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Nzingha Stewart To Helm Misty Copeland Biopic At New Line
Filmmaker Nzingha Stewart has been tapped to direct Life in Motion: An Unlikely Ballerina, the New Line biopic about Misty Copeland, the first African American woman to be promoted to principal dancer with the prestigious American Ballet Theatre. Michelle Rosenfarb is writing the screenplay based on Copeland’s…
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Misty Copeland To Guest Judge On NBC’s ‘World Of Dance’
Ballet superstar Misty Copeland is set to be a guest judge on two episodes of NBC’s new competition series World of Dance.
She will join for the July 18 and July 25 episodes, during Round 3 of the competition “The Cut,” during which the competitors face the deepest and most intense cut of the season. More than half of…
Sandra Oh & Misty Copeland To Guest Star On ‘Peg + Cat’ PBS Kids Series
Grey’s Anatomy alumna Sandra Oh and ballet star Misty Copeland will lend their voices as guest stars in separate episodes of PBS Kids animated preschool series Peg + Cat.
Oh will reprise her role as president of the United States in the October 4 episode, following the October 3 premiere of The Peg + Cat Mystery Hour…
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Misty Copeland Joins Disney’s ‘Nutcracker’ Movie
Ballet star Misty Copeland just unveiled that she is joining the cast of Disney’s The Nutcracker and the Four Realms, the Lasse Hallstrom-directed pic based on the famed story. The live-action pic is being penned by Ashleigh Powell. Copeland will play the lead ballerina role in the film’s sole dance sequence.
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Ballerina Misty Copeland’s Life Story To Big Screen; New Line Sets ‘Remember The Titans’ Scribe Gregory Allen Howard
EXCLUSIVE: New Line has acquired Life In Motion: An Unlikely Ballerina, and has set Remember the Titans scribe Gregory Allen Howard to adapt the biography of Misty Copeland. She made history by becoming the first African American woman to be promoted to principal dancer with the prestigious American Ballet Theatre…
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Top Ballerina Misty Copeland To Produce Dance Drama For Fox With Tracy Oliver
UPDATED: Misty Copeland, who broke barriers and defied convention to emerge as a ballet superstar, has teamed with rising writer Tracy Oliver for a drama set in the world of dance. The untitled project, which has been set up at Fox through 20th Century Fox TV, follows a young, hip and diverse group of aspiring dancers…
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Broadway Box Office Wilts Overall, While Ballet’s Misty Copeland Leaps In Debut
Broadway box office wilted by about 3% to $21.7M during last week’s dog days, with only a few shows breezing through the summer heat. The arrival of ballet star Misty Copeland to On The Town, in her Broadway debut, sent the show’s box office leaping over its previous week by $519K for a total of $914K. That’s still…
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‘Blind Side’ Meets Ballet: New Line Eyes Biopic Of Dance Star Misty Copeland
EXCLUSIVE: New Line Cinema has optioned the inspirational true story of ballet prodigy Misty Copeland, who fought against the odds to become the only the second African-American female soloist to dance with the prestigious American Ballet Theatre. Offspring Entertainment’s Adam Shankman and Jennifer Gibgot alongside…
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