EXCLUSIVE: Oscar and Emmy Award-nominee Alex Buono (Documentary Now!, Russian Doll) has been tapped as producing director and will direct the pilot of Peacock’s Based on a True Story from Craig Rosenberg.
13.10.2022 - 23:59 / usmagazine.com
Class in session. Christina Ricci is not reprising her role as the morbid and sadistic Wednesday Addams in Netflix’s upcoming Wednesday, but she will play a teacher at Nevermore Academy, where Jenna Ortega’s version of the beloved character is enrolled.
‘Wednesday’: Everything to Know
Earlier this month, it was officially revealed that Ricci would be playing Ms. Marilyn Thornhill in Tim Burton’s adaptation, which also stars Catherine Zeta-Jones, Luis Guzman, Gwendoline Christie and Fred Armisen as Uncle Fester. (Ricci’s Now and Then costar Thora Birch will appear in a few episodes too.)
“It was super fun. I was really excited to work with Tim again,” Ricci exclusively told Us Weekly while promoting her partnership with Stella & Chewy’s. “I was so excited also to work with Gwendoline. Jenna is so amazing and so good in this part and was so great to work with. And so it was really lovely.”
The eight-episode spinoff series was initially announced in February 2021. Ricci previously played Wednesday Addams in 1991’s The Addams Family opposite Anjelica Huston, Raul Julia and Christopher Lloyd and returned for its sequel, Addams Family Values, in 1993.
While audiences await Wednesday’s debut in November, Ricci has also been keeping busy filming Yellowjackets season 2. The Showtime drama became an overnight smash, recently earning seven Emmys nominations.
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“I mean there’s so many positives with both genres and a few negatives,” Ricci told Us of working in both television and film. “I like doing TV because you kind of get to spend a longer time with the character, and if you do like the character, then that’s fantastic and great. And then I do like movies as well because you do have this
EXCLUSIVE: Oscar and Emmy Award-nominee Alex Buono (Documentary Now!, Russian Doll) has been tapped as producing director and will direct the pilot of Peacock’s Based on a True Story from Craig Rosenberg.
There’s a lot riding on Jenna Ortega’s deadpan performance as Wednesday Addams in Tim Burton’s coming-of-age comedy Wednesday, which debuts — of course — Wednesday, November 23 on Netflix. She plays the beloved Addams family character in the series, which marks Burton’s first live-action show, as well as his directing debut for such a project.
Jenna Ortega had to "shower in cold water" during the COVID-19 pandemic. The 20-year-old actress was shooting the title role in Netflix series 'Wednesday' in Romania when the pandemic broke out and explained that the entire cast was left without hot water in their accommodation because there were no repair workers available to fix a faulty boiler. She said: " I mean, we were out there for seven, eight months in Romania.
Christina Ricci has witnessed firsthand Jenna Ortega’s take on Wednesday Addams. The actress, who previously portrayed Gomez and Morticia Addams’s firstborn, has a cameo on Netflix’s highly anticipated series Wednesday.Ricci told HollywoodLife how she felt watching Jenna’s performance on the filming set. “It’s really exciting, and it’s really fun.
Pierce Brosnan was once in the running to play Batman, and he is looking back on his campaign to embody the caped crusader.
Before he enters the DCEU as Doctor Fate in “Black Adam,” in theaters next Friday, and before he became James Bond for four films, Pierce Brosnan was almost Batman for Tim Burton. EW reports that in an interview on “The Tonight Show,” Brosnan mentioned he was up for the lead role in Burton’s 1989 “Batman,” but a “stupid” comment may have cost him the job.
Pierce Brosnan once auditioned for the role of Batman.
trailer was released Saturday, there were plenty of surprises for fans to get excited about. For the cast of Netflix's anticipated new take on the iconic daughter, two cameos revealed in the trailer — Christina Ricci, marking her return to the franchise, and Fred Armisen, who was officially introduced as Uncle Fester — were highlights of the drop.Ricci's debut offered more details on her new character, Miss Marylin Thornhill, as the actress, who played young Wednesday in the '90s films, passes the torch to star Jenna Ortega.«She’s very close to Wednesday and Christina being a wonderful character actress that she is really delivers something that is very memorable and again, so impressed by her,» Ortega told ET at New York Comic Con over the weekend. «I think people are really gonna love it.»While Ortega noted that she and Ricci «never» spoke about playing the same character decades apart, Ortega praised the star, sharing that they «got to know each other as artists and individuals.»Gwendoline Christie, who plays Nevermore Academy Principal Larissa Weems, also praised Ricci's performance as Miss Thornhill.
Kingdom Of The Planet Of The Apes, 20th Century’s latest installment in the Planet of the Apes franchise, has begun production at Disney Studios Australia, formerly known as Fox Studios Australia, in Sydney, New South Wales.
Katherine Tulich 20th Century Studios’ fantasy action film “Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes,” has begun production in Sydney, New South Wales, at the iconic Fox Studios Australia, which have been newly renamed Disney Studios Australia. The franchise film is pitched as a new chapter in the “Planet of the Apes” saga, picking up many years after the conclusion of 2017’s “War for the Planet of the Apes.” Under the direction of Wes Ball (“The Maze Runner” trilogy) it will star Owen Teague (“It”), Freya Allan (“The Witcher”), Peter Macon (“The Orville”), Eka Darville (“Jessica Jones”) and Kevin Durand (“The Strain”).
won't premiere until after Spooky Season is officially over. But having now seen the full-length , I'm thinking of petitioning the government to officially extend Halloween until the series drops on November 23. Who can arrange? The show is set at magical boarding school Nevermore Academy, a format for which I am famously a sucker.
What’s Tim Burton up to, you ask? Well, after 2019’s Disney foray with the live-action remake of “Dumbo,” he’s back to the franchise route and staying in his spooky lane with “Wednesday,” a new take on “The Addams Family” franchise. As you likely heard by now, “Wednesday” centers on the titular Wednesday Addams family member, played by Jenna Ortega, and the film is now a series is now a Netflix series with a huge cast.
Netflix comedy horror film Wednesday has been shared, with Fred Armisen revealed to be playing Uncle Fester.A first trailer for the upcoming Addams Family reboot series was shared earlier this summer and saw Wednesday Addams (Jenna Ortega) causing chaos at her public school swimming pool before being transferred to Nevermore Academy.In the new trailer, a perceived threat to Addams is revealed instead to be her Uncle Fester, portrayed by Armisen.
The official trailer for Netflix’s anticipated Addams Family series, “Wednesday”, is here — and there were plenty of surprises!
A new trailer for the upcoming Addams Family show Wednesday has been released!
, is here — and there were of surprises!During Saturday's New York Comic Con panel, the streaming service debuted the two-and-a-half-minute trailer touting the upcoming dark comedy, which stars Jenna Ortega as the iconic titular character, and introduced a nearly unrecognizable Fred Armisen as Uncle Fester. It also featured the franchise return of Christina Ricci, who played Wednesday in the '90s movies, playing a new character, Miss Thornhill.The jam-packed trailer sets up the nutty world viewers will enter into when the series drops next month, revealing Uncle Fester's arrival in a dramatic showdown with Wednesday, as the duo ride off together.Ricci's appearance comes at the tail-end of the trailer as she introduces herself to Wednesday at Nevermore.In the eight-episode drama, Wednesday attempts to master her emerging psychic ability, thwart a monstrous killing spree that has terrorized the local town and solve the supernatural mystery that embroiled her parents 25 years ago — all while navigating her new and very tangled relationships at Nevermore.«I act as if I don't care that people dislike me,» Wednesday says in the trailer.