Tag: Dirty Dancing
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Lionsgate Promotes Adam Frank and Jill Anderson to Lead Transactional Home Entertainment Business
Lionsgate has promoted two executives, Adam Frank and Jill Anderson, to lead its transactional home entertainment business.The move comes amid a strong period for Lionsgate’s home entertainment business — which comprises electronic sell-through (download-to-own), video-on-demand and physical media — with an industry market share of 11.9% in the first six months of the year. It’s…
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This Star Wars Actor Starred in ‘Dirty Dancing’s Spiritual Sequel
Dirty Dancing is a timeless classic that has captured audience’s hearts for decades. Patrick Swayze was his typical charismatic, heartthrob self and Jennifer Grey was a charming, endearing underdog. The 80s classic, with its passionate dancing and love story between two unlikely people, has left a long-lasting legacy. However, audiences are less aware that in…
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‘Borderlands’ Sets Summer 2024 Release, ‘Dirty Dancing’ Sequel Delayed as Lionsgate Shuffles Calendar
Lionsgate is making moves to its release calendar, including dating the video game feature Borderlands for summer 2024 and pushing dates for Dirty Dancing sequel and its prequel to Wonder.Borderlands is now set to bow on Aug. 9, 2024. The film hails from director Eli Roth, and also underwent additional photography from Deadpool filmmaker Tim…
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‘Dirty Dancing: Havana Nights’ Choreographer Testifies She Doesn’t Remember Dancer Alleging Harvey Weinstein Sexual Assault
Harvey Weinstein’s defense called on a choreographer from the 2004 film “Dirty Dancing: Havana Nights” to answer questions about a dancer from the movie, who is a witness testifying in the L.A. trial. The dancer has alleged that she was sexually assaulted by Weinstein during production on the musical film, which his company Miramax produced.Choreographer…
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Jennifer Grey Talks Dirty Dancing’s Relevance in a Post-Roe V. Wade World
With both news of a Dirty Dancing sequel beginning production nearly four decades after its release, and in the dawn of a post-Roe v. Wade era, star Jennifer Grey sat down to discuss the film’s frightening relevance to today’s world. In her interview with Entertainment Weekly, the actress who played the film’s starry-eyed good girl,…
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Jennifer Grey: ‘Dirty Dancing’ Sequel Will Be ‘Tricky’ Without Patrick Swayze
Nobody puts Baby in the corner, but can anybody replace Patrick Swayze?“Dirty Dancing” icon Jennifer Grey revealed just how “tricky” it is to make a sequel film without her late co-star Swayze, who died at age 57 of pancreatic cancer in September 2009. Swayze portrayed summer retreat dance instructor Johnny Castle, who falls for camp…
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Lionsgate International to launch Cannes sales on ‘Hunger Games’ prequel, ‘Dirty Dancing’ sequel (exclusive)
Both projects featured at CinemaCon and will be released by Lionsgate in the US.Lionsgate International is understood to be bringing Hunger Games prequel The Ballad Of Songbirds And Snakes and the long-awaited Dirty Dancing sequel to the Cannes market in a few weeks.Lionsgate did not respond for comment however sources have indicated Helen Lee Kim…
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Dirty Dancing sequel starring Jennifer Grey announced 33 years after original
Star of first film will also executive produce follow-up to hit summer romance movie, with Jonathan Levine directingAn official sequel to the hit summer romance movie Dirty Dancing has been announced, 33 years after the first film was released.Jennifer Grey, who starred in the original as Frances “Baby” Houseman, whose summer camp is enlivened by…
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Jennifer Grey Is Working on a New Dance Movie That May Be ‘Dirty Dancing’ Sequel
There may be another “Dirty Dancing” movie in the works.Original star Jennifer Grey is collaborating with Lionsgate on an untitled dance movie in which she will star and executive produce.The studio refuses to comment on whether the project, set in the 1990s, will bring back Grey’s Frances “Baby” Houseman character. “Dirty Dancing” starred Patrick Swayze…
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Ghost at 30: the shock romantic blockbuster that tried to do it all
Patrick Swayze’s unusual star appeal helped make the supernatural romance the biggest hit of 1990 despite being resolutely unhipAmerican cinema has never had a star quite like Patrick Swayze, who now seems like a bridge between eras, redefining masculinity after an 80s dominated by brute-force heroes like Arnold Schwarzenegger, Sylvester Stallone and, to a much…