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It has been a long time rumor/possibility but now it’s confirmed: Teen Witch is going to be rebooted with Ashley Tisdale singing in the title role. Tisdale spoke to HollywoodLife about the musical addition to the 80’s teen film:

“In the original, you know, Robin Lively didn’t sing at all, even though other girls performed. But the studio said ‘Hey, you’re a singer, right?’” the High School Musical starlet confirmed to HollywoodLife.com at Burberry’s digital 3-D Autumn/Winter 2010 show in Los Angeles Feb. 23. “They reworked the script so it can be more of a musical,” she additionally revealed.

She also hinted that this version will start filming at the end of the year. What do you think?

Here is a brand new sneak peek at the Disney Channel Original Movie: Camp Rock 2: The Final Jam. The original cast returns with Demi Lovato, Joe Jonas, Nick Jonas, Kevin Jonas, and more are all in for the sequel to the wildly popular first movie. The DCOM will premiere this summer, 2010.

Fox has given the go ahead for another full season of it’s mega hit show Glee. The freshman series, which just won a People’s Choice Award for Favorite New TV Comedy, is also casting for 3 new members of the show. Open auditions will be held for unknowns and professionals between the ages of 16 and 26. The process of choosing the newest members will be made into a TV special itself and the winners announced in the fall.

Keep your eye on Fox’s Glee website for all the details to submit your audition tape.

Possible pairing: teen star Vanessa Hudgens may be the daughter to super diva Mariah Carey. The two are both in talks to star in a musical comedy based on singing competition shows like American Idol and X Factor.

“Vanessa Hudgens has already been approached for the daughter role. The only sticking point seems to be whether Mariah feels comfortable playing mom to a teenager. She’s a little sensitive when it comes to her age.”

Could be interesting.

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Amber Riley (Mercedes), Mark Salling (Puck) and Cory Montieth (Finn) of the hit show Glee were on hand on December 3rd in New York City to participate in Carol-oke, a contest sponsored by retailers TJ Maxx and Marshalls to benefit Toys for Tots. The cast had a great time and Montieth had fun antlers on to show his holiday spirit.

Wanna help Toys for Tots and have some fun? Here’s how:

Carol-oke is a contest being run by Marshalls & TJ Maxx. You can still play along! All you have to do is go to Marshalls and T.J. Maxx’s holiday YouTube channel, www.youtube.com/jointhecarolers, watch one of the two unique carols, then upload a video of you singing one of them! For each video $1 will be donated toward Toys for Tots, to purchase gifts for a child in need. If that’s not enough incentive, by uploading a video you are also eligible to win a $5,000 shopping spree. Tis the season to do something charitable!

I love Glee - I am a Gleek.

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Taylor Swift was both host and musical guest for Saturday Night Live this past weekend. The country superstar really showed her sense of humor in her SNL opening song. She did briefly mention Kanye West and the VMA’s, Taylor Lautner and Joe Jonas! Funny stuff from the teen.

After his successful turn on Broadway in the play Equus, Daniel Radcliffe may make a return to live theater. This time the actor is the first cast member tapped for a reading of the 1961 musical How To Succeed In Business Without Really Trying. The December reading, if it’s well received, may turn into a full-fledged Great White Way show. Now that would be interesting - a musical with Radcliffe as the star.

Camp Rock 2: The Final Jam is currently filming in Ontario Canada and according to costar Anna Maria Perez de Tagle, Disney is stepping it up a notch.

“People are going to be surprised by Camp Rock 2,” Anna tells [OK! Magazine.] “It’s gonna be a good movie You’ll see amazing songs by the Jonas Brothers, Demi has an amazing song. Just bigger and better dance numbers. It’s more intense this time. It’s more of a musical, so people will look forward to that.”

The pressure is on Disney after the first Camp Rock was such a suprise hit but with Demi Lovato, The Jonas Brothers and all the original cast returning for the sequel, this movie should be great.

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The only new show on tonight opposite President Obama’s health care reform speech was on FOX. Glee had it’s season premiere tonight and the show is just getting better and better. If you haven’t seen Glee yet - check out the review from Kristen Dos Santos’s Watch with Kristen column at E!Online.

Should you watch Glee? Read on…

Glee is top-notch TV. Should you watch? Hell yes.

That sums it up nicely. Hope you tuned in!

Check out the season 1 director’s cut episode on hulu.com.

As always tell us what you think…

Lots of big movies opening this weekend, including the teen musical ‘Bandslam’ and star Gaelen Connell wants you to know it’s different than ‘High School Musical.’ With the obvious similarities of costar Vanessa Hudgens and having a musical competition central to it’s theme, Connell says that is where the comparisons should end.

“This is like an actual high school for the 95 percent of us who were kind of friends with popular kids, then kind of friends with the not popular kids, and I think it’s pretty interesting to see that in a Hollywood film because it’s usually so black and white. You know, there’s a cheerleader, then like I said, there’s McLovin. This is not like that at all, it’s very edgy and real.”

Check out his interview with MTV and hear him declare Taylor Swift is “super hot.”
Who’s going to see this tomorrow? Are you just going for the ‘New Moon’ trailer?

A pairing made in Hollywood heaven if it actually happens - Miley Cyrus and Zac Efron are being talked about to be in the updated version of the classic beach film series ‘Gidget.’

Said flick is envisioned to be the first in a long-line of “Gidget” movies. The musical-comedy will feature popstress Cyrus in the titular role, that of a young girl who discovers surfing and love (in that order) during one transitive summer. Efron is, we suspect, being sought to play the love interest.

All this is speculative still and it seems unlikely that Efron would join this because he has turned away from musical movies (‘Footloose.‘) Brittany Snow, Efron’s co-star from ‘Hairspray’ is also part of the equation that execs would like to have happen.

Spiderman is getting the Broadway musical treatment and Evan Rachel Wood will be on board. ‘Spider-Man: Turn Off The Dark’  will begin preview performances in February of 2010 at the Hilton theater in New York City. Wood will portray Mary Jane, spidey’s girlfriend. No word yet on the casting of the radioactive spider bitten guy Peter Parker, who woos Mary Jane and fights crime but we will keep you posted.

Wood also joins HBO’s vampire series ‘True Blood’  for a couple of episodes later this season.