Jenna Ortega: Last News

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Alex Ritman “This really is my first everything,” admits Arthur Conti. “Everything is so new to me.” The young British actor isn’t exaggerating.

Jenna Ortega has revealed who her “dream character” would be to play from history.Speaking during an interview with fellow Beetlejuice Beetlejuice star Catherine O’Hara in which they were asked to name their four favourite films, the Wednesday star shortlisted The Passion Of Joan Of Arc as one of them.The silent film, which was made in 1928, was directed by Carl Theodor Dreyer.“An actress that I love and it’s something that I’ve talked with Tim [Burton] a lot, The Passion Of Joan Of Arc, the Dreyer film,” Ortega said.“Renée Falconetti’s performance in that is absolutely insane. I feel like a dream character for me would be Joan Of Arc.”The other films she listed were French crime drama La Haine, Stanley Kubrick’s Barry Lyndon and the neo-Western road film Paris Texas, which starred late Alien actor Harry Dean Stanton.Meanwhile, Ortega and O’Hara also recently opened up about Beetlejuice Beetlejuice‘s big dance scene at the end featuring their characters Astrid and Delia.Opening up to NME about devising the moment, O’Hara explained that their moves were created by themselves, with the help of a choreographer.“You were the inspiration behind the performance art aspect of it,” Ortega then said of her co-star.

Five years after his death, Jenna Ortega is recalling a sweet moment with the her late friend Cameron Boyce from early in their careers.

Jenna Ortega opened up about her final memories of her friend Cameron Boyce.

Zack Sharf Digital News Director Jenna Ortega remembered the late actor Cameron Boyce supporting her during an uncomfortable audition. Speaking to her “Beetlejuice Beetlejuice” co-stars Winona Ryder and Catherine O’Hara during an interview for French outlet Canal+ (via People), Ortega said she was having a hard time during the audition because was supposed to kiss Boyce during it.

Hurricane Francine in Louisiana won’t scare off Beetlejuice Beetlejuice as the Tim Burton directed Warner Bros. sequel is expected to ease -60% in its second weekend making it the second best second frame for September with around $44M. If that projection holds, it will rank behind New Line’s record September second weekend for It ($60.1M).

Jack Dunn Sabrina Carpenter delivered a cheeky medley of her chart-topping hits — “Please Please Please,” “Taste” and Espresso” or No. s 3, 4 and 5 on the Billboard Hot 100, respectively — at the 2024 MTV VMAs on Tuesday. Cyndi Lauper introduced Carpenter, lauding the singer as a “wonderful songwriter,” and ended her speech by inciting the crowd to “get ready to hear the entire place say ‘motherfucker!'” Carpenter then launched into her on-stage VMAs debut — aptly starting with “Please Please Please” atop a glitter-covered silver swing that hovered over the audience standing in the pit.

Actress Jenna Ortega recently called out Hollywood’s haphazard attempts at reviving old movies with gender-swapped roles for women instead of innovating new stories centered around a female lead. While discussing how "certain movies that should get a sequel, and shouldn’t get a sequel" while promoting her new film "Beetlejuice Beetlejuice", "MTV’s" Josh Horowitz asked Ortega what she thought about a possible reprisal of another Tim Burton classic, "Edward Scissorhands" as "Edith Sicssorhands." "I love that there's a lot more female leads nowadays, I think that's so special.

Peep Show star Matt King has announced he has quit X/Twitter after he said he discovered a disturbing video on the social media site.In his final post, King wrote that he had clicked on a user’s profile in order to limit their access to his account when he came across a video that left him “shaking”. He also criticised owner Elon Musk.“Someone who follows me said something fucked up so I checked on their profile before potentially blocking them,” he added.“First thing I see is an uncensored compilation video of people getting shot dead in America. I’m shaking.

Elon Musk. “Good bye, Twitter,” he wrote. “And thanks for dinner, Elon.”However, Cleese’s daughter Camilla appeared to poke fun at the suggestion, writing in response: “This won’t age well.

The long-awaited sequel to Tim Burton's 1988 classic, Beetlejuice Beetlejuice, has finally hit the cinemas and instantly captured the hearts of moviegoers.

Beetlejuice Beetlejuice stars Jenna Ortega and Catherine O’Hara have opened up about the film’s big dance scene.The sequel to the 1988 film has just hit cinemas, and features a big song and dance scene at the end featuring their characters Astrid and Delia.Opening up to NME about devising the moment, O’Hara explained that their moves were created by themselves, with the help of a choreographer.“You were the inspiration behind the performance art aspect of it,” Ortega then said of her co-star. “I think it read on the page as a proper dance, and you sparked an idea.”O’Hara elaborated: “I wanted the more… illogical to my mind… dance moves that kind of mean nothing in all modern… not all modern dance, modern dance is amazing.”“We were in a tent right off set and we were like, ‘Oh it’s funny when you do that,'” Ortega recalled, O’Hara adding that her fellow star “laid down on the floor and did” a dramatic pose, and they “went for it”.Beetlejuice Beetlejuice follows three generations of the Deetz family as they return to Winter River, as Lydia’s (Winona Ryder) daughter Astrid accidentally opens up the portal to the Afterlife.It also sees the return of Michael Keaton as Betelgeuse, while Justin Theroux, Monica Bellucci and Willem Dafoe join the ensemble alongside Ortega.In NME‘s four-star review of Beetlejuice Beetlejuice, we said the film is held together by director Tim Burton’s “wicked imagination” and is “filled with brilliantly ridiculous moments”.“This film has its flaws, not least some unnecessary CGI sandworms that clash with the kitsch practical effects elsewhere, but its sense of fun never lets up.

After 36 years of waiting, the juice is finally loose again in “Beetlejuice Beetlejuice,” this time racking up $110 million in its premiere weekend.The long-awaited Tim Burton sequel is the third-best opening weekend of the year, only behind box office triumphs “Inside Out 2” and “Deadpool & Wolverine.”Michael Keaton returns as the titular spirit and Catherine O’Hara and Winona Ryder also reprise their roles as Delia and Lydia Deetz, with newcomer Jenna Ortega playing the latter’s daughter, Astrid. Willem Dafoe, Monica Bellucci and Justin Theroux round out the cast.The Warner Bros.

Clayton Davis Senior Awards Editor Selena Gomez wanted her character Mabel, from Hulu’s “Only Murders in the Building,” to be the killer in one of the hit comedy series’ seasons. “I did pitch that,” Gomez said during an interview at the Variety Studio, sponsored by J.Crew and SharkNinja, at the Toronto International Film Festival.

The Post called “pointless” and “belabored,” earned $41.5 million on Friday, its first day in theaters, according to The Numbers.The Tim Burton film, which serves as a sequel to the 1988 cult classic “Beetlejuice,” is expected to take in at least $97 million domestically on its opening weekend, according to The Hollywood Reporter. If that’s the case, the film will enjoy the second-biggest September opening of all time, trailing only behind 2017’s supernatural horror “It.”Michael Keaton, Winona Ryder, and Catherine O’Hara reprised their roles in the sequel — which had a staggering reported production budget of $100 million — and Justin Theroux, Monica Bellucci, Jenna Ortega and Willem Dafoe joined the cast.“Deadpool & Wolverine,” which was in the No.

Beetlejuice was, in essence, a slyly original movie about ghosts who are stuck in a kind of purgatory. So it’s fitting that a long-gestating sequel to the 1988 classic has been seemingly trapped in development hell as long as the titular bio-exorcist has been, well, dead.Nixed screenplays with titles like “Beetlejuice Goes Hawaiian” and “Beetlejuice in Love” have come and gone; the original screenwriters have passed into heaven’s waiting room; Alec Baldwin has long since aged out of playing 30-year-old hunks; and Tim Burton has spent decades teasing the possibility of a sequel while occupied with more pressing projects like, uh… Dumbo.Now, thirty-six years after Beetlejuice became a morbid hit — a gap equal to the passage of time between Citizen Kane and Star Wars — the aptly titled Beetlejuice Beetlejuice is finally shake, shake, shaking into theaters.

Pedro Almodóvar’s The Room Next Door has won the Venice Film Festival’s Golden Lion main prize.

Writer-director Megan Park’s upcoming film, My Old Ass, is something of a departure from her first feature The Fallout — the 2021 Jenna Ortega starrer that followed the survivors of a school shooting —although both films expertly center on a teenage point of view.

With the juice officially loose a second time in theaters as of Sept. 6, those looking to remember what the 1988 original Beetlejuice was about might want to watch the first film.

Sorry to disappoint Sabrina Carpenter and Barry Keoghan fans! It sounds like they might not quite be back together… yet.

Jordan Moreau A lot of people must be saying his name three times, because Beetlejuice is taking over the box office. The long awaited sequel “Beetlejuice Beetlejuice,” directed by Tim Burton and starring Michael Keaton, Winona Ryder and Jenna Ortega, has made $13 million at the box office so far in Thursday previews. The horror comedy is ready to take over the box office, after a slow end to August, with an estimated $100 million to $110 million opening this weekend.