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Kenny Ortega
Birth Name:
Kenneth John Ortega
Date of Birth:
18 April 1950, Palo Alto, California, USA
Has worked with Madonna, Cher, Gloria Estefan and Elton John.
As of 2007, he has directed three out of the four successful Disney Channel Original Movies with High School Musical (2006), The Cheetah Girls 2 (2006) , High School Musical 2 (2007) and he latest High School Musical 3 Senior Year(2009)
On set, if he catches an actor or actress yawning, he forces them to pay him a dollar. After production he donates all the proceeds to "The Make a Wish Foundation".
Longtime personal friend and choreographer to Michael Jackson.
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Kenny Ortega - news / articles
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Ortega quits Footloose -
27 October 2009
-The upcoming remake of classic 1984 dance movie Footloose has been thrown into jeopardy after director Kenny Ortega quit the project, according to reports.-
-The High School Musical filmmaker was said to have been unhappy with the tone and budget of the update and de
Kenny Ortega - what members say
review by A customer from Southampton
A Wonderful Experience for the Young at Heart 20 September 2010
review by Reviewer101 from London
Worth a watch 18 June 2010
Kenny Ortega - filmography
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Footloose - Blu-ray
(2011)
Starring: Julianne Hough, Kenny Wormald, Dennis Quaid
Director: Herbert Ross, Kenny Ortega
Certificate: 
HUSTLE AND FLOW director Craig Brewer takes the helm for this remake of the popular 1984 musical romance about a big city teen who moves to a town that's outlawed dancing. Uprooted from Boston and reluctantly transplanted to the small, Bible belt town of Bomont, Ren MacCormack (Kenny Wormald) finds ..read more »

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Footloose
on DVD
(2010)
Starring: Julianne Hough, Kenny Wormald, Dennis Quaid
Director: Kenny Ortega
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Musical remake of the 1984 film that tells the story of Ren McCormack, a teenager, raised in Chicago, who moves to a small town where the local government has banned dancing and rock music. Streetwise Ren must figure out a way to get around the law and revitalize the spirit of the repressed ..read more »

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from 2,994 members
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Michael Jackson - This Is It
on DVD
(2009)
Starring: Michael Jackson, Orianthi
Director: Kenny Ortega
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Michael Jackson takes a final bow in this theatrical concert film featuring rehearsal footage of the late mega star as he practiced for the 100 shows in London that never came to be in this Columbia Pictures release.

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from 8,109 members
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This Is It: The IMAX Experience
(2009)
Starring: Michael Jackson, Orianthi
Director: Kenny Ortega
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This is It has digitally re-mastered into the image and sound quality of The IMAX Experience(R) with proprietary IMAX DMR(R) (Digital Re-mastering) technology. Michael Jackson's This Is It will offer Jackson fans and music lovers a rare, behind-the-scenes look at the performer as he developed, ..read more »

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High School Musical 2
on DVD
(2007)
Starring: Zac Efron, Vanessa Anne Hudgens, Ashley Tisdale
Director: Kenny Ortega
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The High School Musical gang are back in this follow up which finds out what the Wildcat pals get up to in their summer vacation. Troy lands a job working at the Lava Springs Country Club, and once there he also manages to get jobs for the rest of the gang. When the club announces it's having a ..read more »

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High School Musical 2 - Blu-ray
(2007)
Starring: Zac Efron, Corbin Bleu, Monique Coleman
Director: Kenny Ortega
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Schools out for the summer and the East High wildcats are preparing themselves for the harsh reality of finding work for the next three months. Troy, Gabriella, Chad and Taylor land on their feet by scoring jobs at a country club owned family of songsters. A love triangle between Troy, Gabriella ..read more »

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High School Musical
on DVD
(2006)
Starring: Zac Efron, Vanessa-Anne Hudgens, Ashley Tisdale
Director: Kenny Ortega
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Zac Efron and Vanessa Anne Hudgens star in this Disney Channel Original Movie as popular basketball team captain Troy and smart, stunning academic Gabriella. Both shock the members of the social cliques to which they belong when they each decide to audition for the high school's musical. By proving ..read more »

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from 19,299 members
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Cheetah Girls Vol.2
on DVD
(2006)
Starring: Raven Symone, Adrienne Bailon, Sabrina Bryan
Director: Kenny Ortega
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Best friends Galleria (Raven Symone), Chanel (Adrienne Bailon), Dorinda (Sabrina Byran), and Aqua (Kiely Williams), A.K.A. the girl band "The Cheetahs," get the opportunity of a lifetime when they strut their way to Barcelona, Spain, to perform in an international music festival. Along the way, the ..read more »

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from 363 members
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Gloria Estefan - Live At Caesar's Palace
on DVD
(2003)
Starring: Gloria Estefan
Director: Kenny Ortega
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This explosive concert perfectly captures the infectious Latin rhythms of pop diva Gloria Estefan. Recorded at The Colosseum at Caesars Palace in October 2003, LIVE AND UNWRAPPED is designed to compliment the UNWRAPPED album on which the set-list focuses on. An array of older hits are present as ..read more »

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from 114 members
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Hocus Pocus
on DVD
(1993)
Starring: Bette Midler, Kathy Najimy, Sarah Jessica Parker
Director: Kenny Ortega
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The Sanderson Sisters are 17th century witches who were conjured up by unsuspecting pranksters in present-day Salem. The key to their immortality involves three children and a talking cat, who also turn out to be their biggest obstacles.

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