EXCLUSIVE: A new dance movie with no title is taking shape at Lionsgate, set in the 1990s and starring and produced by an executive. Dirty Dancing Golden Globe Nominee Jennifer Gray. While the details remain silent, there are some rumors that a new Dirty Dancing The film may be in progress. Sources are not confirming, but they are also not putting the idea in a corner.
Lionsgate owns the distribution rights to Dirty Dancing movies, and Gray, of course, played the teenager Baby in that movie falling in love with her Catskills dance instructor Johnny Castle, played by the late Patrick Swayze. The first movie released in 1987 by Vestron racked up $ 218 million at the worldwide box office with a production cost of $ 5M, as well as an Oscar and Golden Globe Award for the original song “(I’ve Had) The Time of My Life” by Frank. Previte, John DeNicola and Donald Markowitz. In the balloons Dirty Dancing She was nominated in the comedy / musical category with winks for Swayze as a comedy / musical actor and Gray as an actress.
Dirty Dancing It was the first movie to sell more than 1 million copies on home video and produced two multi-platinum soundtrack albums. Lionsgate made a sequel in 2004, Dirty Dancing: Havana Nights, starring Diego Luna, Romola Garai, January Jones, John Slattery, and Sela Ward. Nearly $ 28 million was raised worldwide.
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The new dance movie is directed by Jonathan Levine and Gillian Bohrer of Megamix, with a script by Mikki Daughtry and Tobias Iaconis (Five feet apart, The Curse of LLorona) In February, Lionsgate brought the highly anticipated follow-up novel NOW Five feet apart, All this time, by Daughtry and Rachael Lippincott, six figures off the table after various studios were circling. Daughtry and fellow editor Iaconis are adapting and are also executive producers of the feature version of All this time. They and Lippincott adapted the novel. Five feet apart from the script that Daughtry and Iaconis wrote.
Gray recently starred in the Amazon comedy Red oaks Produced by Steven Soderbergh and David Gordon Green. He also starred in the independent film. Together alongside Billy Crystal, Jamie Dornan, Scott Caan and Ben Mendelsohn. Recent TV credits include The Conners and Grey’s Anatomy, as well as his turn in David Milch’s HBO series John of Cincinnati.
Gray is represented by UTA and Untitled Entertainment. Daughtry and Iaconis are represented by David Boxerbaum at Verve, Adam Kolbrenner at Lit Entertainment Group and Mckuin’s attorney Scott Whitehead, Frankel.
