Dirty Dancing: Not in the Corner on Facebook

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Old movies don’t die, they live on as Facebook pages. Lionsgate is finding second life in some back titles, showing that a couple decades on, movies like Dirty Dancing still draw big crowds.

Dirty Dancing’s Facebook fan page is now up to over 6.8 million "likes," adding about 150,000 per week. The 1987 movie is the No. 6 most popular movie site all time on Facebook, outpacing more modern franchises like Avatar and Sex and the City.

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