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.
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