Lionsgate revealed in July that “Dirty Dancing” star Jennifer Gray participates with the studio in an untitled dance film in which she will star and executive producer. But he declined to say whether the task similar to the 1987 hit “Dirty Dancing”.
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Feltheimer said on Thursday’s call that it was actually a “Dirty Dancing” movie.
“And to reveal one of the worst secrets kept in Hollywood, we’re pleased to find that Jennifer Gray will be an executive maker and star in a new movie ‘Dirty Dancing’ for Lionsgate through ‘Warm Bodies’ director Jonathan Levine,” he said. . “This will be precisely the kind of romantic and nostalgic film that franchise enthusiasts were waiting for and that has made it the best-selling library name in the company’s history.”
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Lionsgate announced last year that he had scheduled “John Wick 4” for May 21, 2021, following a strong opening for “John Wick: Chapter 3 – Parabellum”. Feltheimer said the studio had moved “John Wick 4” a year ago and planned to do so consecutively with a fifth installment.
“We’re also busy preparing the scripts for the next two installments of our ‘John Wick’ action franchise, with ‘John Wick 4’ to be released in theaters on Memorial Day weekend in 2022,” he said. “We expect to shoot ‘John Wick 4’ and ‘5’ in a row when Keanu becomes available early next year.”
Feltheimer also stated that Lionsgate had to resume production amid the COVID-19 pandemic.
“With the appetite for new content on record and the characteristics for consumers being reduced due to global closure, we have made it a strategic priority to be one of the first primary studios to resume production,” he said. “Over the more than five months, we have developed a strategy considered to restart production with protocols for the most productive protection of players and equipment.”
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“We recently produced the thriller/terror film ‘The Devil’s Light’ in Eastern Europe, and we are preparing for physical production to begin shooting several more films over the next two months, adding ‘The Unbearable Weight of Massive Talent’ with Nic Cage,” he says. “These efforts put us in a solid position to capitalize on a market that is scarce.”