Corey Hawkins is joining the film adaption of musical In the Heights cast as one of its lead characters: Benny, a young man who works at the taxi dispatch office and dreams of opening his own business. The best friend of Anthony Ramos’ lead character Usnavi, Benny is in love with Nina, the girl-next-door who […]
Warner Bros. Pictures has won a bidding war over several other studios for the rights to the film adaptation of Lin-Manuel Miranda’s Tony Award-winning stage musical In the Heights. Set in Washington Heights in New York City, the story focuses on a bodega owner who’s closing his store and retiring to the Dominican Republic after inheriting […]
According to The Hollywood Reporter, Jon M. Chu (G.I. Joe: Retaliation, Step Up 2: The Streets, Jem and the Holograms) is in talks to direct an In the Streets movie adaptation for The Weinstein Company, based on the hit Broadway show by Lin-Manuel Miranda (“Hamilton,” Star Wars: The Force Awakens). Chu, whose Now You See […]
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