“Hannah Montana: The Movie” comes out on Disney Blu-Ray and DVD tomorrow, August 18th, and to celebrate we have all the juicy deets on the behind-the-scenes of the movie!
Also check out a video clip of Jason Earles interviewing Miley Cyrus and Lucas Till above, and the video below of Lucas Till’s photo shoot for the “Hannah Montana: The Movie” release to DVD.
BEHIND THE MAGIC
Step behind the camera as we bring you the low-down on Hannah Montana The Movie. We’ve got a backstage pass to the making of the fab film – and you’re invited!
THE STORY…
What’s Hannah Montana The Movie all about? “Well, my character has always had the best of both worlds – but she’ll have to choose just one in the movie,” explains Miley Cyrus. “She’s lost herself and her dad decides the best thing to do is to take her home to Tennessee. She’s taken back to the real world where she’s brought back to reality. She has to go out and get dirty, as well as ride the horse she grew up with!”
BOX OF DELIGHTS!
“I bought some cool ideas to the movie,” admits Miley. “There’s something we call a ‘Hannah box’ in the film, which is Hannah’s make-up box. She travels around with it and it was me who came up with ideas for the fun things to put inside. I said that it shouldn’t look like a normal make-up box because Hannah has a different vibe. I think it came out really cool!”
STUNT HERO!
Jason Earles – who plays Miley’s brother Jackson in Hannah Montana – performed all of his own stunts in the movie. “I didn’t have a stunt double,” the brave star reveals. “I did everything myself. When you see Jackson falling off the ladder, that was me harnessed up!”
KISSY KISSY!
Miley gets to kiss a cute country boy called Travis in the movie – but the Disney star wasn’t nervous about the smooch scenes at all. “I wasn’t worried about my first movie kiss,” reveals Miley. “I don’t know… Maybe it’s because he’s so cute?!”
PONY UP!
It took three weeks for Lucas Till to learn to ride a horse for the film. “I hadn’t ridden a horse before I worked on this movie,” chuckles Lucas. “My dad did rodeo for the University Of Georgia and always had horse stories, but I hadn’t even been on a horse before. Thankfully, it felt natural to me – and it was a lot of fun.”
ANIMAL MAGIC!
“I shot a lot of scenes that didn’t make it into the movie, but I’m glad they made it onto the DVD,” reveals Jason Earles. “There were a few extra scenes with the animals and some other scenes with Cousin Derek – and I they’re really funny. Check them out!”
EXTRA EXTRA!
What else does the DVD have to offer? “Well, there are bloopers and behind-the-scenes videos, as well as deleted scenes,” explains the movie’s director, Peter Chelsom. “One deleted scene sees the British reporter walking into his motel room to find an ostrich by his bed and an alligator in his shower!”
LIGHTS, CAMERA, ACTION…
It took 11 weeks to shoot the movie. The cast and crew spent eight and a half weeks filming in Nashville, close to where Miley Cyrus actually grew up. The rest of the film shoot was spent on location in California at landmarks including Santa Monica Pier and Rodeo Drive.
TIME TO CHILL…
The waterfall scene was tough on the actors in the movie. “It was freezing,” giggles Miley. “It was a big challenge because we had to rock climb up to the top of this cliff and then jump into the water from up high. Thankfully there were heaters nearby because the water was so cold. It was icy!”
THE STYLE FILES!
“None of the outfits Hannah wears in the movie were brought in stores,” reveals the movie’s costume designer, Christopher Lawrence. “They were all designed and made by the costume department. We even hand-glued crystals to her sneakers for one scene. It took 13 hours per shoe!”
MADE TO MEASURE!
It cost $70,000 to build the revolving doors seen in the movie. “The building where we were shooting didn’t have revolving doors, but I thought they would work really well in the film,” explains director, Peter Chelsom. “That’s why I decided to build them from scratch!”
TICKLE TIME!
Emily Osment spent four hours getting her feet massaged for one of the scenes in the movie. “It was great,” chuckles Emily. “They didn’t need me in the shot because it was only my feet – but I kept saying, ‘No, I’ll do it. It’s okay.’ I really enjoyed sitting in bed getting my feet rubbed!”
HIGH HEEL HORROR!
“It was so much fun to shoot the shoe scene with Tyra Banks,” reveals Miley. “But the problem with that scene is the way that the shoes aren’t really very cute. I would never fight over those shoes in real life!”
**RANDOM FACTS TO DROP AROUND THE FEATURE**
FAST FACT!
It took two days to film the exploding cake scene in the movie! “I was covered in cream and sponge for hours,” giggles Moises Arias.
DID YOU KNOW?
It took the prop team three weeks to create the pumpkin head for the scene where Jackson falls into the pumpkin patch!
Click here to learn all about the Bloopers from the Hannah Montana movie!
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Every week Disney Dreaming brings you the top ten stories from the past week! Take a look at them below and let us know which one you found to be the number one biggest news of the last week.
1. Miley Cyrus continues to fight publicly over Twitter with her ex boyfriend Justin Gaston. Do you think they will end up getting back together? We’re not so sure!
2. Taylor Swift put out a new promotional commercial for the MTV Video Music Awards and she looks and sounds fantastic! Check out the video here.
3. Emily Osment took over Radio Disney and premiered her new single “All The Way Up.” Check out the interview and listen to the song debut here.
4. Zac Efron will be in a new movie called “Spin,” however the movie is said to be far from kid-friendly. Yikes!
5. Joe Jonas is no longer a teenager! On August 15th middle Jo-Bro, Joe, turned 20-years-old! Happy Birthday Joe!
6. Miley Cyrus’ brother Trace Cyrus, singer for the band Metro Station, dissed Nick, Joe and Kevin Jonas in a recent interview. Check out all the not-so-nice things he had to say here.
7. “Hannah Montana: The Movie” comes out on DVD tomorrow, August 18th, and in honor of the movie we had some super funny bloopers from the filming to share with you! If you missed them you definitely need to check them out – and let the laughter begin!
8. Rumor has it that Disney’s Miley Cyrus is in talks to star in the upcoming “Sex And The City” movie sequel.
9. Miley Cyrus finished filming “The Last Song” in Georgia last week. She was really upset about it, but seems to be doing better now!
10. Selena Gomez spilled the dirt on how she came up with her band name: “Selena Gomez And The Scene.” Find out here!
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The Walt Disney Company is producing new movie memory cards (Panasonic Micro SD cards) in Japan. These memory cards will hold your favorite Disney movies and can be easily played on your portable devices including iPods.
The movie packages will include the regular DVD copy of the film along with the memory card that has the movie downloaded onto it.
The memory cards will be added to the DVD packages this November. The total cost for both the DVD and the memory card will be $53, rather than the normal $43 in Japan for the DVD alone.
The first two Disney movies to be released in this format will be “Pirates of the Caribbean” and “National Treasure.”
Sounds cool huh?
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On his birthday, August 15th, Joe Jonas dressed up as a giant birthday cake during the Jonas Brothers soundcheck performance!
We love Joe’s costumes and think this is one of his most creative efforts! What do you think?
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We’re curious if Mitchel Musso has a new television show that is in the works. Recently Mitchel has been having some meetings with the executives at the Walt Disney Company – and he’s been tweeting about it!
Yes, Mitchel is on tour right now for his debut album titled “Mitchel Musso,” and he is under the Walt Disney Records record label, however it sounds like the meetings he is attending have to do with something other than his music.
Also, most of the time the meetings about the concert tour happen before the artist is actually on tour, rather than during.
On August 10th Mitchel Tweeted, “I have been in meetings ALL day long with Disney! Lot’s of fun! Those guys are AMAZING! and make my life fun!”
And then today he added, “Catching a plane to LA & straight on into the Mouse for some interesting work today! Seriously excited! Can’t even explain it! Love Disney!”
If the work is “interesting” we doubt that he means he is going in to negotiate his role on Hannah Montana, because that would be something he could share with fans. Whatever Mitchel is working on it’s something he can’t tell us about – and we’re crossing our fingers that he’s getting his own show! But who knows, with the recent launches of the JONAS clothing line and Miley Cyrus’ clothing line, perhaps Mitchel has one in the works too? And we think it’s far too soon for him to be working on a second album…
What do you think he’s up to?
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