A new untitled dance film is taking shape at Lionsgate, set in the 1990s and starring and produced by Golden Globe nominee “Dirty Dancing” Jennifer Gray. While the details are kept quiet, there are some rumors that a new “Dirty Dancing” movie may be in the works. Sources are not confirming, but they are also not putting the idea in a corner.
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Lionsgate owns the distribution rights to the “Dirty Dancing” movies, and Gray, 60, 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. On the Balloons, “Dirty Dancing ‘” was nominated in the comedy / musical category with winks for Swayze as a comedy / musical actor and Gray as an actress.
“Dirty Dancing” was the first movie to sell more than 1 million copies on home videos and produced two albums of multi-platinum soundtracks. 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 La LLorona”). In February, Lionsgate brought the highly anticipated YA follow-up novel to Daughtry and Rachael Lippincott’s “Five Feet Apart,” “This This Time” off the table for six figures after various studios were circling. Daughtry and her writing partner Iaconis are adapting and are also executive producers on the film 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” executive produced by Steven Soderbergh and David Gordon Green. He also starred in the independent film “Untogether” alongside Billy Crystal, Jamie Dornan, Scott Caan and Ben Mendelsohn. Recent television credits include “The Conners” and “Grey’s Anatomy,” as well as his performance in HBO’s David Milch series “John From Cincinnati.”
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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.