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FIRST LOOK: High School Musical 3: Senior Year Trailer Premieres

Originally posted 07/14/2008 11:30AM


Are Troy and Gabriella calling it quits?

High School Musical's East High power couple (played by real-life couple Zac Efron and Vanessa Hudgens) talk about saying goodbye in the first official trailer for High School Musical 3: Senior Year, which premiered today on Disney.com.

Senior Year is the musical franchise’s first installment slated for the big screen, and it looks like the HSM team has amped up the action.

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FIRST LOOK: High School Musical 3: Senior Year | Vanessa Hudgens, Zac Efron

FIRST LOOK: High School Musical 3: Senior Year

Originally posted 07/03/2008 05:15PM

High School Musical 3: Senior Year, the long-awaited big-screen version of the hit Disney Channel show, isn't due in theaters until Oct. 24, but we've got a first photo from the set to get you through the summer.

Here, Gabriella (Vanessa Hudgens) and Troy (Zac Efron) celebrate the best night of their lives – prom! – as only East High's Wildcats can: with a magical musical-dance number. "Vanessa's definitely the stronger dancer," Efron, 20, tells PEOPLE. "If I forget the next move, she'll lead me. We have to help each other, that's what we do."

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Vanessa Hudgens Reveals Secret to a Great Relationship | Vanessa Hudgens, Zac Efron

Couples

Vanessa Hudgens Reveals Secret to a Great Relationship

Originally posted 06/25/2008 11:00AM

She's only 19, but High School Musical star Vanessa Hudgens has some sage advice on love and relationships.

"If you really love someone, you shouldn't have to work at it," the actress tells Cosmo Girl! for its July/August issue, reports Entertainment Tonight. "You finish each others' sentences and have the same sense of humor."

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Zac Efron Back in High School Musical Mode | Zac Efron

Movie News

Zac Efron Back in High School Musical Mode

Originally posted 06/02/2008 01:05PM

Zac Efron is an upper classman – at last. The BMOC (Big Man on Campus) is now filming High School Musical 3: Senior Year.

"When I got there everyone was calm, collected. They were working really hard," Efron, 20, told PEOPLE about the new production while at Sunday's MTV Movie Awards, where he won the prize for best breakthrough performance for his role as heartthrob Link Larkin in last year's movie musical Hairspray.

As for resuming his role as Troy Bolton in Disney's third HSM installment – which will be a feature rather than a TV movie – Efron says, "It felt like the first two movies all over again. We just kind of can't go wrong with Kenny Ortega as our director and leader and our great cast and crew. We've got no squabbles to get through."

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Johnny Depp Takes Two MTV Movie Awards | Johnny Depp

Johnny Depp Takes Two MTV Movie Awards

Originally posted 06/01/2008 09:25PM

The stars were out in full force for MTV's movie awards – and they made sure to get in plugs for their upcoming projects.

With the golden carpet rolled out, Paris Hilton and Benji Madden came hand-in-hand, talking fashion and her show about a quest for a BFF. Audrina Patridge debuted new bangs and talked about wrapping Blue Crush 2. And while Sarah Jessica Parker talked about the record-breaking weekend opening of her new movie Sex and the City, Brendan Fraser hijacked the microphone to plug The Mummy: Tomb of the Dragon Emperor and Journey to the Center of the Earth.

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Recovering Zac Efron to Present at SAG Awards | Zac Efron

Movie News

Recovering Zac Efron to Present at SAG Awards

Originally posted 01/16/2008 02:45PM

Zac Efron has until Jan. 27 to get back on his feet – that's the night he's set to step onstage as a presenter at the 14th annual Screen Actors Guild Awards, the event's organizers have announced.

Efron, 20, is currently recuperating from an operation to remove his appendix, after being hospitalized Tuesday.

The SAG Awards are being held the Shrine Auditorium in Los Angeles, and will be broadcast on TBS and TNT. (Click here for PEOPLE's complete red carpet coverage.)

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Zac Efron Hospitalized for Appendectomy | Zac Efron

Health

Zac Efron Hospitalized for Appendectomy

Originally posted 01/15/2008 06:15PM

Zac Efron was hospitalized Tuesday for an appendectomy, his rep tells PEOPLE.

The 20-year-old High School Musical star was rushed to Cedars-Sinai Medical Center for the surgery.

"Zac had his appendix removed and is recuperating," the rep says.

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It's Official: Cast Returns for High School Musical 3 | Vanessa Hudgens, Zac Efron

It's Official: Cast Returns for High School Musical 3

Originally posted 01/14/2008 08:10PM

All six of the High School Musical stars have officially signed on for High School Musical 3: Senior Year, Walt Disney Studios Motion Picture Productions announced Monday.

Zac Efron, Vanessa Hudgens, Ashley Tisdale, Corbin Bleu, Monique Coleman and Lucas Grabeel will star in the third and final installment, a feature film. The first two movies aired to a record number of viewers on The Disney Channel.

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Zac Efron Humble About His Stardom | Zac Efron

Zac Efron Humble About His Stardom

Originally posted 01/14/2008 02:45PM

Zac Efron is not letting mega-stardom go to his head – but the paparazzi sometimes get under his skin, he says in a new interview.

"It's weird, I don't feel like I deserve any of the attention," the High School Musical star tells Details in its January/February issue. "There's really nothing but one audition for a Disney Channel movie that separates me from 2,000 other brown-haired, blue-eyed guys in L.A., you know?"

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Michelle Trachtenberg: Zac Efron Is 'the Loveliest Thing' | Michelle Trachtenberg, Zac Efron

Michelle Trachtenberg: Zac Efron Is 'the Loveliest Thing'

Originally posted 12/12/2007 05:40PM

The Celeb: Michelle Trachtenberg, the 22-year-old former star of Buffy
The Place: The Foley+Corinna store opening in West Hollywood on Tuesday
The Discussion: Her new movie costar, a certain heartthrob from a certain Disney phenomenon called High School Musical. (They're both in Seventeen with Matthew Perry.)

PEOPLE: How are you?
Michelle Trachtenberg: I'm actually really tired because I've had like three 4:30 a.m. call times in a row and I have a 6 a.m. tomorrow.

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