High School Musical 3: Senior Year

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Now high school seniors, Troy Bolton (Zac Efron) and Gabriella Montez (Vanessa Hudgens) are facing the prospect of being separated from each other as they go off in different directions when graduating from East High. Joined by the rest of their Wildcat friends, including Sharpay Evans (Ashley Tisdale), Ryan Evans (Lucas Grabeel), Chad Danforth (Corbin Bleu), and Taylor McKessie (Monique Coleman) they stage an elaborate spring musical reflecting their experiences, hopes and fears about the future.

Cast
Zac Efron as Troy Bolton
Vanessa Hudgens as Gabriella Montez
Ashley Tisdale as Sharpay Evans
Lucas Grabeel as Ryan Evans
Corbin Bleu as Chad Danforth
Monique Coleman as Taylor McKessie
Olesya Rulin as Kelsi Nielsen
Ryne Sanborn as Jason Cross
Chris Warren, Jr. as Zeke Baylor
Kaycee Stroh as Martha Cox
Alyson Reed as Ms. Darbus
Bart Johnson as Jack Bolton
Leslie Wing as Lucille Bolton
Jemma McKenzie-Brown as Tiara Gold
Matt Prokop as Jimmie Zara
Justin Martin as Donny Fox

Detail Info
Directed by Kenny Ortega
Produced by Bill Borden, Barry Rosenbush, Don Schain (co-producer)
Written by Peter Barsocchini
Music by

• David Lawrence
• Matthew Gerrard
• Robbie Nevil
• Shankar Mahadevan
• Randy Peterson
• Antonnia Armato
• Andy Dodd
• Faye Greenberg
• Jamie Houston
• Adam Watts
• Kevin Quinn

Cinematography Daniel Aranyo
Editing by Seth Flaum
Distributed by Walt Disney Pictures
Release date(s) October 24, 2008
Country United States
Language English
Budget $13.3 million
Preceded by High School Musical 2

MySpace to launch "High School Musical" contest

Tuesday September 2 1:16 AM ET

MySpace plans to launch a contest on Tuesday to market the latest in Walt Disney Co's blockbuster franchise "High School Musical 3" in what the News Corp Internet social network called its biggest film campaign to date.

Disney is hoping to build interest in the third movie in its hit television films series, and the first to hit theaters, by tapping MySpace's estimated 76 million unique users as of July, according to comScore.

Some 40 percent of U.S. mothers are also members of MySpace, according to comScore, which a MySpace spokesman said was one reason why the family and kids entertainment-focused Disney selected MySpace to promote one of the studio's biggest hits.

Schools are pitted against each other as high school seniors compete by completing undisclosed online tasks involving uploading photos, filming and uploading videos, and decorating their profile pages to see which school has the most "school spirit," said Angela Courtin, MySpace's senior vice president of marketing.

Unlike sweepstakes where users do little more than sign up, the contest entails weeks of participation on the Internet, offline and using cellphones to send text messages. The contest ends on November 3.

Courtin called the so-called integrated marketing campaign a "continuation of a dialogue between the franchise, MySpace and the user."

Winners will receive a free trip for the entire class to a Disney theme park and a pep really featuring U.K. pop star Natasha Bedingfield.

"High School Musical 3" opens in theaters in the United States on October 24.

(Reporting by Kenneth Li; Editing by Phil Berlowitz)

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