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Directed by | Duane Adler |
Produced by | Robert Cort Soo Man Lee Eric Hetzel Patricia Chun |
Written by | Duane Adler |
Based on |
Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare |
Starring |
BoA Kwon Derek Hough Will Yun Lee Wesley Jonathan Izabella Miko Jefferson Brown |
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Distributed by |
High Top Releasing CJ Entertainment |
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Country | United States South Korea |
Language | English Korean Japanese |
Box office | $1,427,172 |
Make Your Move (formerly called Cobu 3D, also known as Make Your Move 3D), is a Romeo and Juliet-inspired 2013 South Korean-American independent dance film starring K-pop singer BoA and ballroom dancer Derek Hough. The film was directed by Duane Adler who wrote the script for the movies Save the Last Dance (2001) and Step Up (2006). Hough took season twelve off of the show Dancing With the Stars to star in the film, which was shot in New York City and Toronto during the spring of 2011. Aside from the lead stars, singer Yunho from TVXQ has a cameo appearance. The film was choreographed by Tabitha and Napoleon D'umo, Yako Miyamoto, and Nick Gonzalez.
A preview of the film was shown at KCON 2012, a Korean entertainment convention, in Irvine, California. Songs from the movie's soundtrack were played at the convention as well including three by the groups Girls' Generation, F(x) and TVXQ.
The film was released in 2013. According to IMDb, it was released in Norway, Italy, Belgium, the Netherlands, and Denmark in the summer. It was released in the United Arab Emirates, South Korea, and the United States in 2014.
Make Your Move has received mixed reviews from critics. Review aggregator Rotten Tomatoes gives the film a score of 46% based on reviews from 13 critics, with an average rating of 5/10.Metacritic calculated a score of 40 out of 100 based on 9 reviews, which signifies mixed or average reviews.