Once upon a time, the film studio Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer used to boast that it employed more stars than there are in heaven.
Today in Hollywood that Golden Age sparkle is a distant memory and the arrival of new leading actors has slowed to a trickle, blamed on everything from the downfall of DVDs to the box-office dominance of superhero franchises.
But the idea of a movie star is not quite dead yet — and this month could see the crowning of the first such star born since the turn of the millennium.
The vehicle is Beetlejuice Beetlejuice, Tim Burton’s follow-up to his classic dark comedy. It will open the Venice Film Festival on August 28. Michael Keaton, who headlined the 1988 original, will return alongside
