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EXCLUSIVE: Long Shot and Warm Bodies filmmaker Jonathan Levine has been set to direct the buzzed-about sequel to beloved 1987 movie Dirty Dancing, which Lionsgate is launching for next week’s Cannes market. In an exclusive interview with Deadline, Levine discussed the hot market package and revealed details about the…

EXCLUSIVE: Jonathan Levine (Nine Perfect Strangers) has been tapped to direct the pilot and executive produce Hulu series Tell Me Lies, based on Carola Lovering's novel. Additionally, Gabriella Pession (Station 19), Edmund Donovan (Gossip Girl) and Natalee Linez (Power Book III: Raising Kanan) have been cast in…

Warm Bodies helmer Jonathan Levine is set to direct all eight episodes of Hulu’s anticipated tentpole limited series Nine Perfect Strangers, starring Nicole Kidman, Melissa McCarthy, Samara Weaving, Luke Evans, Melvin Gregg, Grace Van Patten, Manny Jacinto and Tiffany Boone. Levine also will executive produce the…

Chappel McCollister has been hired as senior vice president of Strategic Partnerships at Paradigm Talent Agency. McCollister will be based in the agency’s Nashville office and represent music clients with a focus on the Nashville roster across a range of areas, including brand & corporate partnerships, premium VIP…

Lionsgate has entered a first-look film and television deal with helmer Jonathan Levine, director of the Seth Rogen and Charlize Theron-led romantic comedy, Long Shot, which will hit theaters this weekend. Under the deal, Levine and his partner Gillian Bohrer will base their new production company Megamix at the…

“I didn’t want to talk I’m too drunk,” said director Jonathan Levine after the screening of the world premiere of his film Long Shot on Saturday at SXSW. Levine, who was joined on the stage by stars Charlize Theron, Seth Rogen, O’Shea Jackson, June Diane Raphael and Ravi Patel, admitted that he was nervous that no one…

Director Jonathan Levine will team with Black-ish creator Kenya Barris on a sequel to Eddie Murphy’s 1988 hit Coming to America, Deadline has confirmed. Barris will rewrite a Barry Blaustein & David Sheffield script. Murphy is expected to reprise his role for the Paramount sequel, though nothing’s been…

Charlize Theron and Seth Rogen are set to star in and produce Flarsky, a comedy feature written by Dan Sterling and directed by Jonathan Levine. It centers on an unemployed journalist (Rogen), battered by his own misfortune and self-destructive ways, who endeavors to pursue his childhood crush and babysitter who now…

EXCLUSIVE: BET, coming off ratings records for its New Edition miniseries, has given the green light to another music-infused period scripted project based on the story of a famous performer. The network has ordered a pilot for Street Dreams, an hourlong series from Rush creator Jonathan Levine. It is executive…

Fox has bought Miami-set drama 305, from Endemol Shine Studios, with a script commitment plus penalty. Written by Sascha Penn (Survivor’s Remorse) and directed by Jonathan Levine (Warm Bodies), 305 — named after the Miami area code — is executive produced by Miami-born-and-raised rapper Armando Perez, known by his…

EXCLUSIVE: Warm Bodies helmer Jonathan Levine has been offered and is in early talks to direct the Fox film that Amy Schumer hopes to make her follow-up to the summer hit Trainwreck. The film's an untitled mother-daughter relationship story that takes place on a vacation gone wrong. It was scripted by Katie Dippold…

Welcome, extremely fun people. A Very Harold And Kumar Christmas finally has the perfect double feature companion for when you’re completely blotto during the holidays and need something to watch, and of course it’s from the other reigning kings of stoner comedy. Sony Pictures gives you The Night Before, a drug fueled…