This Jenna Ortega Misfire Is the Streaming Hit No one Predicted

From her starring position within the legacy sequel Beetlejuice Beetlejuice to turning Wednesday Addams into the position she was born to play on Netflix, Jenna Ortega has had a formidable rise to stardom in her first few years on-screen. Nonetheless, as is the case with most younger actors studying their commerce, she has additionally been a part of some disappointing tasks. In 2025, each of Ortega’s big-screen releases have been irritating let-downs, though the wasted potential of the underwhelming horror fantasy flick Dying of a Unicorn appears like a stroke of genius in comparison with her different flop, Hurry Up Tomorrow.

Starring Ortega alongside Abel “The Weeknd” Tesfaye, Hurry Up Tomorrow promised to be a mind-bending thriller following “a musician stricken by insomnia is pulled into an odyssey with a stranger who begins to unravel the very core of his existence.” As an alternative, followers obtained one of many worst films of the yrwith critics awarding the movie a dismal 14% on overview aggregator Rotten Tomatoes, hilariously writing, “On second thought, let’s fast-forward to the workweek.” In Jeff Ewing‘s overview of the film for Colliderhe wrote, “Characters aren’t given enough depth, story beats are repetitive (we get it, you are pressured strolling out to carry out), and it is too late by the point it will get going within the ultimate act.”

Regardless of all of this, Hurry Up Tomorrow has discovered itself some streaming success this February, changing into one of many ten most-streamed films on Starz within the U.S. In truth, on the time of writing, the movie is the second-most-streamed title behind Nnamdi Asomugha‘s 2025 drama, The Knife. Directed by Trey Edward Shults (It Comes at Evening), Hurry Up Tomorrow is the lowest-scoring undertaking throughout movie and TV in Ortega’s profession so far, in line with Rotten Tomatoes.

Might ‘Hurry Up Tomorrow’ Discover Field Workplace Success?

Hurry Up Tomorrow wasn’t simply one of many worst-reviewed films of 2025; it was additionally one of many largest field workplace flops of the yr. In opposition to a reported manufacturing funds of $15 million, the movie returned simply $7.7 million worldwide. In U.S. theaters, the film opened in over 2,000 areas in a extremely underwhelming first weekend. So dangerous was this opening that, in simply two weeks, the film had been dropped from nearly each location, lastly enjoying in 124 theaters earlier than information stopped being produced by its fourth weekend.

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