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.
10 Best Musicals of the 2010s, From ‘Pitch Perfect’ to ‘Rocketman’ (Photos)
Who says the musical is useless? The final 10 years have been jam-packed with effervescent, hilarious and melancholy film musicals for moviegoers of each variety. Whether they incorporate their songs magically into the narrative or just break at each attainable flip for an additional gangbusters efficiency, these movies stored a tune in our hearts and married their great tunes to memorable, generally fully unforgettable storylines. To every of those unbelievable movies we are saying, “Bravo.”
Runners-Up (alphabetically): “Anna and the Apocalypse,” “Get On Up,” “Frozen,” “Jem and the Holograms,” “The Last Five Years,” “London Road,” “The Lure,” “Moana,” “Pitch Perfect 2,” “Tangled”
10. “The Greatest Showman” (2017)
The lifetime of circus entrepreneur P.T. Barnum was nowhere close to as sappy and sanitized because it seems in Michael Gracey’s “The Greatest Showman.” But then once more, promoting tickets to see an entertaining lie as a result of the reality is inconvenient and/or grotesque is fully consistent with Barnum’s modus operandi. Hugh Jackman smarms his manner by means of a string of dazzling, show-stopping numbers in regards to the significance of following your goals, as his crew of sideshow performers discover their very own voices by embracing the very qualities that made them in any other case ostracized. It’s undeniably charming and catchy musical filmmaking; simply don’t overlook to take all of it with a mountainous grain of salt.
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9. “Pitch Perfect” (2012)
It’s fairly daring for any film to name itself “Pitch Perfect,” however Jason Moore’s movie will get away with it. This completely pleasant school comedy stars Anna Kendrick as a promising DJ who’s pressured to affix a disgraced a cappella group and finally helps rework their old school sound right into a daring, fashionable new musical group with highly effective bonds which can be cast by means of aggravating friendships. The preparations are a…