‘Beetlejuice’ is returning to movie theatres next year with a new edition.

Warner Bros. has announced that ‘Beetlejuice 2’ will be released on the big screen on September 6, 2024, reports ‘Variety’.

It opens on the same day as Marvel’s ‘Blade’, a comic book adventure starring Mahershala Ali. Otherwise, there’s not much currently set on the release calendar in the surrounding weeks.

Warner Bros. has fielded hits over Labor Day weekend of years past with ‘It’ and the sequel ‘It: Chapter 2’ as well as ‘The Nun’.

As per ‘Variety’, there’s little information available about the follow-up to Tim Burton’s 1988 film about a pesky poltergeist, but the filmmaker is returning with Michael Keaton as Beetlejuice and Winona Ryder as Lydia Deetz.

Additional cast members include ‘Wednesday’ star Jenna Ortega as the daughter of Ryder’s character, as well as Justin Theroux in a yet-to-be-revealed role. Production is expected to begin in London on May 10.

Brad Pitt’s Plan B is producing ‘Beetlejuice 2’. Alfred Gough and Miles Millar, who worked with Burton on ‘Wednesday’, have penned the screenplay.

In the first film, a recently deceased married couple (played by Geena Davis and Alec Baldwin) are impossibly irked by the new family (Catherine O’Hara and Jeffrey Jones play the parents and Ryder portrays their teenage daughter) that moved into their home. So they contact Beetlejuice, a devious ghost from the Netherworld, who promises to help them haunt the house’s new inhabitants.

A critical and commercial hit, ‘Beetlejuice’ grossed $74.7 million and inspired a Tony-nominated stage musical. After a four-year run, which was interrupted by the pandemic, the show closed on Broadway in January.

The film tells the story of a controlling mother and her five daughters, and is based on the play The House of Bernarda Alba by Frederico García Lorca.

Camila Mendes and Jenna Ortega have become two of Hollywood’s most popular leading ladies, thanks to their projects Wednesday, Riverdale, You and Do Revenge. Now, they are getting ready to join forces with Danny Ramirez, known for his roles in Top Gun: Maverick and The Falcon and the Winter Soldier, to headline production company A24’s latest movie.

The film, entitled Alba, will be produced by Margot Robbie’s LuckyChap Entertainment company and directed by the award-winning film-maker Francisca Alegria. The script, written by Chelsey Lora, will be an adaptation of the play The House of Bernarda Alba by Frederico García Lorca.

The play explores the lives of women in rural Spain, including 60-year-old Bernarda Alba, who loses her husband. Subsequently, Bernarda and her five daughters start observing an eight-year period of mourning during which no contact with the outside world and men is allowed.

The only exception to the rule is her eldest daughter, Angustias, who is allowed to marry a wealthy man. However, as the wedding approaches, Bernarda struggles to maintain her suffocating grip on her daughters, and the young women rebel against their mother’s demands.

To modernise the story, the film will be set on the outskirts of Miami.

This isn’t the first time the play has been made into a movie. In 1991, a recording of the 1968 production staged by the Royal Court Theatre in London was released as a film.

Filming is expected to begin this summer, according to reports. A24 has already released Midsommar, Everything Everywhere All at Once and Minari. Earlier this year Everything Everywhere All at Once got 11 Oscars nominations, making A24 became the most nominated studio in this year’s Oscars.

Abel “The Weeknd” Tesfaye is set to make his feature acting debut, teaming with Waves helmer Trey Edward Shults on an untitled film that also stars Jenna Ortega and Barry Keoghan.

Plot details are being kept under wraps with the pic currently in production. Shults will direct from a script he co-wrote with Tesfaye and his producing partner Reza Fahim. Tesfaye, Fahim, Kevin Turen and Harrison Kreiss are producing with Shultz and Ortega exec producing.

Tesfaye has been developing the project for some time and in recent months came to Shults about directing it. Once he was on board, the two along with Fahim began penning the script that they would ultimately get into the hands of Ortega and Keoghan. Even though both Ortega and Keoghan have been weighing several offers following their big years, both made it clear they wanted this as their next project and following their commitments, the film was a go.

Besides landing Ortega and Keoghan, Shults and Tesfaye also have assembled a below-the-line team that includes director of photography Chayse Irvin (Blonde). Composer and producer OPN, aka Daniel Lopatin (Good Time, Uncut Gems), is scoring the film alongside The Weeknd.

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