'Dirty Dancing' sequel starring Jennifer Grey confirmed 33 years after original

Can you believe it has been 33 years since Baby just carried a watermelon and Johnny made our hearts skip a beat as he jumped off the stage to Bill Medley and Jennifer Warnes' 'Time Of My Life'?

Emile Ardolino's Dirty Dancing was the perfect mix of romance, comedy, dance, and Patrick Swayze, and, per Deadline, the movie grossed $218 million at the global box office from just a $5 million production cost.

Let's just enjoy that final dance number one more time:

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Now, Lionsgate CEO Jon Feltheimer has confirmed that actress Jennifer Grey will be returning to star and executive produce in a new Dirty Dancing sequel.

During yesterday's earnings call, Feltheimer said:

"It will be exactly the kind of romantic, nostalgic movie that the franchise's fans have been waiting for and that have made it the biggest-selling library title in the Company's history."

Very litter is known about plot of the sequel, but we do know that it will be directed by Jonathan Levine (Long Shot, 50/50).

Tragically, Patrick Swayze passed away back in 2009 of pancreatic cancer. He was just 57 years old.

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And despite multiple reports that Swayze and Grey did not get along on the set of the movie, back in 2018, she revealed what it was really like working with the heartthrob.

Speaking to The Hollywood Reporter, Grey - now 60 - said: "It was our second movie we’d done together within a short time. We did Red Dawn first and then Dirty Dancing. He was a great dancer and he was fearless.

"His fearlessness with my fearfulness - like his lack of Jewishness and my super Jewishness — together was like a marriage where you have two opposites. He'd do anything and I'd be scared to do anything."

She also added: "[Swayze] smelled really good, his skin was really nice. He was really strong and he was very protective and his heart was very much in it."

Back in 2004, a spinoff movie called Dirty Dancing: Havana Nights was released. Set five years before the original and set in Cuba, it received moderate reviews.