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

Oh no, you’ve done it now: You said that name three times, so he’s out!

The Venice Film Festival — which gets underway today — has in recent decades fired the starting gun on the ‘traditional’ awards season.

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.

Venice Film Festival press conference for “Beetlejuice Beetlejuice” that he didn’t set out to make the sequel “for money” — in fact, he didn’t even rewatch the original before he started filming the sequel. Speaking on making a sequel 35 years after his 1988 cult original, Burton said, “And I didn’t even watch it before I did it!” “I wasn’t out to do a big sequel for money or anything like that, I wanted to make this for very personal reasons,” Burton continued.

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.

Beetlejuice guzzles “the juice is loose” hot sauce in a new Warner Bros. promo of the upcoming Beetlejuice Beetlejuice, which parodies popular talk show Hot Ones. In the satire clip, he flippantly answers Michael Keaton‘s questions, leading the actor to walk off the set.

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.

Jenna Ortega is talking about her bond with Winona Ryder.

As he reprises one of his most beloved roles, Michael Keaton is giving credit where it’s due for one of Hollywood’s most lucrative trends.

Tim Burton has revealed that he considered retiring before Netflix‘s Wednesday reignited his career.Speaking to Variety, the director said that after the release of Dumbo in 2019, he was unsure if he’d continue making films: “I really didn’t know. I thought that could have been it, really.

Andrés Buenahora editor Tim Burton pioneered the comic book blockbuster at the start of his career, directing Michael Keaton in both “Batman” and “Batman Returns” for Warner Bros. However, the filmmaker says he’s not interested in returning to superhero films in today’s industry, with its focus on long-term continuity and cinematic universes. “At the moment, I would say no,” Burton tells Variety in a new interview. “I come at things from different points of view, so I would never say never to anything.

Walk of Fame is not one that Tim Burton ever expected. But his reaction to the news perfectly matches the playful, macabre sensibility that has driven his 20 films to almost $4.5 billion in worldwide box office receipts and made a household name out of a filmmaker who has constantly been perceived as an outsider. “I remember, I first thought they were gravestones before I knew what they were,” Burton tells Variety.

GQ. Keaton, 72, did say he admires directors Adil El Arbi and Bilall Fallah, who had a rebound hit this summer with “Bad Boys: Ride or Die.” “I like those boys. They’re nice guys,” he said.

Michael Keaton is opening up about reprising his iconic role as Beetlejuice in the upcoming sequel Beetlejuice Beetlejuice and the two conditions he had for signing on to the project.

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.

Michael Keaton is opening up about Batgirl.

Zack Sharf Digital News Director Michael Keaton recently told GQ magazine that he wasn’t too upset when Warner Bros. scrapped the release of “Batgirl,” in which the actor reprised his iconic role of Batman opposite Leslie Grace in the title role. The studio shelved the film in August 2022 in a cost-cutting move.