Tim Burton has some experience with streaming under his belt, as he is an executive producer on the hit Netflix series Wednesday, but in the discussion of making Beetlejuice Beetlejuice, the idea of making it as a Max original was apparently a non-starter. In the words of producer Pamela Abdy,

Tim Burton's long-awaited "Beetlejuice" sequel almost received a streaming-only release. But thanks to Burton's budget cuts and negotiations with Warner Bros. Discovery executives, plans for a potential Max-exclusive were scrapped in favor of a full theatrical debut.

A New York Times story profiling the huge financial success of Beetlejuice Beetlejuice revealed that director Tim Burton drastically slashed the sequel’s budget shortly before filming began. Beetlejuice Beetlejuice producers and Warner Bros.