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This Jenna Ortega Misfire Is the Streaming Hit Nobody Predicted

2026-02-08 00:41
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This Jenna Ortega Misfire Is the Streaming Hit Nobody Predicted

Hurry Up Tomorrow, the worst movie in Jenna Ortega's career so far, is a surprise streaming hit. Here's everything you should know.

The Worst Movie of Jenna Ortega's Career Is a Surprise Streaming Hit Jenna Ortega on the red carpet Jenna Ortega on the red carpetDave Starbuck/Future Image/Cover Images 4 By  Jake Hodges Published Feb 7, 2026, 7:41 PM EST In over three years at Collider, senior author Jake has now penned over 2500 articles covering a wide range of TV and film for the resources, lists, utilities, news, and interview teams. Alongside interviewing stars such as Selin Hizli, Rose Ayling-Ellis, Harlan Coben, and Chelsea Peretti, Jake was lucky enough to visit the set of Aardman and Netflix's Wallace and Gromit: A Vengeance Most Fowl in 2024, getting the chance to chat with four-time Academy Award winner Nick Park and Merlin Crossingham. Jake has also worked for other publications, including Agents of Fandom.  Sign in to your Collider account Add Us On follow Follow followed Followed Like Like Thread Log in Here is a fact-based summary of the story contents: Try something different: Show me the facts Explain it like I’m 5 Give me a lighthearted recap

From her starring role in the legacy sequel Beetlejuice Beetlejuice to turning Wednesday Addams into the role she was born to play on Netflix, Jenna Ortega has had an impressive rise to stardom in her first few years on-screen. However, as is the case with most young actors learning their trade, she has also been part of some disappointing projects. In 2025, both of Ortega's big-screen releases were frustrating let-downs, although the wasted potential of the underwhelming horror fantasy flick Death of a Unicorn looks like a stroke of genius compared to her other flop, Hurry Up Tomorrow.

Starring Ortega alongside Abel "The Weeknd" Tesfaye, Hurry Up Tomorrow promised to be a mind-bending thriller following "a musician plagued by insomnia is pulled into an odyssey with a stranger who begins to unravel the very core of his existence." Instead, fans received one of the worst movies of the year, with critics awarding the film a dismal 14% on review aggregator Rotten Tomatoes, hilariously writing, "On second thought, let's fast-forward to the workweek." In Jeff Ewing's review of the movie for Collider, he wrote, "Characters aren't given sufficient depth, story beats are repetitive (we get it, you're stressed walking out to perform), and it's too late by the time it gets going in the final act."

Despite all of this, Hurry Up Tomorrow has found itself some streaming success this February, becoming one of the ten most-streamed movies on Starz in the U.S. In fact, at the time of writing, the film is the second-most-streamed title behind Nnamdi Asomugha's 2025 drama, The Knife. Directed by Trey Edward Shults (It Comes at Night), Hurry Up Tomorrow is the lowest-scoring project across film and TV in Ortega's career to date, according to Rotten Tomatoes.

Could 'Hurry Up Tomorrow' Find Box Office Success?

Hurry Up Tomorrow wasn't just one of the worst-reviewed movies of 2025; it was also one of the biggest box office flops of the year. Against a reported production budget of $15 million, the film returned just $7.7 million worldwide. In U.S. theaters, the movie opened in over 2,000 locations in a highly underwhelming first weekend. So bad was this opening that, in just two weeks, the movie had been dropped from almost every location, finally playing in 124 theaters before data stopped being produced by its fourth weekend.

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Like Follow Followed R Thriller Music Release Date May 16, 2025 Runtime 106 minutes Director Trey Edward Shults Writers Reza Fahim, Trey Edward Shults, The Weeknd Producers Kevin Turen, The Weeknd, Harrison Kreiss

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