beetlejuice Beetlejuice" as one of their most anticipated 2024 movies.
