Tag Archive | "School"

Is ‘Fallen’ a Twilight Ripoff?

Thursday, December 10, 2009

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Disney just bought the movie rights to Fallen, a planned four-part young adult novel series.  The first book was just released this month. So what’s it about?  Well, it sounds kind of familiar: according to the Hollywood Reporter, it “centers on an alienated girl torn between two charismatic young men.”  In fact, the series begins with [...]

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Miley Cyrus Thinks Zac Efron is Super-Hot

Tuesday, November 24, 2009

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Miley Cyrus, whether you ask her fans, her detractors, or even herself, is not what you’d call a normal teenage girl: she’s a movie, music, and TV star constantly followed around by the paparazzi.  But on the Morning Mashup radio show, Miley admitted she is “normal” about one thing: a huge attraction to Zac Efron. There’s [...]

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Vampire Diaries Star Admits Characters are ‘Similar’ to Twilight

Thursday, October 1, 2009

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Whenever I mention that The Vampire Diaries is trying to steal Twilight’s thunder, somebody always points out that the Vampire Diaries book series, by L.J. Smith, came out in 1991 — way before Twilight. But that’s kind of missing the point.  The Vampire Diaries TV show only came out this season, changed a lot of stuff [...]

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Decent Opening for Fame

Tuesday, September 29, 2009

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Fame opened this weekend and made $10 million — not bad, but not as good as dance movies like Step Up ($21 million) or musicals like High School Musical 3 ($42 million). Still, since it only had a budget of $18 million, it will probably make money. One movie it did beat was Vanessa Hudgens’ Bandslam, which [...]

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The CW is Desperate for Attention

Wednesday, August 19, 2009

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The CW’s upcoming fall show The Beautiful Life, produced by Ashton Kutcher, certainly has its share of star power with Corbin Bleu (High School Musical), Mischa Barton (The O.C.) and Sara Paxton (Darcy’s Wild Life) among the cast.  But it looks like they’re trying to stir up controversy with eye-opening ads like this one: After Vanessa [...]

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