After 30 years, we’re lastly getting a sequel to 1988’s creepy comedy Beetlejuice. Do we want one? I don’t know. However as a result of everybody concerned waited so lengthy to make Beetlejuice, Beetlejuice we now have to look at Michael Keaton’s “Ghost with the Most” get shoved into Roblox in one other determined instance of Hollywood making an attempt to get younger individuals to look at motion pictures.
After quite a few makes an attempt (and failures) to make a Beetlejuice sequel, in 2022 WB introduced its plans to make the one we’re lastly, truly getting. Tim Burton is again directing the follow-up alongside new and authentic solid members like Keaton and Winona Ryder. And certainly one of these new actors, Jenny Ortega, was chosen to share some miserable information: Beetlejuice is coming to Roblox.
Introduced at the moment, the Beetlejuice, Beetlejuice Roblox expertise is dwell now. Gamers can hop in and play a couple of mini-games, unlock in-game content material for his or her Roblox character, and discover a digital panorama impressed by the upcoming movie. And sure, you possibly can hang around with Beetlejuice, who appears to be like like a demented knock-off mini-fig primarily based on a child’s cartoon drawing of the well-known character. However that is simply what Roblox appears to be like prefer to me any time I’m compelled towards my will to be taught extra about this horrible recreation full of shady individuals, rip-off artists, and possibly some precise children.
For individuals who wish to get nuts (editor’s word: fallacious Keaton franchise), they’ll line up at a pretend field workplace in Roblox and purchase real-world film tickets through Fandango. And now the true purpose for this odd advertising and marketing stunt is obvious: to get individuals to purchase tickets to a film.
Let’s learn some buzzwords!
“We’re all the time seeking to have interaction audiences and amplify our attain in new and thrilling methods; this first-of-its-kind collaboration with Roblox and Fandango for Beetlejuice, Beetlejuice permits for simply that,” Cameron Curtis, VP of selling at Warner Bros. completely mentioned out loud. For actual. And never simply on this buzzword-laden remark shared in a press launch.
“As we proceed to check commerce, providing a chance to buy tickets throughout the movie-inspired immersive setting is a approach to discover a brand new client class and additional have interaction customers who wish to buy various things,” mentioned Stephanie Latham, Roblox’s VP of worldwide partnerships in a remark that feels prefer it was spit out by a robotic pretending to be human, however failing.
Anyway, that new Beetlejuice film arrives in theaters on September 6. You’ll be able to go to this new Roblox expertise now.
Or, as a substitute, you possibly can simply learn Roblox Studio head Stefano Corazza’s feedback suggesting their recreation helps “children” dwelling within the “slums” generate profits through content material creation. We dwell within the worst timeline.
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