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The director who brought you all those High School Musical movies and also the Michael Jackson’s rehearsal footage, This Is It, Kenny Ortega may not helming FOOTLOOSE the remake, but he’s got himself another musical gig in the pocket. According to Variety, Ortega is set to direct the big screen version of IN THE HEIGHTS. The Tony Award winning broadway is a musical with music and lyrics by Lin-Manuel Miranda and a book by Quiara Alegría Hudes. The story explores three days in the characters’ lives in the New York City Dominican-American neighborhood of Washington Heights with the score featuring hip-hop, salsa, merengue and soul music… Read the rest of this entry »

The director who brought Disney fans everywhere High School Musical movies, Kenny Ortega recently said farewell to the project FOOTLOOSE the remake because of disagreements with Paramount. Ortega wanted it to be a vibrant elaborate musical, brightly colored tale, while the studio wanted it to be more dramatic with less emphasis on the music, which I think doesn’t make sense, why the hell remake a FOOTLOOSE movie in the first place if it’s not going to be straight up musical?.. Read the rest of this entry »

Director Kenny Ortega thought his upcoming success, the Michael Jackson Concert rehearsal movie, THIS IS IT, will give him the respect he’s looking for but the opposite is what’s happening, concerning another project which has had his name attached for a while. Variety says Ortega has exited FOOTLOOSE the remake due to creative differences. Usually the report would end there leaving the rest of us wondering what happened but in this case, it’s clear to see whose fault it is… Read the rest of this entry »