After winning the films rights to Lin-Manuel Miranda and Quiara Alegría Hudes’ Tony-winning musical In the Heights in a heated auction for an estimated $50M, Warner Bros. has set a date for the feature adaptation directed by Jon M. Chu of June 26, 2020 in what will be positioned as a mass-appealing family musical…

EXCLUSIVE: Warner Bros is closing a $50 million deal to score film rights to In the Heights, the Tony-winning musical from Lin-Manuel Miranda and Quiara Alegría Hudes. The property been the subject of a hot auction after it was extracted from the The Weinstein Company ahead of its bankruptcy. Bidders for the project…

EXCLUSIVE: In the Heights, the movie adaptation of the Tony-winning stage musical by Hamilton's Lin-Manuel Miranda and Quiara Alegría Hudes, is the hot auction project du jour. Jon M. Chu, who directed the upcoming Crazy Rich Asians, today completes pitching all the studios.  Hudes, who wrote the script, pitched…

EXCLUSIVE: In the Heights, the movie adaptation of the Tony-winning stage musical by Hamilton‘s Lin-Manuel Miranda and Quiara Alegría Hudes, has gotten clear of The Weinstein Company. This comes months after its creators demanded back the property following the Harvey Weinstein alleged sexual assault scandal bared in…

In the Heights creators Quiara Alegría Hudes and Lin-Manuel Miranda are calling on the embattled Weinstein Company to give up its movie rights to the Tony-winning musical, citing the widening Harvey Weinstein sexual abuse scandal.   Miranda told Deadline last year that Hudes — who wrote the book for In the Heights…

EXCLUSIVE: In a week where Lin-Manuel Miranda had the number one movie in Moana, the number one album with The Hamilton Mixtape and the top Broadway show in Hamilton, he has set a big animated film project to follow Moana. Sony Pictures Animation chief Kristine Belson has fast tracked Vivo, a film that will be…