"Dirty Dancing" Sequel Gets 2024 Release Date

Lionsgate announced Wednesday that the sequel to 1987's movie "Dirty Dancing" will hit theaters on February 9, 2024.

The 1987 classic followed Frances “Baby” Houseman (Jennifer Grey) as she spent the summer with her family at Kellerman’s resort. During her stay, she falls in love with the camp’s dance instructor Johnny Castle (Patrick Swayze).

The sequel is directed by Jonathan Levine from a screenplay by Elizabeth Chomko, Jonathan Levine, Mikki Daughtry, and Tobias Iaconis.

It will feature Grey reprising her role as Baby and take the audience back to Kellerman’s Resort for a story of summer, young romance, and dancing.

The sequel premieres on the pre-Valentine’s Day weekend and right now Universal has an untitled animation movie on the calendar.

In addition, Lionsgate’s movie adaptation of Judy Blume’s 1970 novel "Are You There God? It’s Me, Margaret" will now open on April 28, 2023, instead of Sept. 16 this year. Universal recently moved DreamWorks’ "Distant" off that date to Jan. 27, 2023.

The movie follows 11-year-old Margaret (Abby Ryder Fortson) uprooted from her life in New York City for the suburbs of New Jersey, going through the messy and tumultuous throes of puberty with new friends in a new school.

She relies on her mother, Barbara (Rachel McAdams), who is also struggling to adjust to her life, and her adoring grandmother, Sylvia (Kathy Bates), who isn’t happy with the decision.

The movie also stars Benny Safdie (Licorice Pizza, Good Time). James L. Brooks and his Gracie Films produces.

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Lionsgate also dated for the true movement movie "Jesus Revolution" for Feb. 24, 2023. On that date, Universal has Cocaine Bear slotted.

The Jon Erwin-Brent McCorkle-directed movie tells the story of a young Greg Laurie (Joel Courtney) being raised by his struggling mother, Charlene (Kimberly Williams-Paisley) in the 1970s.

Laurie and dozens of young people go to sunny Southern California to redefine truth through all means of liberation. She meets by a twist of fate charismatic hippie Lonnie Frisbee (Jonathan Roumie), and Pastor Chuck Smith (Kelsey Grammer), who have thrown open the doors of Smith’s languishing church to a stream of wandering youth.