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There's no date yet, but a new trailer for Disney's 'High School Musical 2' confirms that a Blu-ray version of the teen sensation is on the way. The sequel to the unstoppable (some might say inexplicable) phenomenon 'High School Musical' - a cross-format blockbuster that broke ratings records for a Disney Channel premiere movie and spawned a chart-topping soundtrack CD - is currently scheduled to have its broadcast premiere on August 17.
Though Disney has not yet set a date for a subsequent home video debut, they have released a new teaser trailer for an 'Extended Edition' that touts an eventual bow on both standard-def DVD and Blu-ray.
As you might expect at this early date, there are no tech specs nor supplements available yet, although the trailer does tout the extended edition's "all-new movie experience," as well as a new Sing-Along Version.
[Source: High-Def Digest]
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| Having a ball: Zac Efron makes his moves in a series of Disney "High School Musical." |
The taut experience has taught at least one hot hero that balance is bliss: Clearly, Zac Efron doesn't fear from Clearasil; his career is as creamy as his clear complexion as he smooth-talks his way through high school hi jinks and serves as a study hall in studliness.
And if he's about to matriculate in his third high school in as many years ... well, it's not that he's been suspended from each. More a case of suspended belief that any high school would ever let this guy go in the first place.
Of course, real-life Efron, 19, earned his diploma a while ago, but is using the secondary education and prime-time experience as his graduate school for a series of senior trips into Hollywood hotness.
As trusty Troy on the mega-successful Disney "High School Musical" -- and the follow-up Disney Channel feature later this month -- and now as Link, the prominent prom knight sweeping Tracy Turnblad off her zaftig base in the film "Hairspray," as well as the new link in the "Six Degrees of Kevin Bacon" game as he goes for a fitting in Bacon's role in a revival of "Footloose," the Jewish kid from California has more photos snapped of him for the tabloids and teen mags than could fit into a senior yearbook.
And this may be the biggest year yet.
Sweet and sexy, seductively nice, he can't stop the beat -- or the Tiger Beat for that matter, a mag that pages him for greatness in nearly every issue as it pictures him as proof that, when it comes to its tween and teen readers, sighs does matter.
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| Zac Efron and Nicky Blonsky in "Hairspray" |
At 5 ft. 8, he's now walking in the land of the Jewish giants -- an American idol with little idle time on his hands, what with the big and small screens screaming for his attention.
Sure, he treasures his Travolta experience -- John plays his silver-screen schpritz of a mother in "Hairspray" -- and is apt to describe the former "Kotter" kid as the king of cool of all musicals, but it is his parents, David Efron and Starla Baskett, whom Zac credits for filling his personal basket with confidence from early on.
"Oh, they always encouraged me," smiles the personable performer dubbed by People as one of the "100 Most Beautiful People."
That title, in many ways, belongs to his folks, he avers. Of course, they had an early hint that the singer who later hit the charts with songs from "High School Musical" -- one a duet with his on and, allegedly, off-screen co-star Vanessa Anne Hudgens -- was destined for disk history. "Whenever we went on trips, I was always the one who couldn't stop singing in the back of the car," he chuckles.
Then there were his other vehicles, school productions of such musicals as "Peter Pan" and "The Music Man" -- can't stop the beat, indeed.
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And now, here he is, so soon after fans started taking note of him from appearances on TV in such series as "The Suite Life of Zack and Cody" and"Summerland," the heartthrob-of-a-hard-act-to-follow.
Not that the girls have a hard time following his every move -- nor, for that matter, their Moms, some of whom have been known to dream of the dreamboat as someone they'd like to set sail with.
Lights Brighter on Broadway?
Did Efron have as high a time in high school as a student?
"No," he says, "high school was not this great."
Somehow, he's made it cool for kids to think of musicals as hip and happenin' -- more a groove than the goof so long associated with Broadway-style shows for youngsters who turn up their noses and turn off their hearts to the broad way such shows have been pitched to
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If you're a fan of Zac Efron from his work on High School Musical or Hairspray, then I've got some very good news for you. He's a really nice guy.
Unlike most cute teen idols who take the news that young girls find them attractive as a license to behave like ill-bred jerks, Efron has a refreshing honesty and a disarming modesty that put him light years ahead of his competitors.
"I could show you 500 kids in
Efron didn't begin in a show business family - far from it. He was born Oct. 18, 1987, in
"I lived a normal childhood in a middle-class family," Efron insists. When I was younger, I didn't even know this business existed."
It was Efron's dad who first sensed his son's talent in the acting world and encouraged him to do high school musicals like many other kids. For a while, it was like any normal scenario where the talented son impresses family and friends with his accomplishments. But later on, professional agents started noticing the nice young man, with the bangs falling over his forehead, who was able to bewitch the women in any audience. Still, Efron admits, "I was 18 before it became a business with me," and high-powered agents swept in to make the
It's fascinating now, as thousands of screaming girls go crazy over Efron, that he looks back on the time only a few years ago when, "I wasn't a hot commodity. I was a regular dude. I had to chase chicks - they didn't chase me."
Now that the paparazzi surround Efron on a daily basis, he's anxious to affirm that "photos are just a frame of your life; they don't represent what kind of a person you are."
The successful movie version of Hairspray currently has Efron in the public eye as its appealing romantic lead, Link Larkin, which he describes as "a once-in-a-lifetime role.
"I love watching the guys who bring the cool into the story."
He also appreciates the way that "Link is all about the way that other people think and
But while Hairspray is of major importance to Efron's career, there's no doubt in anyone's mind that his performance as jock-turned-song-and-dance-dude Troy Bolton in the phenomenon known as High School Musical made him a giant star. And the enormous hype surrounding what was meant to be a throwaway entry on the Family Channel has probably proved to be the strangest thing of all to Efron.
"We made the movie with low expectations," he now admits. "And, initially, there was no phenomenon. But after we signed the contracts for the second movie, suddenly, pandemonium broke loose and there we were on Good Morning, ."
One of the amazing things about Efron is that, even when being caught in the middle of a media firestorm like the one that surrounded High School Musical, he's able to maintain a mature and valuable perspective.
"It wasn't the hype that made the movie," he insists, "it was the fans who took control. That's what I love."
But, by now, all of this is in the past and everyone is looking forward to High School Musical 2, which makes its debut at 8 p.m. on Aug. 17 on Disney's Family Channel.
"It's a blast," says Efron, "and it all takes place over summer vacation. It's a lot sexier than the first. If that one was Grease, then this one is Dirty Dancing. More romance, more summer lovin', more of the juicy stuff."
"When we'd have a day off from Hairspray, I'd put on my backpack and set out to discover this city. I'd just walk all day. That's what
Right now, Efron admits, "I'm one lucky