Jon M. Chu Responds To Accusations of 'White Washing' Afro-Latinx Roles in 'In The Heights'

There were great expectations for “In the Heights”, the pandemic-delayed movie musical based on Lin-Manuel Miranda’s pre-“Hamilton” Broadway hit.

In a Twitter post last night, Lin-Manuel Miranda, creator, and writer of the Broadway musical “In The Heights,” on which the Jon M. Chu-directed film of the same name is based, posted an apology in response to discussions of the film’s colorism from audiences and critics.

Lights up on Washington Heights! Lin-Manuel Miranda‘s first Tony-winning Broadway musical, In the Heights, is set to jumpstart the careers of its fresh-faced cast members after heading to the big screen (and HBO Max).

Rita Moreno is weighing in on the controversy of colorism in In The Heights.

In a Twitter post last night, Lin-Manuel Miranda, creator, and writer of the Broadway musical “In The Heights,” on which the Jon M. Chu-directed film of the same name is based, posted an apology in response to discussions of the film’s colorism from audiences and critics.

. The movie adaptation of the hit Broadway musical centers on characters living in the Washington Heights neighborhood of New York City and stars include Anthony Ramos, Leslie Grace, and Melissa Barrera.

In The Heights.Addressing a recent interview with The Root journalist Felice León, in which León asked director Jon M. Chu about how dark-skinned Latino actors only appeared in background scenes, Miranda acknowledged the film “fell short”.“I started writing In the Heights because I didn’t feel seen,” Miranda began in a statement on Twitter.

Lin-Manuel Miranda opened up about Afro-Latinx representation in his latest movie In The Heights and took to Twitter to post an apology as he addressed the issue of colourism in the film. Miranda's apology comes days after the film's director Jon Chu responded to the lack of Afro-Latinx representation in his feature musical that recently released in theatres and HBO Max.

After director Jon Chu responded to the lack of Afro-Latinx representation in his feature musical In the Heights, the film’s composer/ lyricist/producer and co-scribe and star Lin-Manuel Miranda has weighed in with a public apology on social media.

Just hours after Jon M. Chu opened up about Afro-Latinx representation on the screen in his new movie, In The Heights, creator Lin-Manuel Miranda is also addressing the issue of colorism.

The movie version of Lin-Manuel Miranda‘s 2008 Broadway musical In The Heights is drawing lots of attention this summer — but now it may be for all the wrong reasons.

In The Heights, and that includes some superstar celebs who simply can’t stop singing the film’s praises.One of the biggest names to talk about their love of the film is  Ariana Grande, who couldn’t have been more excited about getting to see a screening of the movie early. The “thank u, next” singer raved about the musical for a full minute in a video that director Jon M. Chu shared on Twitter on Thursday, June 10.“So I am the biggest In the Heights stan that you will ever find on Earth, and a

Third-party streaming viewership stat org Samba TV reports this morning that 693k U.S. households watched In the Heights on HBO Max in their live+3-day window. The news comes in the wake of the Warner Bros. feature musical losing the No. 1 spot at the weekend B.O. to the third session of Paramount’s A Quiet Place Part II, $11.5M to $12M.

, it’s hard not to think about the impact the movie musical based on Lin-Manuel Miranda’s 2008 Broadway production will have during this year’s awards season.  Debuting in theaters (and on HBO Max the same day), the film directed by Jon M.

The streets are crowded these days!

SATURDAY UPDATE: Refresh for updates While it appeared that the summer box office was dusting itself off from the pandemic over the last two weeks, both newcomers Warner Bros. highly anticipated Jon M. Chu directed Lin-Manuel Miranda musical In the Heights and Sony’s Peter Rabbit 2: The Runaway are currently filing less than spectacular results respectively with a No. 1 rank of $5M Friday, $13M 3-day and No. 4 place of $4M Friday, and $10.2M 30-day.

Ellise Shafer administratorWarner Bros. movie musical “In the Heights” is poised to top the domestic box office this weekend, though its 3-day estimate now sits lower than previous predictions.Earlier in the week, “In the Heights” — directed by Jon M.

When Jon M. Chu stepped outside to film “In the Heights” on the streets of Washington Heights, New York, he found another certain movie filming on the same streets: Steven Spielberg’s “West Side Story” happened to film at the same time, in the summer of 2019, and at the same place as “In the Heights.” “We were right there in each other’s back some days,” Chu told TheWrap.