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Lionsgate 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. Warm Bodies director Jonathan Levine is shepherding the project with Gillian…

EXCLUSIVE: A new untitled dance movie is taking shape at Lionsgate, set in the 1990s and starring and executive produced by Dirty Dancing Golden Globe nominee Jennifer Grey. While details are being kept quiet, there’s some rumblings that a new Dirty Dancing movie could be in the works. Sources aren't confirming, but…

Call it the battle of the Dirty Dancing fans. The 1987 summer sleeper smash starring Patrick Swayze and Jennifer Grey suddenly is the hottest movie on the Net. At least for today. Lionsgate Live! A Night at the Movies has chosen the pic for their communal theatrical experience tonight, streaming for free on the studio…

Gregg Smith, an actor and dancer whose three-decade collaboration with director and choreographer Kenny Ortega included casting dancers for such films and TV productions as Dirty Dancing, Newsies, Hocus Pocus, Ferris Bueller’s Day Off, Pretty in Pink, To Wong Fu, Thanks For Everything! Julie Newmar and various Oscar…

The NBA Playoffs had a night off on Wednesday but there was a lot of action on the television court with finales for Empire (2.4/9), Arrow (0.6/2), Survivor (1.9/8), Shots Fired (0.9/4), The 100 (0.3/1) and Law & Order: Special Victims Unit (1.3/5) on the last official day of this year's season. With explosions…

ABC has set its midseason premiere dates, slotting miniseries When We Rise, drama series Time After Time,  comedy Imaginary Mary, event movie Dirty Dancing, as well as returning drama series The Catch and American Crime, and the spring returns of Once Upon A Time and Designated Survivor. New comedy Downward Dog…

Sons of Anarchy alum Katey Sagal has joined the cast of ABC's three-hour remake of Dirty Dancing. She will play “bungalow bunny” Vivian Pressman, a former beauty queen who likes to seduce younger male staff members like Johnny (Colt Prattes) at the Kellerman resort. Recently divorced and fabulously wealthy, Vivian…

Trevor Einhorn has joined the cast of ABC’s three-hour remake of Dirty Dancing. He will play Neil Kellerman, heir to the Kellerman resort in the Catskills where the early 1960s-set story takes place. Neil, played by Lonny Price in the 1987 original movie, is skinny, awkward and tightly wound. But what he lacks in…

EXCLUSIVE: Actor-dancer-choreographer Beau “Casper” Smart (Step Up 3D) has been cast as Billy Kotsecki in Dirty Dancing, ABC's three-hour remake of the hit Patrick Swayze-Jennifer Grey movie. The role was played by Neal Jones in the original film. In addition, J. Quinton Johnson has signed on as Marco, the lead singer…

Dirty Dancing has found its bandleader. Star Wars‘ Billy Dee Williams has been cast as Tito in Dirty Dancing, ABC's three-hour remake of the hit Patrick Swayze-Jennifer Grey movie. The role was played by Charles ‘Honi’ Coles in the original film. Like the 1987 feature, ABC's Dirty Dancing movie centers on Baby…

In a dash of corporate synergy, ABC’s Modern Family co-star Sarah Hyland has been cast as Lisa Houseman opposite Abigail Breslin’s Baby in Dirty Dancing, the network's three-hour remake of the hit Patrick Swayze-Jennifer Grey movie. The Lisa role was played by Jane Brucker in the original film. Like the 1987 feature…

Johnny has found his dance partner. Nicole Scherzinger has been cast as Penny, Johnny’s (Cole Prattes) dance partner in ABC/Lionsgate TV's Dirty Dancing, taking on the role played by Cynthia Rhodes in the original film. Like the 1987 Patrick Swayze-Jennifer Grey feature, ABC's three-hour Dirty Dancing movie centers on…