EXCLUSIVE: Shout! Studios and Blue Fox Entertainment have jointly acquired North American rights to the starry new animated feature The Canterville Ghost from Beverly Hills-based sales agent Cinema Management Group, Deadline has learned.
09.08.2023 - 23:21 / variety.com
Hunter Ingram SPOILER ALERT: This story contains spoilers for the fourth and final season of “High School Musical: The Musical: The Series,” now streaming on Disney+. The Wildcats of “High School Musical: The Musical: The Series” have taken their final bow. The Disney+ extension of the popular movie musical trilogy concluded this week with an eight-episode fourth season that found its cast performing a stage — or rather, basketball court — production of 2008’s “High School Musical 3: Senior Year.” Members of that film’s original cast returned to East High to shoot the fictional “High School Musical 4: The Reunion.” Although the original films have had a presence since the pilot episode — the series is set at the high school where the films were shot — the final season is the show’s most meta endeavor yet.
“I think that’s one reason we wrapped up the show, or why I wanted to wrap up the show, because how do you out-meta Season 4?” creator Tim Federle tells Variety. The final season brought to a close what has been an impressive run for the spin-off, which launched the careers of its young cast, including Grammy winner Olivia Rodrigo, Tony nominee Julia Lester and Joshua Bassett.
In the final episodes, the new Wildcats found themselves making big decisions about their post-high-school futures. Gina (Sophia Wylie) segued her surprise casting in “HSM 4” into a starring role in a new adaptation of “Romeo & Juliet” — and cornered the director into filming in New Mexico so she could finish out her senior year at East High.
With his and Gina’s relationship now public, Ricky (Bassett) got into college and realized he actually wanted to go. Likewise for Kourtney (Dara Reneé), whose Ivy League dreams were sidelined when she fell
.EXCLUSIVE: Shout! Studios and Blue Fox Entertainment have jointly acquired North American rights to the starry new animated feature The Canterville Ghost from Beverly Hills-based sales agent Cinema Management Group, Deadline has learned.
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last year’s “Bodies, Bodies, Bodies” and Edebiri’s levelheaded deliveries make the most insane ideas sound totally logical and reasonable. The two make perfect foils.
EXCLUSIVE: Freestyle Digital Media, the digital film distribution division of Byron Allen’s Allen Media Group, has locked down rights to The Road Dog, a dramatic comedy set in the world of stand-up that stars veteran comic Doug Stanhope (The Man Show). The film will enjoy a week-long theatrical engagement at Pickwick Theatre in the Chicago suburb of Park Ridge from September 1-7 and become available across North America on digital October 6th.
Marg Helgenberger got part of the gang back together!
Michael Oher's high school football coach is weighing in on the lawsuit between Oher and the Tuohy family.The 37-year-old former NFL pro filed a lawsuit on Monday that alleges that Sean and Leigh Anne Tuohy tricked him into a conservatorship and lied about his adoption status when he was 18.Auburn coach Hugh Freeze, who coached Oher at Briarcrest Christian School in Memphis, called the legal drama «sad.»«I think it's sad. I certainly don't claim to understand all the ins and outs of adoption, conservatory, all of that.
Showtime has set a fall premiere for its limited series Fellow Travelers, starring Matt Bomer and Jonathan Bailey. Fellow Travelers will make its streaming debut on the Paramount+ with Showtime plan beginning Friday, October 27 before its linear debut on Sunday, October 29 at 9 p.m. ET/PT on Showtime. The series will also premiere on Paramount+ on October 27 in Canada and on October 28 in all the UK, Australia, Latin America, South Korea, Italy, Germany Switzerland and Austria.
Zack Sharf Digital News Director Millie Bobby Brown said in a recently published interview with Women’s Wear Daily that she is ready for “Stranger Things” to end with its upcoming fifth season. Production on the final run of episodes has been delayed because of the WGA and SAG-AFTRA strikes. Brown has been a fixture on “Stranger Things” as Eleven since its pilot episode, and the show’s popularity turned her and her young co-stars into global superstars.
High School Musical: The Musical: The Series bid farewell to the East High wildcats in its season 4 finale, but not without seemingly honoring former costar Olivia Rodrigo.
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Jeremy Allen White and Ayo Edebiri got together to grab a bite to eat on Wednesday (August 9).
. But the Disney+ show was missing two familiar faces — Zac Efron, who played basketball playing heartthrob Troy Bolton, and Vanessa Hudgens, who played brainy singer Gabriella Montez, in the original films. Despite the return of several original cast members including Corbin Bleu (Chad Danforth), Monique Coleman (Taylor McKessie), Lucas Grabeel (Ryan Evans), and KayCee Strong (Martha Cox), Efron, Hudgens and co-star Ashley Tisdale (Sharpay Evans) did not make cameos in the finale season of the spinoff series.
come out as gay in the Disney+ series based on the iconic franchise.“High School Musical: The Musical: The Series” dropped its fourth and final season on Wednesday and there is a scene where some of the original Disney Channel stars are filming “High School Musical 4.”The TV series’ showrunner Tim Federle told TV Line recently that he called Grabeel, 38, to tell him the news of Ryan’s sexual orientation.“Lucas, like, cried on the phone and said, ‘This would mean so much to people who grew up with this movie,'” Federle recalled.He went on and noted that the “Switched at Birth” star had told him: “It’s what they were always kind of missing from this character.”The TV show’s scene featured Ryan kissing his partner, portrayed by Pentatonix member Scott Hoying.“High School Musical” premiered on Disney Channel in 2006 and subsequently had two sequels released in the following years.
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