Ortega directed Michael Jackson's This Is It, a posthumous documentary giving fans a look at MJ's final show preparations ...

Kenny Ortega, director of Michael Jackson's This Is It, opened up about a major lesson he learned from the King of Pop.Billie ...

Ortega directed Michael Jackson's This Is It, a posthumous documentary giving fans a look at MJ's final show preparations ...

Director Kenny Ortega talks with PEOPLE exclusively about creating Disney magic again with 'Descendants,' years after the ...

Those are the words of director Kenny Ortega speaking of Michael Jackson as they collaborated on Jackson's "This Is It" production. Yet weeks into rehearsals, Ortega said, the star's condition ...

‘MICHAEL JACKSON’S This Is It” was not supposed to be it. “I am sorry there had to be a movie,” says Kenny Ortega of his latest feature-length film.

The rehearsal occurred six days before Jackson died in June 2009, Kenny Ortega testified during a negligence lawsuit filed by Jackson’s mother against AEG Live LLC, the promoter of the concerts.

Director Kenny Ortega arrives at the opening night of the Michael Jackson The Immortal World Tour in Los Angeles. Murray was “intense” while Phillips was more of a “bystander,” Ortega said.

“I had more than serious concern. I didn’t think it was going to go on,” Kenny Ortega told jurors hearing a wrongful death case brought against promoter AEG Live by Jackson’s mom and kids.

But the litigation against Michael Jackson’s doctor, Conrad Murray, in the death of the pop superstar has brought Kenny Ortega to the witness stand.

On June 25, Michael Jackson's longtime collaborator Kenny Ortega had little time to comprehend his friend's death, let alone grieve over it. Hollywood's hottest choreographer-director ...

Kenny Ortega, who directed the Michael Jackson documentary ‘This Is It,’ has signed on to direct the film version of the Tony-winning Broadway musical ‘In the Heights,’ Playbill reports.