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Disney Original Movie ‘The Slumber Party’ Announced

Top, From Left: Darby Camp, Emmy Liu-Wang, Valentina Herrera, Bottom from Left: Alex Cooper Cohen, Ramon Rodriguez, Dallas Liu Photo Credits: Top, From Left: Emily Sandifer, Guido Venitucci, Doreen Stone Bottom, From Left: Alison Donahue, Dana Patrick, Jonny Marlow

Disney Branded Television has ordered the Disney Original Movie “The Slumber Party,” based on the well-known teen novel “The Sleepover” by Jen Malone, from Imagine Kids+Family. Academy Award winners Brian Grazer and Ron Howard serve as executive producers of the movie, along with Stephanie Sperber and Jennilee Cummings for Imagine Kids+Family and production partner Jax Media’s Jake Fuller, Tony Hernandez and John Hodges. “The Slumber Party” is directed by NAACP Image Award nominee Veronica Rodriguez (“Let’s Get Married,” Disney’s “Gabby Duran & the Unsittables”), and Eydie Faye (“Fuller House”) is the writer. Production on the adventure-filled comedy begins today in Atlanta.

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