Lionsgate boss confirms new Dirty Dancing movie with Jennifer Grey

EXCLUSIVE: Entertainment PR firm MPRM Communications is restructuring its core leadership team, pressing go on a succession plan with the news that the company’s chairman and co-founder Rachel McCallister is stepping aside after four decades in the industry.

Fox Corp. CEO Lachlan Murdoch sees “a gap in the market for football” that the USFL can exploit when the professional league kicks off its inaugural season on April 16.

Amazon Studios has handed a two-season order to an adult animated comedy series from Emmy-nominated Ramy Youssef and A24. The series is part of a new first-look deal between Amazon Studios and Youssef’s production imprint Cairo Cowboy. The as-yet untitled comedy will exclusively stream on Prime Video in more than 240 countries and territories worldwide.

Each week, we here at Official Charts compile the best and most exciting releases of New Music Friday, to give you a chance to hear the future hits on the Official Singles and Albums Chart. Let's dive in!

Love is in the air for these Love is Blind stars!

When will it stop?!

Making moves — literally! Less than one year after finding love in Mexico, Joe Amabile and Serena Pitt are moving in together in a new city.

For all intents and purposes, Disney is synonymous with Florida. That’s where Disney World is, and that’s kinda where everyone just assumes the corporation does most of its business.

Tim Horton's, the Canadian coffee chain, is set to open its new drive-thru and restaurant in Stirling next week.

Jennifer Hudson's upcoming talk show. «It's interesting. This is show business and the biggest word is business,» he began. «I show up each and every day, bright and early to give you a show and I am also a business man This has been a dream come true. I want to expand and elevate.

Jennifer Garner and Mark Ruffalo's  throwbacks!On Thursday, both Garner and Ruffalo shared videos of them eating Razzles and talking about where their characters, Jenna Rink and Matty Flamhaff, would be today.«Can you believe it’s been 18 years since ,” Garner asks Ruffalo before the two eat some Razzles, noting it's „both a candy and a gum.“A post shared by Mark Ruffalo (@markruffalo)“It’s sort of like Jenna and Matty got together, so they could become parents in the ,” Ruffalo tells Garner, referencing their upcoming film, which stars Walker Scobell, who plays their on-screen child and also appears in the video.  Garner asks their young co-star if he’s ever seen. “Didn’t that movie come out before I was even born?” the 13-year-old actor notes. Garner and Ruffalo have been tapping into all of the nostalgia as of late.

Ben Affleck and Ana de Armas, is set to debut on Hulu on March 18, and only ET has an exclusive sneak peek at the film — in which the former real-life couple play a toxic married pair, whose mind games continue to escalate until there are deadly consequences for those around them.ET's sneak peek sees Vic (Affleck) and Melinda (de Armas) sitting down to dinner with a guest — whose discomfort grows throughout the scene as the couple intentionally push each other's buttons.First, Melinda asks for a bite of their guest's grilled cheese, insisting she doesn't like lobster bisque, which is what Vic cooked for them.«Melinda kind of has the palate of a 12-year-old,» Vic sneers at his wife. «Our first date, I took her to the best restaurant in the city, she ordered mac and cheese.»«It's like he was ashamed to be with me,» Melinda says to their guest, to which Vic snipes back, «No, I just realized you were ordering off the children's menu to save more room for alcohol.»Later, when his wife tells him that she wishes «all the time» that he were more normal, Vic addresses the elephant in the room: «If I were normal, I don't think Joel would be over here having dinner with us.»See the full clip above.

Ryan Coogler has spoken out about an incident that resulted in his brief detainment by police in January. According to a police report obtained by ET, the 35-year-old director stepped into a Bank of America in Atlanta on Jan. 7 wearing a hat, sunglasses and a COVID face mask.

coronavirus has delayed many of the productions, so it might be a while before any of them hit the small and big screens. But here’s an exhaustive list of everything slated to make a comeback soon, whether we asked for it or not.Lionsgate CEO Jon Feltheimer called this sequel “one of the worst kept secrets in Hollywood,” after rumors first swirled in July.

Jennifer Grey is putting on her dancing shoes again. The actress is set to star in and executive produce an untitled dance movie at Lionsgate, ET confirms. Grey, of course, starred opposite Patrick Swayze in 1987's.

If you had a childhood anything at all like mine, you’re well aware of the 1987 romance film, “Dirty Dancing.” Not because you’re obsessed with dance and/or Patrick Swayze (“Roadhouse” is still incredible, FYI), but only because your parents (my mom, in this case) played the hell out of the film during your formative years. It’s one of those movies that some people just put on the TV as comfort food, bringing back nostalgia for a certain time in their life while also imagining what it might be like to have Patrick Swayze hold you over his head in triumph.

They say nobody puts Baby in a corner. But it turns out they do… a lot.

Dirty Dancing is one of —and I dare say all time?The 1987 movie starred as Frances “Baby” Houseman, a sheltered young woman spending the summer of 1963 with her family at a resort in the Catskills where falls in love with Johnny Castle, a sexy dance instructor played by Patrick Swayze. A tip of the hat to the great Jerry Orbach as Baby's doctor dad, too—because when he's wrong he says he's wrong. For a certain generation of women (ahem, mine), it was a deeply formative movie.

Dirty Dancing with its original star Jennifer Grey been announced.The follow-up, set to be released more than 30 years after the first, has been ordered by Lionsgate with Grey, who portrayed Baby in the 1987 film, also serving as an executive producer.Warm Bodies‘ Jonathan Levine and Gillian Bohrer will direct the new film.

John Wick series will have a fifth film which is set to be shot back-to-back with the franchise’s fourth instalment, it’s been confirmed.In an announcement on Thursday (August 6), Lionsgate confirmed the next two films in the Keanu Reeves franchise will begin production in early 2021. According to The Hollywood Reporter, the films were confirmed in a quarterly call by Lionsgate CEO Jon Feltheimer, who said shooting will begin when “Keanu becomes available early next year.”The acclaimed action franchise has made over $579 million internationally since debuting in 2014.

Deadline confirmed this week that the iconic movie is getting a much deserved reboot with none other than Jennifer Grey signed up for the project.Better yet, the actress will also fill the role of producer on the hotly-anticipated release.John Feltheimer, CEO of Lionsgate Films, promises the film will be everything long-time fans have been dreaming of.‘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,’ he enthused.The original film, released in 1987, brought in a whopping $220 million at the worldwide box office, not bad considering its modest $5million budget.Jennifer Grey, now 60, played the lead role of

Lionsgate is expanding two of its key franchises, with a fifth “John Wick” movie and “Dirty Dancing” reboot. Lionsgate CEO Jon Feltheimer revealed the moves on Thursday afternoon during the company’s conference call with Wall Street analysts following the studio’s release of quarterly earnings, which came in above estimates.

Jennifer Grey is set to star in a sequel to classic romantic drama Dirty Dancing, it has been announced.

studio’s release of quarterly earnings, which came in above estimates.Lionsgate revealed in July that “Dirty Dancing” star Jennifer Grey was collaborating with the studio on an untitled dance movie in which she will star and executive produce. But it refused to say if the project was tied to the 1987 hit “Dirty Dancing.”Feltheimer said during Thursday’s call that it was indeed a “Dirty Dancing” movie.“And to reveal one of the worst kept secrets in Hollywood, we’re pleased to confirm that Jennifer Grey will both executive produce and star in a new ‘Dirty Dancing’ movie for Lionsgate from ‘Warm Bodies’ director Jonathan Levine,” he said.

A fifth instalment in the Keanu Reeves-starring John Wick franchise has been confirmed.

It’s time for Baby to come out from the corner.

Dave McNary Film ReporterLionsgate is expanding two of its key franchises, with a fifth “John Wick” movie and “Dirty Dancing” reboot.Lionsgate CEO Jon Feltheimer revealed the moves on Thursday afternoon during the company’s conference call with Wall Street analysts following the studio’s release of quarterly earnings, which came in above estimates.Lionsgate revealed in July that “Dirty Dancing” star Jennifer Grey was collaborating with the studio on an untitled dance movie in which she will star and executive produce.

It has been confirmed that a new Dirty Dancing movie is in the works with Jennifer Grey returning to reprise her role as Frances “Baby” Houseman.

Dominic Patten Senior Editor, Legal & TV CriticComing off windfall global licensing sales of Mad Men last month, Lionsgate is now digging a little deeper into its library to bring Weeds to market later this year.“We’re readying our next big property Weeds for syndication in the fall,” Jon Feltheimer said Thursday after the company’s latest earnings report was released. Seeding the sales ground again, the CEO’s statement picks up on his own remarks last November.

A new “Dirty Dancing” movie is in the works at Lionsgate that will bring back the 1987 original’s star Jennifer Grey to both star and executive produce and that will be directed by Jonathan Levine, Lionsgate announced on its earnings call Thursday.The studio also announced a fifth “John Wick” movie, this one arriving after the planned “John Wick 4” hitting theaters in 2022.

Anthony D'Alessandro Editorial Director/Box Office EditorLionsgate CEO Jon Feltheimer confirmed what we first told you back in mid-July, in what he billed as “one of the worst kept secrets in Hollywood”: Jennifer Grey is starring and executive producing a new Dirty Dancing movie at the mini-major.The new addition here is that Warm Bodies director Jonathan Levine has become attached. Previously, he was shepherding the project with Gillian Bohrer with a screenplay by Mikki Daughtry and Tobias Iaconis (Five Feet Apart, The Curse of La LLorona).The first Dirty Dancing movie was released in 1987 by Vestron and grossed $218 million at the global box office off a $5M production cost.

tracking the company via Yahoo Finance forecasted the media and entertainment company to report earnings of 2 cents per share, and reported revenue of $767.4 million.

Dave McNary Film ReporterLionsgate has reported earnings of $51.1 million, or 23 cents a share, on revenues of $813.7 million for its first fiscal quarter ended June 30 — numbers that were above Wall Street estimates — amid the COVID-19 pandemic.“We’re pleased to report a quarter with strong financial results in which all of our priorities were evident,” said Lionsgate CEO Jon Feltheimer.  “During the quarter we took steps to monetize our film and television library, embraced innovative distribution strategies for our films, and acquired new properties while renewing others.  Most important, it was a quarter in which we used all of our resources to continue growing a unique, valuable and scalable global streaming platform at Starz.”