Hip-hop mogul Jay Z has boarded the film adaptation of Lin-Manuel Miranda's Broadway hit In The Heights as a producer. The Tony Award-winning musical, which follows a group of Latinos living in the Washington Heights neighbourhood of New York City, enjoyed a three-year run on Broadway until 2011, and it is currently being turned into a movie backed by officials at the Weinstein Company. On Saturday (25Feb17), studio co-founder Harvey Weinstein announced the latest development in the project, introducing Jay Z as one of six producers of In The Heights as he and his pregnant wife Beyonce attended the Weinstein Company's pre-Oscars party at the Montage in Beverly Hills, California, reports the New York Post's Page Six. Miranda was also present at the bash, which featured a performance medley of In The Heights tunes by Broadway stars Cynthia Erivo, Corbin Bleu and Christopher Jackson. G.I. Joe: Retaliation filmm...
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