Taylor Swift Films Cameo Role For “Hannah Montana”
Taylor Swift Films Cameo Role For “Hannah Montana”
In a welcome announcement, the highly anticipated “Hannah Montana: The Movie” currently being filmed in and around Nashville features a cameo role from Nashville native and country sensation Taylor Swift.
The 18-year-old award winning Swift filmed her role a week ago, playing herself and singing one of her own songs in the background of a scene.
American Idol contestant Bucky Covington and fellow country singers Rascal Flatts also appear in the movie. All three acts are also signed to Disney’s Lyric Street Records.
Miley Cyrus and her dad Billy Ray Cyrus both star in the Hannah Montana movie, due out in theaters next year (2009).
Selena Gomez: No Feuding With Miley Cyrus
Selena Gomez wants everyone to know she’s not feuding with Miley Cyrus.
For about the past six weeks, Gomez has been dubbed “the next Miley Cyrus,” with Disney execs hoping to fast-track Gomez into even bigger stardom because they were getting nervous about some of the controversies surrounding the Hannah Montana star.
The 15-year-old Gomez stars in the Disney Channel hit Wizards of Waverly Place.
“It’s a little overwhelming, but I think really, it’s a compliment,” Gomez told me of the Cyrus comparisons. “She’s obviously extremely successful, and I think she’s a wonderful performer…So being compared to her, I was very, very flattered.”
I caught up with Gomez on Saturday over some Crumbs cupcakes at a press day promoting her upcoming fall movie, Another Cinderella Story. (I’ll have more on the flick closer to its September release.)
Gomez and Cyrus have even had a good laugh about their so-called feuding. “We’re literally like, It’s fine. It’s all good,” Gomez recalled. “She’s Miley and I’m Selena.”
No doubt the comparisons will fire up again when Gomez’s first album debuts. However, if it’s up to Gomez, you won’t find her doing it alone. “I’m not going to be a solo artist,” the Texas native insisted. “I want to be in a band with four other guys.”
Gomez is keeping mum on a release date because her record deal isn’t official yet. “Soon, soon, soon,” she said with a laugh. “I can say that for sure.”
Gomez’s rise in Hollywood isn’t the only thing she’s celebrating these days. She’s got a party planned for her Sweet 16 in July.
“I’d like to have a huge, fun and crazy cake,” Gomez said. “I kind of want a Mad Hatter style cake like Ashlee Simpson and Pete Wentz’s [wedding] cake. I want to have karaoke, and I’m going to have a photo booth. It’s going to be really just strictly family and friends.”
Hannah Montana Scoops Up Swift
Hannah Montana is getting a little bit (more) country.
Nashville ingénue Taylor Swift has filmed a cameo role in Hannah Montana: The Movie.
The 18-year-old Swift filmed the brief part a week ago, playing herself and singing one of her own songs in the background of a scene.
She joins fellow country-fried singers Rascal Flatts and American Idol alum Bucky Covington, who also appear in the flick. Not so coincidentally, all three acts are signed to Disney’s Lyric Street Records.
Billy Ray and Miley Cyrus star in the Hannah Montana movie, due out in 2009. It’s currently filming in and around Nashville.
Sneak Preview of Disney’s Bolt
Movie Surfers has a short look at Disney’s upcoming computer animated film Bolt. Miley Cyrus gives us a sneak preview at her character and in production footage from the upcoming film. Rumor has it that the first trailer for Bolt will be attached to Pixar’s WALL-E, which hits theaters on June 27th.
For super-dog Bolt (voiced by John Travolta), every day is filled with adventure, danger and intrigue – at least until the cameras stop rolling. When the canine star of a hit TV show is accidentally shipped from his Hollywood soundstage to New York City, he begins his biggest adventure yet – a cross-country journey through the real world. Armed only with the delusions that all his amazing feats and powers are real, and with the help of two unlikely traveling companions – a jaded, abandoned housecat named Mittens (voiced by Susie Essman), and TV-obsessed hamster in a plastic ball named Rhino – Bolt discovers he doesn’t need superpowers to be a hero. Miley Cyrus (“Hannah Montana”) brings her vocal talents to the role of Penny, Bolt’s human co-star on the television series.
Bolt will hit theaters on November 26th, 2008 in Disney Digital 3-D™.