High School Musical

This thread shall never die.

It's a dedicated thread to VANESSA ANNE HUDGENS.

oh, and that movie.

 

so um.


I'm happy and sad.

 

are you in the SLO?


I'm a pretttty huge Vanessa fan. Zac's doing fine tapping that.


But that's always cool to hear something like that. I always thought that Corbin Bleu and Vanessa would be the one that really busted out into the mainstream, but it turns out it was Zac Efron. He ended up in Hairspray.


Vanessa should be coming in a movie soon.

 

still makes me sad.


oh well, she recovered nicely.

Never seen the remake of hairspray. I've seen bits and pieces of the original.


HSM3 is going to be pretty close to Dark Knight.

 

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Be a part of something BIG.
Be BIG

LIVE IT.


It's time.


Get Red.

Get Wildcat.

 

OK!!!!!!!!!!!!


Wassup Wildcats! The Red and Gold (yes, that is their colors, not red and yellow, but damn close, it's actually red white and gold, but whatever) are back! It's Senior Year. It's going to most likely be the final time for this cast here, but there maybe an HSM 4, with some carry overs.



HSM's Matt Prokop may be next big man on campus
By JOEY GUERRA Copyright 2008 Houston Chronicle
Chron



Sometimes, being the class clown does get you somewhere. Just ask High School Musical 3 star Matt Prokop.

The 18-year-old Victoria native attended Memorial High School through his sophomore year, and he was always up for a quick gag.

"(I was) always wanting to be that kid that everybody laughed at. I just tried to get people's attention," says Prokop, who recently returned to Houston to chat about his big-screen Disney debut.

"I decided I'd use my antics for good and try out acting."

Prokop began working with an acting coach in Houston and eventually made his way to Los Angeles. He's been "auditioning ever since," landing bit parts on Hannah Montana and The Office.

Now, he's about to hit a whole new level. Prokop is one of the new faces in HSM3: Senior Year, which follows Troy, Gabriella, Sharpay and the rest of the singing-and-dancing crew as they plan for college — and one last, big musical, of course.

True to past HSM editions, there are elaborate numbers at the drop of a backpack: on the basketball court, at prom, during graduation, in the rain, an "incredible" cafeteria number.

"I watched the first one, and I respected it as Disney is bringing back the musicals for kids," Prokop says. "My little cousins adore High School Musical. When they found out I even met Zac (Efron), it freaked them out.

"I actually had Zac call them. I am forever the coolest cousin to them."

Prokop is likely to pick up more young (and several older) fans when the film opens Friday in theaters. He plays Jimmy "Rocket Man" Zara, a sophomore on the Wildcats basketball team who idolizes Efron's moody Troy Bolton.

The pair instantly clicked, and Prokop says they brought that real-life chemistry to several scenes.

"We act just like brothers when we're hanging out. Our characters are really similar," Prokop says.

"There's one scene where I clothesline him in the face, which is by far the funniest — and the funnest — scene I shot."

Also new on the HSM scene are British actress Jemma McKenzie-Brown (a mini-Sharpay Evans) and Justin Martin (a mini-Chad Danforth).

"I think the main reason they added us new guys was to bring comedic relief to it," says Prokop, who sports the perfect Disney shag, smile and trendy clothes.

True, but the Rocket Man has his own problems as well.

"He has never touched the ball in a game. He just kind of sits on the bench, your average sophomore on varsity," Prokop says of his character.

"He thinks he's a total rock star. He's completely opposite from any character you've seen in High School Musical."

Prokop says he was on the soccer team and "more of the popular type" guy during his high-school years, which made relating to his character a challenge. (He now only gets home about one week out of the year and misses Uncle Mutt's Bar-B-Q and "real" Mexican food.)

"Playing a quirky, nerdy sophomore was probably the hardest thing I had to pull off," he says. "Just capturing a 15-year-old kid who doesn't know his place in life."

If Prokop does blow up, Efron-style, he has Miley Cyrus to thank. Sort of. Prokop is likely familiar to 'tweens for his brief role as Troy McCann, a potential suitor on a 2007 episode of Hannah Montana.

He originally auditioned for the role of Jake Ryan, a recurring love interest played by Dancing With the Stars contestant Cody Linley. No luck. But nine months later, Disney came calling.

"I think I auditioned for Hannah about four times before I actually got one of the roles," Prokop says. "They're so picky with Disney. 'Your hair's too much like (someone else's) hair' and all that stuff. It gets really detail-oriented.

"I was excited with the role I had. It was, like, three lines, just came in and invited Miley to a party, and her bodyguard wouldn't let me talk to her."

Art imitating life, perhaps. In truth, Prokop says he is "great friends" with Cyrus and even attended her recent sweet 16 blowout at Disneyland. ("It was nuts," he says.)

If things go well, Prokop may find himself plastered on walls alongside Efron and Cyrus. It's clear that Disney infused the HSM franchise with new blood in order to keep it alive once the old guard moves on. Disney execs confirmed a fourth installment, likely for TV, earlier this year.

For Prokop, then, senior year is only the beginning.

"We haven't talked about High School Musical 4 yet — but if they bring it up, I will definitely be stoked to do it. Oh yeah," he says.

"It still feels like a dream. I was like, 'That's not me. This can't really be happening.' Oct. 24, my life is going to change. It's crazy."




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from the Wall Street Journal



As the third installment of the wildly successful "High School Musical" series hits theaters Friday, Walt Disney Co. is grappling with a generational challenge: how to ensure that one of its hottest properties continues to thrive even as the marquee cast prepares to move on.
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"High School Musical 3: Senior Year" stars Vanessa Hudgens and Zac Efron.
Since its debut in 2006, "High School Musical" has evolved into a potent franchise, rolled out across virtually all of the company's platforms, from merchandising and theme parks to TV and radio. In Disney's just-ended fiscal year, the franchise is estimated to have contributed more than $100 million to operating profit.
But maintaining that momentum has become increasingly difficult as the show's cast and storyline have matured. The third movie already radiates a feeling of finality, beginning with the title itself, "High School Musical 3: Senior Year." The teen idols who have propelled the franchise, including Zac Efron, now 21 years old, and Corbin Bleu and Vanessa Hudgens, both 19, are hitting the age limit for Disney's stable of teen superstars, and they have already begun to pursue other opportunities.
Whether Disney can extend the life of "High School Musical" without them will signal how its other hot properties built around teen stars -- including the Hannah Montana and Jonas Brothers phenomena -- are likely to fare as their casts age.
Watch the trailer for "High School Musical 3: Senior Year." Video courtesy of Walt Disney Pictures.
With the current film -- the first to be released in theaters -- the company is trying to pull off the delicate maneuver of introducing a new, younger group of singing and dancing students at East High School who can eclipse those who are departing.
"We're calling it regeneration, because we're bringing in a new generation," said Disney Chief Executive Robert Iger. "We believe that this is something that clearly can sustain a pretty thorough cast change," he added. "It's the same town, the same high school -- which, in effect, have become characters themselves."
"High School Musical" began as a series on the Disney Channel in January 2006, starring Mr. Efron as a high-school jock and Ms. Hudgens as a brainy math whiz. The up-tempo musical show caught on quickly with a core audience of young girls. The second installment was set over the characters' summer break, and its popularity quickly surpassed that of the first when it aired on the Disney Channel in August 2007. It has now been seen by more than 293 million viewers.
Thus far, the "High School Musical" franchise has spawned a live national theatrical tour, a national concert tour, an ice-skating show, thousands of local high-school performances, and the nation's No. 1 and No. 2 music albums in 2006 and 2007, respectively.
The current film is the first in the series to be released on the big screen. The movie-ticket Web sites Fandango.com and Movietickets.com have reported heavy presales in the weeks leading up to the film's debut. The movie could open to between $30 million and $40 million in weekend ticket sales, according to people familiar with the film's tracking, and an executive at a rival studio says sales may even exceed $40 million.
The movie reportedly had a budget of at least $13 million, nearly twice the cost of "High School Musical 2," though a relative bargain for a widely released studio-produced film. But for Disney, the most important test is whether the new cast members will catch on with fans. The movie attempts to position Matt Prokop, 18, as a successor to Mr. Efron, and Justin Martin and Jemma McKenzie-Brown, both 14, as replacements for, respectively, Mr. Bleu and Ashley Tisdale's popular diva character, "Sharpay."
The Disney Channel is already banking on the new cast and has ordered a fourth installment. But beyond that, executives say, the future remains cloudy. "We're recalibrating as we move forward," said Rich Ross, president of Disney Channel. "There is no doubt that the next movie, in our minds, will have a lot of new faces."
Find TV listings at LocateTV.Disney said it still hasn't decided whether to release the fourth movie on TV or in theaters. But, Mr. Ross said, "We think the next movie deserves the careful nurturing of our audience and not necessarily having the pressure of a Friday night opening, wondering if the audience will show up."



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