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Jenna Ortega appears to be paying homage to Lydia Deetz with her dress at the Beetlejuice Beetlejuice premiere!

The 2024 Venice Film Festival kicked off August 28 with the long-awaited Tim Burton-Michael Keaton sequel Beetlejuice Beetlejuice opening the 81th edition, which runs through September 7 on the Lido. Deadline is on the ground to watch all the key films. 

Beetlejuice Beetlejuice had its world premiere this evening as the opening film of the Venice Film Festival.

Venice Film Festival Artistic director Alberto Barbera staved off concerns about a lack of press junkets as the event kicked off what he described as an edition “with the longest list of talents” in recent memory. Asked by a German journalist why there were “no press junkets” at Venice this year, Barbera said: “I am not aware of this situation,” adding: “I don’t think it concerns the bulk of the lineup.” Journalists have lamented about the fact that the buzziest star-studded titles playing at Venice this year, such as Angelina Jolie-starrer “Maria,” Luca Guadagnino’s “Queer,” with Daniel Craig, and Jon Watts-directed action comedy “Wolfs,” pairing George Clooney and Brad Pitt, won’t be doing any press besides the festival press conferences.

Thirty-six years after Tim Burton and Michael Keaton collaborated on classic supernatural comedy Beetlejuice, the pair are unveiling the sequel Beetlejuice Beetlejuice here at the Venice Film Festival. The follow-up will have its gala world premiere this evening after having screened for the press this morning.

The stars of Beetlejuice Beetlejuice have arrived in Italy for the 2024 Venice Film Festival!

Jenna Ortega reckons she once auditioned for a role in Dune.The Wednesday star said in a new interview that she went in for the role of Chani, which eventually went to Zendaya, in a secret audition when she was 15.Ortega, who is now 21, told BuzzFeed: “I think it was Chani, I think it was Zendaya’s. But they weren’t saying that, everything was very secret.”The actress added that she remembers being “really excited” at the audition because director Denis Villeneuve “is one of my favourite filmmakers.”Along with Zendaya, the critically acclaimed first instalment of the sci-fi series went on to also star Timothée Chalamet, Rebecca Ferguson, Oscar Isaac, Josh Brolin, Stellan Skarsgard and Dave Bautista.

Although her hairstyle appears to have remained the same, Winona Ryder had her work cut out for her in updating the character of Lydia Deetz.

Zack Sharf Digital News Director Michael Keaton is back as the eponymous “Ghost With the Most” in Tim Burton’s long-awaited “Beetlejuice Beetlejuice,” which is opening the Venice Film Festival this month before opening in theaters in September. The actor recently told GQ magazine that one of his stipulations for returning as Beetlejuice was for the sequel not to beef up his screen time. After all, the character is only on screen in the 1988 original for 17 minutes.

Jenna Ortega has spoken about the close friendship that she struck up with Winona Ryder on the set of the upcoming film Beetlejuice Beetlejuice.The sequel to the 1988 cult classic is out in cinemas on September 4, and sees director Tim Burton and stars Michael Keaton, Ryder and Catherine O’Hara returning to the franchise alongside newcomers Ortega, Willem Dafoe and Monica Bellucci.Ortega plays the rebellious Astrid Deetz, the daughter of Ryder’s Lydia, as the Deetz clan return home to Winter River following the death of Charles Deetz. See the film’s trailer below.The on-screen mother and daughter turned out to be fast friends in real life, as Ortega recently explained to Fandango.“Obviously joining a sequel to something and it being so long since the original, I think I just wanted to put my head down and do the work and show up and be respectful and read my little book book off to the side,” Ortega said,.“But I think Winona was so warm and so welcoming, as was Catherine [O’Hara], as was everybody else, that you almost didn’t have a choice but to become a part of the family, which I’m so grateful for because I think that in shooting and working together and Tim’s playful spirit, I felt like everything that we were doing felt like we were all in on the same joke or on the same page or had the same ideas.”“It just felt like a free and collaborative space, but Winona and I — I swear we just started talking one day on set and then never stopped,” she continued.

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Schitt’s Creek” stars and creators will make history as the first-ever father and son duo to host the event. They’ll be the second pair to host this century, as “SNL” stars Colin Jost and Michael Che co-hosted in 2018.

Jenna Ortega has recreated the “demure” viral TikTok trend while on set with her co-stars of the upcoming film Beetlejuice Beetlejuice.The trend has bubbled up in recent weeks after the creator Jools Lebron began using certain phrases as a way of explaining to followers how she handles herself in public – being “very demure” while waiting to board a plane, or “very mindful” when on holiday, for example.Since gaining traction, there have been tens of thousands of posts on the platform using the word “demure” and referencing the trend, and now Ortega has brought it into a more mainstream setting.Appearing alongside Justin Theroux, who plays Ortega’s father in the film, Ortega mouths along to Lebron’s words, including smirking as she says, “I don’t come to work with a green cut crease,” while pointing at the shrunken-headed green prosthetic figure sitting behind her.Jenna Ortega doing the “demure” trend in a new video for ‘BEETLEJUICE BEETLEJUICE’ pic.twitter.com/TIVJCCtqto— Complex Pop Culture (@ComplexPop) August 15, 2024Beetlejuice Beetlejuice, the sequel to the 1988 cult classic, is out in cinemas on September 4, and sees director Tim Burton and stars Michael Keaton, Winona Ryder and Catherine O’Hara returning to the franchise alongside newcomers Ortega, Willem Dafoe and Monica Bellucci.Ortega plays the rebellious Astrid Deetz, the daughter of Ryder’s Lydia, as the Deetz clan return home to Winter River following the death of Charles Deetz. See the film’s trailer below.In other Ortega news, the Wednesday star has recently been speaking about the issue of “political correctness” in Hollywood and how she feels it can “lack honesty”.“The business that we work in is so touchy-feely,” she said.

Beetlejuice, Beetlejuice, the long-awaited Warner Bros sequel to the 1988 Tim Burton directed, Michael Keaton starring haunted comedy landed on three-week tracking this AM with an outlook of $65M-$75M — however, don’t be surprised if it does more for there’s too much fuel on this building box office bonfire.

Deadpool & Wolverine popcorn bucket went viral on social media, fans are getting excited about a range of new popcorn buckets for the upcoming new Beetlejuice Beetlejuice film release.Micheal Keaton is due to return as the character Betelgeuse in upcoming sequel, having originally played the role in the 1988 Tim Burton classic.The film will see Burton return as director, as well as Winona Ryder as Lydia Deetz and Catherine O’Hara as Delia Deetz, with the story set 40 years after the events of the first film.Jenna Ortega joins the franchise as Lydia’s daughter Astrid, while Monica Bellucci plays Beetlejuice’s wife. Willem Dafoe meanwhile will play ghost detective Wolf Jackson.The film, which has been in the pipeline for many years and was confirmed in 2022, is due for release on September 6, with production last year delayed slightly due to the Hollywood strikes.Ahead of its release, some US cinemas are already starting to share details of their Beetlejuice Beetlejuice themed popcorn buckets which could rival those of the recent Deadpool & Wolverine success.Regal Cinemas shared some images of their buckets which you can see below.The collection includes a Sandworm collectable container which is designed to look like one of the black and white striped sandworms from the film.

Jennifer Maas TV Business Writer Warner Bros., Roblox and Fandango have teamed up to launch a virtual box office for Tim Burton’s upcoming “Beetlejuice” sequel inside of the online gaming platform. Beginning Monday, Roblox users ages 13 and up in the U.S.

EXCLUSIVE: Jenna Ortega is in final talks, we hear, to join JJ Abrams‘ secret untitled movie at Warner Bros.

Meredith Woerner Deputy Editor, Variety.com Finally, fashion for the strange and unusual. Warner Bros.

The Last Of Us. Watch it below.The footage for The Last of Us season two was shared by Max today (August 5) as part of a showreel of the HBO streaming platform’s forthcoming offerings for 2024-2025.Alongside The Last of Us season two, other highly anticipated series teased include The White Lotus season three, along with the debuts of The Penguin, Dune: Prophecy and Game of Thrones spin-off A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms.It appears that The Last of Us season two will adapt the events of the 2023 video game sequel with returning leads Pedro Pascal and Bella Ramsey, along with new cast members Kaitlyn Denver, Catherine O’Hara and Isabela Merced.Watch the full showreel below, along with a standalone clip of The Last of Us season two.First teaser for ‘THE LAST OF US’ Season 2.Releasing in 2025 on HBO.

As summer nears its final moments, several films that arrived in theaters earlier this year will be available to stream in August. From action and adrenaline to animated adventures to classics with passionate fandoms, new releases and older films that gain rewatches multiple times over will rotate between the various streamer services.

The Venice Film Festival, a perennial awards platform, revealed another powerhouse lineup this morning, including Todd Phillips’ Joaquin Phoenix/Lady Gaga starrer Joker: Folie à Deux, Pedro Almodóvar’s English-language debut The Room Next Door with Tilda Swinton and Julianne Moore, Luca Guadagnino’s Daniel Craig starrer Queer, based on the William S. Burroughs novel, Pablo Larrain’s Maria Callas biopic Maria with Angelina Jolie, and Nicole Kidman A24 movie Babygirl.