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The visceral reaction was almost instant. In 2008, Jon M. Chu was working on his big directorial feature debut Step Up 2: The Streets, when his choreographer Luis Salgado invited him to New York to watch a Broadway musical he was in called In the Heights. "I'd never heard of Lin- Manuel Miranda, but when I saw it, my…

After director Jon Chu responded to the lack of Afro-Latinx representation in his feature musical In the Heights, the film’s composer/ lyricist/producer and co-scribe and star Lin-Manuel Miranda has weighed in with a public apology on social media. “I'm seeing the discussion around Afro-Latinx representation in our…

It’s a very In The Heights week for Deadline’s New Hollywood Podcast. Earlier this week, we had star Anthony Ramos as a guest and, in a bonus episode, we welcome In The Heights director Jon M. Chu as well as the music man who created the original Tony-winning musical, Lin-Manuel Miranda. In the Heights, which opens in…

Before Hamilton, Lin-Manuel Miranda had another Tony-winning smash on Broadway in 2008 with his heartfelt and personal tribute to “home.” In the Heights, in which he starred, now has been turned into a dazzling, dance-filled movie shot in the heart of NYC’s Washington Heights, a 40-block area starting at 155th Street…

This year, Asian American Pacific Islander Heritage Month comes at a peculiar time where members of the community are simultaneously celebrated and attacked. In April Chloé Zhao and Yuh-Jung Youn made Oscars history, less than a week after an Indianapolis shooter killed four members of the Sikh community, and nearly a…

The Paley Center for Media will assemble a number of notable Asian American personalities in various industries from entertainment to sports to discuss how media can help stop the spread of anti-Asian and anti-Asian American hate. The panel, titled “Media’s Role In Combating Hate and Violence Towards Asians and…

Warner Bros. has released not one, but two emotionally-charged trailers to the forthcoming big screen adaptation of Lin-Manuel Miranda and Quiara Alegría Hudes’s Tony Award-winning musical that gives us the hope, love and energy of the Latinx community and the American dream. The movie musical directed by Jon M. Chu…

EXCLUSIVE: Jon M. Chu is set to direct The Great Chinese Art Heist for Warner Bros. based on the GQ article by Alex W. Palmer. The studio is currently out to a writer who will adapt for the big screen. Producers are Chu and Lance Johnson’s Electric Somewhere and Agnes Chu, Will Welch, Geneva Waserman of GQ…

EXCLUSIVE: After adapting Lin Manuel-Miranda’s In the Heights for Warner Bros, Jon M. Chu has his sights set on adapting one of Broadway’s biggest hits. Sources tell Deadline that Chu will direct Universal's Wicked, the feature-film adaptation of the record-breaking musical phenomenon that is in its 17th smash-hit…

Crazy Rich Asians and In The Heights director Jon M. Chu has stepped down from directing the pilot for Disney+’s upcoming series, Willow. The filmmaker announced his exit on Monday afternoon, noting that he’s “heartbroken” to step away from the project. “With the production schedule moving due to continued lockdowns…

Ron Moore and Jon M. Chu are developing a television remake of Swiss Family Robinson for Disney+. The series, which is based on the 1960 film of the same name, follows a shipwrecked family who build a home on a deserted island. Outlander’s Ron Moore is writing and exec producing. The film, which came out in 1960…

The Willow television adaptation has been handed a series order at Disney+. Crazy Rich Asians director Jon M. Chu will direct the pilot for the series, which is slated to begin production next year. This comes 18 months after news of the development of the adaptation of the movie, directed by Ron Howard from a story…