We were gone for a couple of days for various reasons; not that there was a lot of news to report anyway.

High School Musical 3: Senior Year didn’t make it to number one at the box office a third week in a row. It dropped to third behind Madagascar: Escape 2 Africa and Role Models. It still made about $9.2 million giving it a worldwide total of $168.6 million so far. Considering the thing only cost $11 million to make that’s quite a big return for Disney.

I keep saying it but the more money the movie makes the bigger the chance that there will be a fourth installment of High School Musical.

High School Musical 3: Senior Year managed to stay on top of the Box Office the past weekend. It managed to make $15 million over the course of the weekend, which is obviously less than last week but still enough to stay on top. The total is at $61.8 million for now in the US but already well over $100 million worldwide. So the movie is basically already a success.

Looking at those numbers I would say it’s not a question of if there will be a High School Musical 4 (though Disney already made that intention clear) but more about when. The question just will be whether people like Vanessa Hudgens and Ashley Tisdale will be in it.

This was to be somewhat expected but it always has to happen before it can be confirmed. High School Musical: Senior Year topped the box office charts this weekend. The movie made approximately $42 million at the US box office and $40 million at the international box office. The main competition was Saw V with a box office result of $30.5 million in the US, though competition is probably the wrong term. Most people that went to see High School Musical 3 probably weren’t allowed in the Saw V theaters.

It actually did better than I expected; a move from TV to big screen is always a risky one. Looking at that result (and assuming it won’t drop off too much the next couple of weeks) I don’t think it’s a question whether there will be a fourth one. They’ll probably also try and get the old cast back as well though their salaries would have to go up considerably. I ‘m also not quite sure how a new story with the same cast would work though but that’s for Disney to figure out.

True musical fans probably won’t be too happy about it though.

So I picked up Forbes magazine today because I knew they were having something about the top earning people in entertainment. These lists really aren’t a surprise anymore; they added a top earning tweens list. Result (obviously) is that Miley Cyrus is on top of that list with an income of $25 million (together with Daniel Radcliffe but it’s well known we limit ourselves to the female side here).

She’s followed by Mary-Kate and Ashley Olsen with $15 million, Ashley Tisdale with $5.5 million, Emma Watson with $5.5 million, Hilary Duff with $5 million and Vanessa Hudgens with $3.2 million. On a side note (well not that much of a side note) Keira Knightley made the top earning actresses list with $32 million.

More than I’ve ever made in my life but I’m actually surprised there’s that much of a difference between them, I knew Miley was the biggest young star out there I just didn’t realize the financial gap was that big. She managed to earn more money in a year at fifteen that most people will earn in their entire lives (though all of the ones listed have made more than most people do in a lifetime).

At the end of the issue they also added a thing I didn’t really get: Good Girls, Bad Girls; Who makes more, the squeaky clean or the jailbird queen? On the good side they have Miley Cyrus, Hilary Duff and Lauren Conrad. While on the bad side they have Paris Hilton, Britney Spears and Lindsay Lohan. Seems a bit pointless to me really, in the end the good side wins of course.

I keep wondering where Forbes gets these numbers from though, it’s not like they can ring up the celebrity accountants and ask for the numbers. So they’re probably very well researched estimates.

Apparently Ashley Tisdale is getting further involved in the Disney empire. She’s working with Disney Channel on a show based on her own teenage years when she worked in a mall. I’d give you a source link but seeing the information is IMDB Pro that’s not exactly possible. The show is still in the pitch status though which means that they are interested in the show and that they’re now working on coming up with a more extensive story and might start work on a pilot script.

Ashley Tisdale is attached as a producer right now, it wouldn’t make much sense for her to star in it herself seeing she’s a bit old for the part now. I also would have said it’s a career killer to be on another Disney show but luckily that’s not the case. There’s no guarantee that this show will be made though, it could be killed before a pilot is even made.

Being a producer on a show isn’t really a bad thing, she’s expanding her horizons in show business that way. Who knows, she might enjoy it more than acting. Though if this show gets made I don’t know how excited I’d be about seeing about Ashley’s life in a mall or how realistic it would actually be. I can only imagine it would be loosely based on her own life.