If the good folks at Warner Bros. Discovery had their way, Beetlejuice Beetlejuice would have been a streaming exclusive for Max instead of the box office smash it's become. In a new report from The New York Times (via Yahoo! News), its revealed that it was director Tim Burton's agent that paved the way for the sequel to his 1988 classic to be released theatrically, but it wasnt until he managed to wrangle the budget that had everyone at Warner Bros.