Ric Robertson Taking Paid Summer Hiatus From Movie Academy … 
‘The Big C’ Finale Airs On Showtime Tonight 
Obama Scandals Bring MSNBC 7-Year Low While Fox News Rises 
Ang Lee Departs FX Pilot ‘Tyrant’ 
DreamWorks Eyes January For ‘Glimmer’ And Dylan … 
Warner Bros TV & ‘Smallville’ Co-Creators … 
How Many Times Does Seth MacFarlane Have To Say No To The … 
UPFRONTS 2013: TV Spinoffs’ Almost Perfect Year 
OSCARS: Animated Feature Rule Change 
Cannes: Relativity Sets ‘Hunger Games’ Liam … 
RATINGS RAT RACE: Billboard Awards Surge From 2012, … 
Cannes: Park Chan-wook’s ‘Sympathy For Mr. … 
Cannes: Stanley Weiser To Script ‘Three Graves … 
Yahoo CEO Foresees Big Opportunities To Sell Ads On Tumblr 
Disney, Lucasfilm Animation Prep ‘Star Wars … 
Cannes: Deadline Crashes Palais Forum With Costa Gavras, … 
Hammond On Cannes: Sun Comes Out As Parties, Deals And … 
Kelly Rowland, Paulina Rubio In Talks To Join ‘X … 
‘Fast & Furious 6′ Breaks Records In … 
Specialty Box Office: ‘Frances Ha’ Triumphs As … 
‘Star Trek Into Darkness’ $164.5M Global: Lower … 
Disney has assembled the cast of Prom, its high-school comedy feature revolving around a group of teens and the emotional ups and downs they go through prepping for the big dance. The studio stuck to its original plan to cast mostly unknown young actors as the leads in the movie, which is eyed as a potential launching pad for a franchise in the mold of High School Musical and whose tone is said to be similar to John Hughes’ Sixteen Candles and Pretty in Pink. Cast as the leads in Prom are: Thomas McDonell, Aimee Teegarden (Friday Night Lights), Danielle Campbell, Nolan Sotillo, Yin Chang (Gossip Girl), Jared Kusnitz (Surviving Suburbia), Nicholas Braun (10 Things I Hate About You), Ben Esler (The Pacific), Kylie Bunbury and DeVaughn Nixon. Joe Nussbaum is directing from a script by Katie Wech. Ted Griffin and Justin Springer are producing.
TV Editor Nellie Andreeva - tip her here.
Loading ...
When a studio calls a movie “John Hughes in tone,” it usually is code for “this movie is super soft and will appeal only to tweens.” I will be very surprised if this movie has even a tenth of the humor, heart, and angst of a John Hughes film.
Even at the logline level this is vastly inferior: a bunch of teens prepare for and go to prom is way less original and interesting to me than a teen’s family forgets her sixteenth birthday.
your just rude.
Reserve judgement until you watch. Wech’s script is phenomenal and strikes that perfect tone. It reads very authentic. They cast great actors (not stars) and the director has had flashes of brilliance, mixed with moments of mediocrity. I think under the new Disney administration, PROM could be a Hughes-esque film.
Per the Trainwreck factor, I don’t think any of the cast is under 18. So…hopefully no new Lohans.
Sadly, the first thing I thought was: launching pad for tomorrow’s trainwrecks. These kids take the Disney nonsense to heart and on the path to their “Next-Big-Part” end up in Club Sunset Strip. I firmly believe that the kid actors should have a solid resume, good grades, and their parents should be more thoroughly interviewed than the kids.
I got great greads. I got all A’S one B AND thats all. i’d love to be on Disney that has been my dream ever since Miley C. got bg. She was 11 Just like me. She got home schooled and that is great. I’d love to do that. Man i Wish my dad my dad could sing so i would be liek them. My mom can but my dad cant.
( Like miley her dad can sing and so it does mak scents to what i am talking about.)
Nyla H.
WHAT THE HECK…Okay why do they doi that? I can sing i can dance, I can do anythink they can do but for some reason i can get famos. I am on youtube ( Nylamogirl) and i am trying to get big but i cant get there. they get lucky or have been born in to it and they dont think about the people who can do better that cant get famouse. ai CAN JUST SCREAM ABOUT HOW I TRYED CALLING EVERY NEWS CREW EVERY RADIEO STAION AND GOT TURNED DOWN. But if anyone can get me there id be willin to take a rde. I am eleven years old and id like to be famose like veryone else. Or even get the second look bye4 anyone. Or get lucky. (Not posible with my luck but anythin could happen.) I am not shy an did be perfect for any job, that is age apporite.
Nyla H. despret 11 year old/ mad 11 year old.
Really happy for Amiee Teegarden, fantastic actor and an even bettter kid!!!
Go Wech!
Is everyone else just going to ignore how creepy those above posts are?
Danielle Campbell starred with Sterling Knight in the recent Disney Channel movie “Starstruck.” She reminds me of Katie Holmes back in the “Dawson’s Creek” days.
I worked a with Nicholas Braun on 10 Things and he’s a great actor and exceptionally nice, down to earth kid. Great things ahead for him!
SIFF in Seattle just had a local version of what sounds like this exact movie. It was even on the cover of Seattle Weekly. “Senior Prom” has already been done and done really well by a high school senior.
I agree with Jeff. Senior Prom at SIFF this year was amazing. I guess we’ll see if Disney can compete. Doubtful.
i was supposed to audition for this movie, when the guy called my mom thought it was a scam :/
I heard Wech’s script totally sucked. So boring.
Does anyone know if the Film was ever in an LA Film Fest where Disney people might have seen it? This highschool Film Maker was all over the news in Seattle.
These people aren’t really new if EVERYONE has heard of or seen them before
Perfect timing, something fresh for a change.