New 'Dirty Dancing' Movie In The Works At Lionsgate With Jennifer Grey Returning To Star
Lionsgate has a new Dirty Dancing movie in the works with the original film's star Jennifer Grey returning to lead the project.
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The Morning Watch: How '1917' Was Made To Look Like A Single Shot, Breaking Down Dancing Scenes In Movies & More
In this edition, learn about the making of 1917 and how the movie appears as one shot, listen as Jenna Dewan reviews dancing scenes, and more.
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'The Karate Kid' And 'Dirty Dancing' Returning To Theaters
Fathom Events is behind both Dirty Dancing and The Karate Kid returning to theaters, the former for Valentine's Day, the latter for its 35th anniversary.
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ABC Remaking 'Dirty Dancing' As A Three-Hour TV Event
ABC is putting together a Dirty Dancing remake as a three-hour TV event that will put Abigail Breslin in the role of Baby once played by Jennifer Grey.
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'Yeah!' Enters The Online Movie Streaming Game With Pop Up Features
Have you ever flipped your TV to a movie and been delighted it was one of those presentations with facts that pop up on the screen? If so, you might want to know about a new site just launched that provides that sort of presentation all the time. The site is called Yeah! and is…
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'Dirty Dancing' Reboot Delayed At Least A Year
Briefly: A remake of the 1987 hit Dirty Dancing has been on the books at Lionsgate since 2009. Two years later, Kenny Ortega was brought on as a director, a screenwriter was hired and finally it was scheduled for a July 2013 release. Turns out casting roles as iconic as Patrick Swayze's and Jennifer Grey's isn't as…
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Kenny Ortega's 'Dirty Dancing' Remake Will Hit Summer 2013
Briefly: We still don't know who'll be stepping into Patrick Swayze and Jennifer Grey's shoes for Kenny Ortega's Dirty Dancing remake, but we know exactly when they try to dance into your hearts. According to Variety, Lionsgate has announced a release date of July 26, 2013 for the updated version of the 1987 romance classic.…
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Casting Bits: Melissa Leo And James Badge Dale In Talks For 'Flight', Kylie Minogue Joins 'Holly Motors', 'Footloose' Star Rumored For 'Dirty Dancing' Remake
Robert Zemeckis is collecting quite a cast for Flight, his return to live-action filmmaking. Oscar winner Melissa Leo and Rubicon star James Badge Dale are the latest additions to the project, which stars Denzel Washington as an alcoholic, drug-addicted pilot who becomes a public hero when he rescues a troubled flight. However, his own issues may…
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Writer Hired For 'Dirty Dancing' Remake
That remake of Dirty Dancing that many have already enthusiastically begun to doubt now has a screenwriter: Maria Maggenti, writer of this summer's Monte Carlo, will pen the screenplay. When we first heard that Lionsgate wanted to remake the film we heard that Julia Dahl (Uptown Girls writer, West Wing writer/story editor) would write the…
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Kenny Ortega To Direct 'Dirty Dancing' Remake
Briefly: Choreographer-turned-director Kenny Ortega directed the first two High School Musical films, the Michael Jackson performance film This Is It, and was set to direct the remake of Footloose before dropping out and leaving room for Craig Brewer to take that project. But Kenny Ortega is now set to remake another well-liked '80s dance film.…
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Lionsgate Planning Dirty Dancing Remake
Just a day after Lionsgate generated some goodwill by picking up the fanboy favorite Kick-Ass, the studio is now alienating a different fanbase entirely by announcing a remake of Dirty Dancing. There's not a lot of info on the project, which was vaguely announced by a tweet from Production Weekly. That said Julia Dahl (Uptown…
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VOTD: Channing Tatum And Charlyne Yi Cinemash Dirty Dancing
Mean Magazine has created a new series of online short films called CineMash, which lets celebrity talent mash up their favorite scenes from classic movies. In past weeks we've posted Sid and Nancy starring Zooey Deschanel and Joseph Gordon-Levitt and directed by Marc Webb (the director of 500 Days of Summer), Cheech & Chong enter…
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Bad Ideas: Spoofing Dance Movies
I thought the first Scary Movie was a smart spoof of the most modern horror genre. But the reinvention of the spoof genre has brought me so much pain and embarrassment. Epic Movie, Not Another Teen Movie, Date Movie, the many Scary Movie sequels - Why do people watch this crap? Whatever reason, it just…
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