Miley Cyrus Has Some Free Time: Hannah Montana Movie Delayed
March 22, 2008
Back in December, we reported about how the writers’ strike may cause delays in the shooting of The Hannah Montana Movie.
Talking about the possibility of the Miley Cyrus film being pushed back because of screenplay problems, a reported Disney insider had said that “This film could be a huge hit and really help launch Miley Cyrus’s movie career. But only if it gets the rewrite that it needs. Right now, that script is just in too rough a shape to shoot.”
Now comes word from Hollywood Exclusive that the strike has indeed caused the flick to be pushed back into May and that there’s no solid date for shooting to begin.
“We don’t have a definitive start date on the feature,” said co-star Jason Earles, who plays older brother Jackson Stewart on Hannah Montana.
“With the strike, I think the start date has been pushed a little bit into May. There’s a couple of versions of the script floating around, so it’ll be exciting to see where we land on that.”
High School Musical 3 Choreographer Hearts Vanessa Hudgens
March 22, 2008
When it comes to dancing, nobody in the High School Musical 3: Senior Year cast is more naturally gifted than Vanessa Hudgens.
This opinion comes by way of Chucky Klapow, who is the choreographer on the upcoming HSM 3 flick. And he’s been with the franchise since the beginning — he did the choreography on the first two movies for director Kenny Ortega as well.
“Vanessa is the most naturally gifted in picking up the new moves,” he said in a recent interview with The Grand Rapids Press.
However, he says that there is one drawback to Ms. Hudgens’ gift of dance that he has to nag her about.
“Things come really easily for her, so she gets lazy with it because she has to wait for the others to catch on. I have to be like, ‘Vanessa, let’s get working here.’”
High School Musical 3: Senior Year hits the UK on October 17, 2008.
New Study Shows Kids’ Gaffes On Moon, Mars
March 20, 2008
Hey Andy, did you hear about this one?
A new survey of children commissioned by Walt Disney Studios Home Entertainment in conjunction with the Royal Astronomical Society shows that one out of three children between the ages of four and ten-years-old believe that Winston Churchill was the first man to walk on the moon.
The study questioned 1,400 British primary school children between the ages of four and ten-years-old and the results were somewhat horrifying. Besides the Neil Armstrong gaffe, two in five of those surveyed believe that Mars is simply the name of a chocolate bar.
“It’s a bit of a worry to find that children don’t know who the first man on the moon is, let alone that they don’t know who led the country to victory in the Second World War,” said Gavin Quirk of Walt Disney Studios.
“And I think it is definitely time to get back to the classroom if our school children think of Mars firstly as a chocolate bar.”
Additionally, one third of the kids were unaware that Earth is an official planet.