Tween sensation Miley Cyrus has snagged her first big movie role in the upcoming film “Hannah Montana: The Movie”. The Disney Channel and It’s A Laugh Productions have begun filming and the movie is scheduled for release in the United States next year.
The Hannah Montana film will not be released as a Disney Channel Original Movie, but instead, will be a feature length film released in cinemas worldwide.
Filming is set to take place in and around Nashville, Tennessee, and Los Angeles.
The cast includes her acclaimed television colleagues Emily Osment, Jason Earles, Mitchel Musso, Moises Arias and Billy Ray Cyrus. Appearing as well are Melora Hardin, Margo Martindale, Barry Bostwick, Peter Gunn, Lucas Till and Vanessa Williams.
Director Peter Chelsom, who has worked on movies such as “Serendipity” and “Shall We Dance?” helms this music-filled comedy adventure based on Disney Channel's blockbuster television series, “Hannah Montana,” in which Cyrus stars as a teenage girl who lives a secret life as a pop star.
Written by Dan Berendsen, who also wrote "Twitches" and "The Initiation of Sarah", the film follows Miley Stewart as Hannah Montana’s soaring popularity threatens to take over her life. With a little urging from her father, the teenager travels back to her hometown of Crowley Corners, Tennessee, to rediscover what is truly important in life.
Miley’s father, Billy Ray Cyrus, who also plays her father on the show, said the movie is centred on the fictional Stewart family's return to Tennessee and that it is only fitting for it to be shot in Tennessee, where the real-life Cyrus family also has a home.
The movie adventure is the first project of Disney’s production company “Millar/Gough Inc.” of the successful producers duo Miles Millar and Alfred Gough. The two are responsible for "The Mummy: Tomb of the Dragon Emperor", "Spider Man 2" and "Shanghai Noon". They also created and served as executive producers of the critically acclaimed action-adventure series, "Smallville", which has run for at least eight seasons.
Some very well known and important people in the industry have been roped in to work on the movie. The film is executively produced by David Blocker, Michael Poryes and Steve Peterman. Photography is directed by David Hennings while the production designer is Caroline Hanania. Christopher Lawrence will act as the costume designer, Virginia Katz as the editor, and Jamal Sims as the choreographer.
The hit Disney Channel series, “Hannah Montana,” reaches more than 164 million viewers worldwide and has ranked as the numbger 1 series among children aged 6-14 on US cable television for two consecutive years.
“Hannah Montana” has sold more than eight million CDs to date and her concert tour, “Hannah Montana & Miley Cyrus: Best of Both Worlds” was among the top-grossing tours of 2007.
Cyrus has recently completed the work on her new solo album which will be released in July on Hollywood Records. She will also be heard as one of the voices in the Disney Pictures’ upcoming animated film "Bolt".
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