Tag: High School Musical
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‘Theater Camp’: Finally, a Movie That Makes Fun of Theater Kids Accurately!
Theater kids get a bad reputation, and it’s not hard to see why. You have movies like High School Musical, which portray theater-obsessed siblings Ryan (Lucas Grabeel) and Sharpay (Ashley Tisdale) as mostly self-absorbed, spotlight-stealing, overly dramatic weirdos, which is a very sharp contrast against the characters who simply fall into the theater world. Then…
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Vanessa Hudgens Sets Philippines Travel Documentary Exploring Her Family’s Asian Heritage
Vanessa Hudgens, the Asian American actor whose career kicked off in Disney’s “High School Musical” series, is set to shoot a travel documentary in the Philippines, the country of her mother’s birth.The untitled project will shoot in Palawan and Manila in March. Paul Soriano is attached as a director, producer and executive producer. Mark A.…
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Olivia Rodrigo To Return For High School Musical: The Musical: The Series Season 3
Recently chosen as Time Magazine’s Entertainer of the Year, Olivia Rodrigo’s debut album “Sour” threw her into pop superstardom. If you ask the general public, the Grammy-nominated teenager seemed to explode in popularity out of nowhere, but real ones know that Rodrigo had already been crushing it with tween and teen audiences on Disney’s “Bizaardvark”…
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Vanessa Hudgens, James Marsden, Kimiko Glenn Star in Netflix’s ‘My Little Pony: A New Generation’
“High School Musical” star Vanessa Hudgens will lead the voice cast of “My Little Pony: A New Generation,” a Netflix film based on the popular children’s toy line.The animated adventure’s cast will also include Kimiko Glenn (“Orange Is the New Black”) and James Marsden (“Enchanted”), with the two playing Izzy Moonbow and Hitch Trailblazer. Hudgens…
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Zac Efron Starring in ‘Firestarter’ Reboot From Blumhouse, Universal
Zac Efron will star in “Firestarter,” a new adaptation of Stephen King’s classic novel.The film centers on a young girl who develops pyrokinetic powers and the ability to see the future. She is abducted by a mysterious government agency that plans to weaponize her superhuman skills. The film is backed by Universal Pictures, Blumhouse Productions…
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Anna and the Apocalypse review – all-singing, all-dancing, brain-bashing zomcom
Fun addition to the zombie mashup canon, with secondary-school pupil Anna battling the undead with showtunesThis good-natured Scottish horror movie set in a rundown secondary school adds a potentially hellish new dimension to the zomcom mash-up: song and dance numbers, High School Musical-style. It just about gets away it, coasting on cheerfully gruesome zombie kills…
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Music From ‘Black Panther,’ ‘Greatest Showman’ Spurs Movie Soundtrack Renaissance
If you were to plot the successes and declines of film soundtracks on a stock chart, one might think that there was a movie-music drought or depression for much of the aughts. Indeed, there kind of was. Since the late 1990s when “Space Jam” and “Titanic” moved millions of albums, 2006’s “High School Musical,” a…