High School Musical 3: Senior Year (2008) Trailer It’s almost graduation day for high school seniors Troy, Gabriella, Sharpay, Chad, Ryan and Taylor ― and the thought of heading off in separate directions after leaving East High has these Wildcats thinking they need to do something they’ll remember forever.
The t pain effect authorization keygen generator online 2017. ‘High School Musical’ image courtesy of Walt Disney Well, it looks like it’s time to get your head back in the game. The Disney Channel is dipping back into the High School Musical franchise for a fourth installment. The only surprise is that it took this long. The original High School Musical was something of a televised sensation when it premiered on the Disney Channel back in 2006, a clear example of a studio trying something unlike anything else in the marketplace at the time and hitting paydirt. It spawned a televised sequel in 2007 (which broke basic cable records with 17.2 million viewers on its premiere night) and a theatrical finale in October of 2008 which snagged a $42m opening weekend and earned $252m worldwide on an $11m budget. Fun fact: Its second Friday was on Halloween night, so Senior Year dropped 90% from Friday to Friday, which is still a record best I can find, before recovering for a mere 63% second-weekend drop.
That film opened on the same night as Saw V although to my recollection there were no instances of Wild Cat fans accidentally being shown Saw V prints or (better yet) Jigsaw fans accidentally being exposed to “Now or Never.” You have no idea how much I wanted a crossover film back in October 2008 with would-be incestuous siblings Sharpey and Ryan Evans (C’mon, we all knew it!) being revealed as Jigsaw’s super secret apprentices. Jeffrey Hornaday ( Teen Beach Movie, Teen Beach 2) will direct and choreograph the movie replacing trilogy helmer Kenny Ortega. Dan Berendsen and Peter Barsocchini (the latter of whom, wrote the prior trilogy) will pen this fourth installment. This fourth film will be something of a High School Musical: The Next Generation and presumably won’t involve the would-be newbies that popped up in part 3 just long enough to potentially establish them as the new crew. We can only assume said kids (who would be just finishing college) are locked in the same basement alongside the “disappeared without a trace” freshmen class of Glee season 4.
The original gee-whiz squeaky-clean musical comedy, which nonetheless boasted a worthwhile moral about being able to define yourself by more than one attribute, made a movie star out of Zac Efron and gave solid careers to the likes of Vanessa Hudgens (who recently crushed it in Grease Live) and Ashley Tisdale (who has maintained steady television gigs for the last several years). Considered the astonishing amount of money High School Musical 3 made in theaters (it outgrossed The X-Files: Fight the Future worldwide but not Sex and the City or Sex and the City 2 in terms of “TV goes to the movies” sub-genes), I am genuinely surprised that the franchise died with part 3. There has been talk since 2010 of reviving the brand, and now we’ve got something of a revamp ten years after the fact. And come what may, I am merely suggesting what the headline says. High School Musical 4 should have some kind of theatrical release.
And so for that matter should Descendents 2. If you’re reading an article about High School Musical 4, there is a good chance you know what Descendents is. But just in case, it’s a massively successful Disney Channel musical movie from last year which concerns the teen children of Disney’s famous villains who end up going to a heroes-only prep school and deciding whether or not to embrace their villainous ways. The Kenny Ortega-directed film debuted with 8 million viewers (6.6 million live and 1.4 million views on the Disney Channel streaming ap) in.
I imagine it racked up plenty more over re-airings, digital downloads, and DVD sales over the last several months. The Disney Channel green-lit a sequel back in October and the Descendents-related merchandise has been rather prevalent in my house ever since. I don’t presume to use my own children as barometers for culture at large, but my daughter isn’t that into pop culture but is really into Descendents. I don’t know when the sequel airs, but I imagine it’s going to get a lot more than 8 million viewers on “opening night.” And yes, I darn well think these films should be in theaters. Be it an outright conventional multiplex release or a special event theatrical exhibition, there is money to be made from theatrical showings of these two Disney Channel franchises from the very audience members who will still watch the televised version, buy the soundtrack, and devour the merchandise. I would say the same thing about Disney’s Tinker Bell films, which did quite well on DVD and VOD but merited only overseas theatrical play. And yes, I will argue that if Disney Toons can put Planes into theaters then they should have put the Tinker Bell movies into theaters too once upon a time.
