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No Me Diga! Universal Pictures Drops Plans to Bring In the Heights to Big Screen by Broadway.com Staff

Broadway fans hoping to see Usnavi and his Washington Heights friends on the big screen may need to sit tight. Universal Pictures has dropped their plans to bring the Tony-winning musical In the Heights to the big screen, according to Deadline.com. The report says that the film’s $37 million budget was deemed to risky once the project failed to attract popular Latino actors in small roles. “I have had …

SOURCE: Broadway.com at 09:44PM on March 28, 2011

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