Kenny Ortega

Many of the venues had a satellite feed from the Nokia Theater in Los Angeles, where director Kenny Ortega, who had also been in charge of the planned concert, greeted surviving Jackson brothers Jermaine, Marlon, Tito and Jackie. (See...

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...seems to produce only exclamation points of agreement. He's the director of both the concert and the film, and he shepherds Jackson through these rehearsals with a true yes-man's adulation. ("I agree, Michael," he declares after Jackson...

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...the director of the ill-fated concerts and of this documentary. Ortega lovingly mimics Jackson, overplaying his signature big hand gestures, and the superstar laughs. "I love how the stewardesses do it," he says. "I love it!" It's a...

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...Wagner to come up with the title. Stimulated, Inc., Wagner's Burbank, CA media production company, was handpicked by Kenny Ortega, AEG and Jackson to produce the film and video elements for the tour. Wagner was appointed as Producer of...

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...as the UK's biggest ever concert movie. Kenny Ortega, the director of Jackson's tour, said that the showman was also talking about making a full-length 3D film of Thriller before he passed away. Watch tributes and clips from the concert...

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...to working together, and they help each other out. I especially liked it when Ortega told Jackson to "hold on" to the bars on the cherry picker the first time Jackson took a ride on it. Jackson seemed fearless, wanting to take it higher and...

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...album Bad. Jackson, Payne and Ortega alsoeagerly revive the Thriller zombie dance number, which by chance was performed for the first time in full costume at Jackson's final rehearsal, the day before his untimely death. The 28 songs (26...

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...a select group of insiders and family members has seen it, and certainly no critics have. Ortega chalks this up to Jackson's need for opening-night magic. "It was always, Don't ruin the secrets, don't ruin the surprises," says Ortega. "Michael...

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