New ‘Dirty Dancing’ Movie With Jennifer Grey and Director

A brand new “Dirty Dancing” film is within the works at Lionsgate that may deliver again the 1987 authentic’s star Jennifer Grey to each star and government produce and that might be directed by Jonathan Levine, Lionsgate CEO Jon Feltheimer introduced on its earnings name Thursday.

The studio additionally introduced {that a} fifth “John Wick” film, this one arriving after the deliberate “John Wick 4,” will hit theaters in 2022. The studio plans to shoot each films within the motion franchise again to again as quickly as star Keanu Reeves turns into out there.

Rumors of a “Dirty Dancing” remake or reboot have been circulating for a while, even with out the late Patrick Swayze returning. And ABC did a TV film replace on the story again in 2017 starring Abigail Breslin, Sarah Hyland and Colt Prattes.

Levine, identified for “Warm Bodies” and “50/50,” had beforehand been shepherding the mission that had Mikki Daughtry and Tobias Iaconis writing the screenplay.

“It will be exactly the kind of romantic, nostalgic movie that the franchise’s fans have been waiting for and that have made it the biggest-selling library title in the company’s history,” Feltheimer stated Thursday.

The authentic movie, about an adolescent named Baby who spends a weekend along with her household within the Catskills and breaks out of her shell when she begins to study to bop from a rebellious dance teacher, grossed $218.three million worldwide in 1987 and has since grown in reputation.

The third “John Wick” film “Parabellum” from final summer time made $326 million worldwide, and the fourth film is ready to open Memorial Day weekend 2022. Reeves will subsequent be seen in “Bill & Ted Face the Music,” and he’s at the moment taking pictures the fourth “Matrix” movie.