High School Musical 2 courtesy Buena Vista Home Entertainment
Have you been waiting for word on when you can rush out to buy High School Musical 2? Well, the wait is over. Disney has just announced that they'll release the set on Dec. 11. This is the extended edition, running 111 minutes and including a never-before-seen music sequence, rehearsal footage and music videos. You can sing lead vocals with "High School Karaoke!"Here's what Disney has to say about the set:"It's time to sing and dance because there's so much more to celebrate in HIGH SCHOOL MUSICAL 2: EXTENDED EDITION. Experience the movie in a whole new way with a never-before-seen music sequence and rehearsal footage, plus sing lead vocals with 'High School Karaoke.' The East High Wildcats are gearing up for big fun as they land the coolest summer jobs imaginable. Troy (Zac Efron), Gabriella (Vanessa Hudgens), Chad (Corbin Bleu), and Taylor (Monique Coleman) have scored sweet gigs at the Lava Springs Country Club owned by Sharpay and Ryan's family. Sharpay's first rule of business:...
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Vanessa Hudgens and Zac Efron in High School Musical 2 by Bob D'Amico/Disney Channel
As Disney Channel's High School Musical 2 continues to rack up ratings — in addition to the record 17.2 million who caught Friday's premiere, 8.4 mil tuned in for Saturday's rerun and 7.5 mil crooned in for Sunday's sing-along — talk continues of a feature-film adaptation of the original. Stars Zac Efron and Vanessa Hudgens, though, may not be available, if only because Disney is "only offering them $1 million each," a source tells the New York Post. A studio rep responds, "We are still in negotiations with the entire cast," but declined to comment further on the talks.UPDATED: An HSM2 encore is scheduled for Thursday at 8 pm/ET. Because you haven't seen it enough, Moms and Dads.
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What time is it? It's summertime… and time for the highly anticipated sequel to Disney's mega-hit a href="High School Musical. In HSM 2, the gang from East High kicks off summer vacation by heading to a ritzy country club in the picturesque hills of New Mexico. Ryan (Lucas Grabeel) and Sharpay (Ashley Tisdale) are all set to relax by the pool on Mommy and Daddy's dime while Troy (Zac Efron), Gabriella (Vanessa Hudgens) and the rest of the crew are forced to take jobs to save up for college, cars and the other expenses teenagers face. Although the employment of her fellow students puts a damper on Sharpay's summer plans, she wastes no time concocting a scheme to keep her summer fabulous. With the help of her clique, the Sharpettes, she uses her powers of persuasion to steal Troy away from his friends and ensure victory at the end-of-summer talent show. High School Musical 2 has everything (and everyone) we all loved from the first movie, and more. Characters like Zeke the baker...
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Vanessa Hudgens, Zac Efron and Ashley Tisdale in High School Musical 2 by Adam Larkey/Disney Channel
The ridiculous (in a good way) ratings for Disney Channel's multiple record-breaking weekend launch of High School Musical 2 was just the most spectacular reminder of what a great TV summer this has been — if you have cable.Not even a big hit like TNT's The Closer can match HSM2's numbers, and some of the best series, like AMC's mesmerizing Mad Men, are only doing so-so. But that's only to be expected given the glut of programming on many nights — including Thursdays, when Mad Men goes head-to-head with USA Network's latest clever breakout caper, Burn Notice. I thought my DVRs would get a break this summer. Didn't happen.Just look at the options we’ve had over the last few nights, including terrific new episodes of Burn Notice and Mad Men on Thursday. I’m really enjoying Burn now that ex-spy Michael Weston is getting closer to the truth about how he was set up to be fired. And what can I say about Mad Men besides the word I used to start my initial review of th...
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High School Musical 2 by Adam Larkey/Disney Channel
The Friday-night premiere of Disney Channel's High School Musical 2 was voted "TV-movie Most Likely to Dominate the Nielsens," drawing a whopping 17.2 million total viewers. For starters, that makes it the most-watched basic-cable telecast ever, topping ESPN's Sept 23, 2006 MNF outing.Oh but wait, there is more. HSM2 also garnered these superlatives:• most-watched TV telecast with kids 6-11• most-watched entertainment telecast with tweens 9-14• TV's most-watched Friday telecast in five years• basic cable's most-watched TV-movie ever in total viewers, and by a margin of 38 percent (besting the record held since January '01 by Crossfire Trail)Now step away from the computer and go fire it up once again on the TiVo for Billy and Susie.
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Zac Effron and Vanessa Hudgens, High School Musical 2
Question: As a parent of a tween, I want to thank you for the nice words about High School Musical 2. My daughter has postponed her birthday party almost four weeks so she can have a High School Musical 2 premiere party. It is a huge deal in our house. It is so neat for someone of your stature — I really respect your reviews and commentaries — to give this show a positive review. I have a hard time understanding why the networks shy away from such programming. Why didn't Disney broadcast High School Musical 2 on ABC? I know that programming is all about demographics, but consider how much money High School Musical has made for the Disney parent company. Tweens like to spend money — my daughter is a great example of that! Disney Channel is basically commercial-free, except for the network's own programming, and while I like that, I just wonder why the lure of advertising dollars from outside Disney did not prompt a network broadcast. Our family and others we know love to watch shows ...
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Zac Efron and Vanessa Hudgens in High School Musical 2 by Adam Larkey/Disney Channel
Verizon FiOS customers have the chance to see Disney Channel's High School Musical 2 as early as today, a full week before its official premiere, via its Disney on Demand service. (Psst, save yourself some coin and pay me a mere $5 not to tell your rugrats.).... Helena Bonham Carter is pregnant with her and director husband Tim Burton's second child, her publicist tells the AP. The couple have a 3-year-old son, Raymond.... The role of Notorious B.I.G. for an upcoming biopic about the ill-fated rapper will be filled via an open casting call, producers tell the AP. if you're big enough and bad enough, go here for details.
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Don't look for Showtime to win a good-parenting medal anytime soon.In the compellingly caustic new comedy Californication, the debauched anti-hero (David Duchovny) brings his 12-year-old daughter home, and she solemnly wonders: "Why is there a naked lady in your bedroom?" (Make up your own "That's no lady" retort.) Meanwhile, in the third rollicking season of its companion show Weeds, TV's most desperate drug-dealing housewife (Mary-Louise Parker) is seen supervising her son packing bags of pot as she reluctantly sinks deeper into criminal intrigue.
Subversive? Of course. Pay cable is all about pushing the envelope. The racier and more twisted the satire, the better the buzz, and in that regard, these shows deliver. But beneath their sardonic surface, they share an undercurrent of regret that their characters' lives have come to this.
In Californication, Duchovny is as rakishly appealing as any cad can be, playing an embittered writer who stews in self-c
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Zac Efron and Ashley Tisdale in High School Musical 2 by Adam Larkey/Disney Channel
Disney Channel on Saturday unveiled its plans to premiere High School Musical 2 with the fanfare of, say, an Eva Longoria wedding or a Paris Hilton jail stay. The follow-up film, which your rugrats and/or onetime coworker Angel Cohn have long been pestering you about, first airs Aug. 17 at 8 pm/ET, with a telecast hosted from a backyard BBQ by its stars and director Kenny Ortega. On Aug. 18, an encore airing will be accentuated by an interactive online chat with cast members. Then, on Aug. 19 — because let's face it, your kid is watching it three nights in a row anyway — the repeat will be fashioned as a sing-along, with lyrics flashed on your screen.But wait, there's more. Literally. Disney Channel Worldwide's prez is already teasing a HSM No. 3, saying, "We're working on a script and talking to talent.... We're happily optimistic we'll pull everybody back together."
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