{"id":63268,"date":"2012-05-11T13:49:18","date_gmt":"2012-05-11T13:49:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/0de2709a84.nxcli.net\/0-kjasnb\/2012\/05\/11\/dirty-dancing-remake-is-at-cannes-seeking-foriegn-sales\/"},"modified":"2018-12-18T10:58:27","modified_gmt":"2018-12-18T10:58:27","slug":"dirty-dancing-remake-is-at-cannes-seeking-foriegn-sales","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.blackfilm.com\/read\/dirty-dancing-remake-is-at-cannes-seeking-foriegn-sales\/","title":{"rendered":"Debra Martin Chase’s Dirty Dancing remake is at Cannes seeking foriegn sales"},"content":{"rendered":"

Debra Martin Chase’s next film, Dirty Dancing remake, looking for int’l buyers at Cannes<\/strong>Posted by Wilson Morales<\/p>\n

May 11, 2012<\/p>\n

Source: The Hollywood Reporter<\/a><\/p>\n

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With a couple of months away before the remake of Sparkle<\/a><\/strong> is released, producer Debra Martin Chase’<\/strong>s next production, a remake of 1987’s Dirty Dancing<\/strong>, is headed for Cannes, where it will be shopped for the first time to foreign buyers.<\/p>\n

Lionsgate International is handling international sales on the film, which Lionsgate opens in the U.S. on July 26, 2013. The cast has yet to be announced.<\/p>\n

Kenny Ortega<\/strong> is directing the updated movie will hit theaters 26 years after the first Dirty Dancing opened in August 1987, becoming a runaway blockbuster and catapulting Jennifer Grey<\/strong> and Patrick Swayze<\/strong> to fame. Ortega (High School Musical) was a choreographer on the original film.<\/p>\n

Martin Chase is producing Dirty Dancing\u00a0 along with Ortega and Alli Shearmur<\/strong>. Brad Falchuk <\/strong>(Glee) and Maria Maggenti <\/strong>wrote the script, which is based on the original film’s screenplay by Eleanor Bergstein<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

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In speaking with Blackfilm.com<\/strong><\/a> last year, Martin Chase stated that “With \u2018Footloose\u2019 coming out in October, and although \u2018A Star is Born\u2019 with Beyond has been delayed for now, the American audience have rediscovered the musicals. With the phenomenal success of \u2018Glee,\u2019 \u2018High School Musica,l\u2019\u00a0 \u2018Chicago\u2019 and \u2018Hairspray,\u2019 it\u2019s pretty clear that people loved them and want more. Just in general, Hollywood is looking to break titles and beloved stories and seeing if there\u2019s a way to freshen them and appeal to the people who loved them and also have something fresh for the people who are discovering them for the first time and \u2018Dirty Dancing\u2019 falls in that category.”<\/p>\n

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Ortega’s film will pay tribute to the classic tale of Baby’s forbidden summer romance with Johnny Castle, while incorporating classic songs from the 1960s, hits from the original film and new compositions.<\/p>\n

Dirty Dancing<\/strong> is part of a flurry of movie titles making their debut at the Marche du Film in Cannnes.<\/p>\n

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