hannahmontana Tagged Articles at Cinematical
Miley Cyrus Hates Twilight, Debuts New Trailer
Filed under: Romance », Fandom », Trailers and Clips »
Teen icon Miley Cyrus can't do anything these days without causing a stir of some kind. The only thing I can't figure out is if she does it on purpose or just has a bad case of her mouth running away with her. During a recent backstage interview with the singer/actress, Cyrus was asked the defining question of our generation: "Team Edward or Team Jacob?" Well, it turns out the answer is neither, and she told journalists, "I've never seen [Twilight], nor will I. I don't believe in it. I don't like vampires, I don't like the wolf that pops out of the screen when I'm watching TV at night, I don't want anything to do with it." (Oh snap! There's going to be a tween-off. Just think, it will be like West Side Story but with glitter and blond wigs!) Personally, I think she was trying to make a joke, and if she was, her comedy skills definitely need a little work.Now, the cynic in me would mark the fact that this latest headline to spring from the tween sensation is just in time for the release of the trailer of her new romantic weepie, The Last Song. So what better way to get teen girls' attention than to bad-mouth their hunk(s) of the moment? Last Song stars Cyrus as a piano prodigy reconnecting with her father (played by Greg Kinnear) and falling in love, but this is a Nicholas Sparks story, so I can only assume somebody is going to die or get a horrible disease before the flick is through. The film is Cyrus' latest attempt to shed her Hannah Montana image and was the next step in becoming a serious actress. But now we'll have to see if she lives long enough to avoid a Cullen-inspired vendetta.
After the jump: the trailer for The Last Song and Cyrus' take on Twilight...
GameStop Offers Some Sucky Games for Movie Stubs
Filed under: Fandom », Tech Stuff »
In an interesting video game/movie tie-in, GameStop has a promo running until June 30, 2009 ("or until all e-Movie Cash tickets have been distributed, whichever comes first," natch) called "Love the Movie - Live the Game," and it's definitely a mixed bag.Basically, if you buy one of the following games, you can get a $10 voucher for select movies at participating theaters that's only good until July 31, 2009. That's a lot of ifs, especially if you check out the games they're offering, which are not all tied in to current releases. And some of them will make real gaming geeks bleed from the eyes. Take a look.
Lamest. Movie Pirate. Ever.
No, it's not one of those large-living, seaman-snatching Somali pirates to blame for those shoddy stolen copies of Hannah Montana: The Movie hitting the streets already. In fact, if you believe Gerardo Arellano, who was arrested along with his wife Maribel Fernandez last weekend for illegally filming the movie in the theater, his mom is to blame.According to the Chicago Tribune, Arellano said of the 44,000 pirated movies found in his home, "my mother saved all of the DVDs, CDs and videos...She saves those." His mom is also selling the stolen movies on a French website, I guess, since his computer turned up a link to such a site during the investigation.
His kids are big fans of Hannah Montana, too. Maybe they were in on it.
On the other hand, at least he didn't wish on Miley/Hannah various venereal diseases and drug habits as per class act Jamie Foxx.
Review: Jonas Brothers: The 3D Concert Experience
Filed under: Documentary », Music & Musicals », Disney », Theatrical Reviews », Family Films »
Last November, around the time that Bolt came out, I was offered with a night's notice a phone interview with Miley Cyrus. Despite my completist habit of seeing pretty much all theatrical releases in a given year, I decided to make an exception with Miley's 3D concert movie, an exception which had now come to haunt me in the most unexpected of ways. To my luck, the film happened to be instantly available through Netflix, and so I sat at my computer for 75 minutes, confirming all that I had been told the previous spring: it was a fine flick for her fans, and equally harmless and pointless to anyone else.
Anyhow, Ms. Cyrus stood me up, but I bring up that story for two reasons: one, to pad my word count, and two, to assure you that I know I am not the ideal audience for Jonas Brothers: The 3D Concert Experience, that I know that you know this, and that you know already whether or not you're interested, pumped, and/or psyched -- and chances are that if you are any of those things, then you won't be disappointed.
The Jonas Brothers May Ask You to Move Down So They Can Sit Together
Filed under: Music & Musicals », Disney », RumorMonger », Box Office », Fandom »
We just got a press release saying that the Jonas Brothers are teaming up with Marquis Jet to cross the country and pop up in random cities over this weekend to celebrate the release of their 3D concert film. We really interpret this press release to say that ticket pre-sales aren't as gonzo as those for Ms. Miley Montana were this time last year, and here's a gimmick that'll make sure the kids turn up just in case the Brothers decide to.Just imagine, though: Kevin, Joe and Nick show up at your theater. They sit right behind you, kicking your chair and asking each other how awesome they were at this part and that part. They couldn't text behind you and spill popcorn on your lap at just any old concert now, could they?
The 3D experience will kick Coraline off of those digitally-dedicated screens this Friday (so hurry up already if you haven't gone!), and the IMAX experience in particular will only last for a week after that before getting booted in favor of a movie that only two of the three brothers are actually old enough to see...
The Day Hannah Montana Made History
Filed under: Documentary », Music & Musicals », Disney », Exhibition »
By: Christopher Campbell (original publish date: February 3, 2008)
(With the Cine-staff off on a late-July mini-vacation, we thought it'd be fun to bring you some of our favorite pieces from months past. Enjoy!)
Today, as millions of (mostly) men are watching the Super Bowl, possibly witnessing the Patriots make history (sorry Erik), millions of (mostly) girls are watching Miley Cyrus (aka "Hannah Montana") make history of her own. As you read this, across the country the 3D concert film Hannah Montana/Miley Cyrus: Best of Both Worlds Concert Tour is selling out its show times for the day. Actually, it's more likely that at many theaters show times have long been sold out.
On Friday, when the Disney release opened, I took a look at the status of the weekend show times in the tri-state area on Moviefone, Movietickets.com and Fandango. Most times were already unavailable. But I had no way of knowing how recently those times had sold out, because tickets went on sale back on December 1, and many people (our own Kim Voynar and her daughter included) bought theirs way in advance. As Kim mentioned last week, Fandango announced that more than 1,000 show times had already been sold out and that theaters were trying to squeeze in more screenings. The online ticketing company also announced that since December 1, the film has been one of its top selling titles and that this past week the film accounted for 91% of all the company's online ticket sales (compared to 1% each for Rambo, 27 Dresses and Cloverfield).
The Exhibitionist: Journey to the Cinema for an Astonishing 3-D Experience
Filed under: Action », Sci-Fi & Fantasy », New Releases », New Line », Tech Stuff », Exhibition », Family Films », Columns »
I don't know the last time I felt like a kid at the movies, but while watching Journey to the Center of the Earth 3-D this past week, I honestly reverted to my 8-year-old self. That isn't to say the movie is necessarily as good as the movies that astonished me as a kid -- because of the subject matter, I'd think about comparing it to Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom and The Goonies, both of which came out when I was around that age, and neither to which this film holds up in terms of originality or storytelling craft. But as far as holding onto my sense of wonder, Journey is up there.
Of course, it's necessary to point out that Journey would be nothing without the digital 3-D factor. It's actually the first live-action narrative feature to be shot and released in the new format (the non-fiction concert films, U2 3D and Hannah Montana/Miley Cyrus: Best of Both Worlds Concert Tour were technically the first live-action 3-D features), and while it's far from perfect, it is a terrific pioneer. I shall continue favoring the look of animated 3-D films, especially those directed as well as Monster House, and I anticipate that James Cameron's Avatar will blow away all live-action 3-D films released prior to its arrival. For now, though, I'm telling you, with the utmost cinemaphilic urgency: you need to see this ASAP.
The Exhibitionist: Live Music, Dead Cinema
Filed under: Sony », Exhibition », Columns »
There was a time in my life when I spent more of my weekends going to concerts than going to the movies. And many of those concerts were fittingly at a venue that had previously been a movie theater. Back then, though, I never thought about the significance of seeing The Mighty Mighty Bosstones in the same place I once watched A Nightmare on Elm Street 4. There was a fine distinction between live music and cinema.
Unlike now, when there's an ever growing feeling that for the exhibition industry cinema is dead, while live music is, umm, live. The signs have been visible for the past year: Garth Brooks selling out multiplexes; a Hannah Montana/Miley Cyrus concert coming in at #1 at the box office. But nothing made the future seem as clear as last month's news that National Amusements is going into the live entertainment business.
The theater chain, which also technically owns most of Viacom, has apparently seen enough interest in live entertainment through "experiments" at its fancy Cinema De Lux locations that it will begin operating venues strictly for live entertainment, which will be called Showcase Live! (a name similar to the company's Showcase Cinemas brand of multiplexes). The first is set to open this August, and while it's the only one apparently planned out so far, the company expects to open three to five more within the next few years.
Shocking but True: Hannah Montana Will Stick Around for Another Week
Filed under: Music & Musicals », Disney », Box Office », Fandom », Exhibition », Family Films »
Whoo, I bet you couldn't have seen this coming: after bringing in a whopping $29 million on just 683 screens and selling out shows left and right, the Hannah Montana/Miley Cyrus: Best of Both Worlds Concert Tour has added another week to its one-week limited engagement. This will be great news to all the Hannah fans out there who weren't able to score a ticket the first time around, or who just want to enjoy another week of Hannah-mania. Variety's Pam McClintock noted that the concert's take is the highest Super Bowl weekend gross of all-time, outscoring even mega-hit Titanic*.My oldest daughter contributed to Titanic's box office by seeing the film something like 20 times with her friends when it was in theaters, and now I expect her 10-year-old sister is going to want to see the Hannah Montana concert at least that many times. The first thing she said on the way out of the theater Friday night was, "Can we go again?" Superbowl weekend is typically heavy on the estrogen, but Disney really scored big with the tween set by making the wildly popular Best of Both Worlds concert available in theaters.
*Typo corrected, thanks to reader Ler for pointing it out. - ed.
The Exhibitionist: Hannah Montana Makes History
Filed under: Documentary », Music & Musicals », New Releases », Disney », Box Office », Fandom », Exhibition », Columns »
Today, as millions of (mostly) men are watching the Super Bowl, possibly witnessing the Patriots make history (sorry Erik), millions of (mostly) girls are watching Miley Cyrus (aka "Hannah Montana") make history of her own. As you read this, across the country the 3D concert film Hannah Montana/Miley Cyrus: Best of Both Worlds Concert Tour is selling out its show times for the day. Actually, it's more likely that at many theaters show times have long been sold out.
On Friday, when the Disney release opened, I took a look at the status of the weekend show times in the tri-state area on Moviefone, Movietickets.com and Fandango. Most times were already unavailable. But I had no way of knowing how recently those times had sold out, because tickets went on sale back on December 1, and many people (our own Kim Voynar and her daughter included) bought theirs way in advance. As Kim mentioned last week, Fandango announced that more than 1,000 show times had already been sold out and that theaters were trying to squeeze in more screenings. The online ticketing company also announced that since December 1, the film has been one of its top selling titles and that this past week the film accounted for 91% of all the company's online ticket sales (compared to 1% each for Rambo, 27 Dresses and Cloverfield).
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