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“High School Musical” star Ashley Tisdale prepares for her trip to New Zealand to shoot her latest film “They Came From Upstaris”.

Meanwhile, filming for Ashley’s forthcoming film, started production this past Sunday and will shoot until April 18th, reports The New Zealand Herald.

The 22-year-old actress is planning on joining the rest of the cast and crew later this week, shooting scenes at a restored West Auckland manor house.

Ashley will be leaving for Auckland very soon, this means there won’t be much news & pictures while she’s gone for 2 months. We will miss Ashley. But we wish her all the luck with her new movie.

Shenae Grimes is co-starring with High School Musical’s Ashley Tisdale and fellow Degrassi actress Lauren Collins in an upcoming straight-to-DVD release titled Picture This. “It’s coming out in the spring,” Grimes said. “I spoke with (Tisdale) and she already has seen it. She watched it with Zac Efron and Vanessa Hudgens from High School Musical, and she was like, ‘We made Zac laugh, it’s a good sign‘“. And I was like, “OK, good, I’m excited.”

Watch out for the DVD coming to stores this spring!

A $60 million Hollywood movie starring teen sensation Ashley Tisdale begins filming in a restored West Auckland manor house tomorrow. The film, They Came From Upstairs and described as Home Alone meets Gremlins, is about a group of kids trying to protect their holiday home from invading aliens. In a notice to neighbours, Auckland-based production company New Upstairs Productions said filming would run for 30-40 days from tomorrow to April 18, with no filming in weekends. Actress-singer Ashley Tisdale shot to fame in the High School Musical films. Director John Schultz directed 2005 film The Honeymooners. Writer Mark Burton’s credits include Madagascar and Wallace & Gromit: The Curse of the Were-Rabbit.

Yesterday, crew were putting the finishing touches to the set, a two-storey, 22-room manor that presides over 5.5ha of rolling fields. The property was valued at $3m last October. The Herald on Sunday understands film-makers spent $700,000 restoring the house, which was shifted from Remuera in 1997. Then known as Plumley Manor, it has been a backpackers and a brothel.

The owners, a couple with four children, will live in a cottage on site during filming. Cast will not stay on site.

Sexy High School Musical star Ashley Tisdale is set to provide us with New Year eye candy.

The blonde bombshell will star in They Came From Upstairs, an adventure comedy to be shot in Auckland.

Word is production will begin at the end of this month on the multi-million dollar movie being directed by John Schultz (Like Mike) from a script by Adam F Goldberg and Mark Burton (Wallace & Grommit).

According to rumours, it’s being made by 20th Century Fox.

Ashley leads a pack of B-casters that include Step Up 2’s Robert Hoffman, Carter Jenkins, Austin Butler, Ashley Boettcher and Henri and Regan Young.

The movie revolves around teenagers who must fend off aliens from their Maine holiday home.

Tisdale is best known for playing rich-girl Sharpay Evans in Disney’s High School Musical TV-movies.

She will shoot They Came From Upstairs and, when production wraps, immediately move back for a third instalment of High School Musical.

“High School Musical” star Ashley Tisdale will make her feature film debut in 20th Century Fox’s adventure comedy “They Came From Upstairs.” John Schultz is directing with Barry Josephson producing. Also cast in the movie are “Step Up 2 the Streets” star Robert Hoffman, Carter Jenkins (”Viva Laughlin”) and Austin Butler “Ned’s Declassified School Survival Guide”). Ashley Boettcher and Henri and Regan Young are also cast. The script, by Mark Burton and Adam F. Goldberg, revolves around a group of teens who team up to defend their Maine vacation home from aliens who have invaded via the upstairs. Joe Hartwick Jr. is co-producing while Marc S. Fischer is exec producing the movie, which is being co-financed by Fox and Regency. Fox is distributing. Marc Resteghini is overseeing for Fox while Kara Francis Smith shepherds for Regency. Production starts at the end of January in Auckland, New Zealand. Tisdale is best known for playing rich-girl Sharpay Evans in the “High School Musical” movies. She will first shoot “Upstairs” before moving on to the third installment of Disney’s money-making phenomenon, which is being prepped as a theatrical feature for the first time. Tisdale is repped by Gersh and manager Bill Perlman.

With the first two “High School Musical” productions proving to be big hits, a state board is putting out a $2 million incentive to make sure a third installment also is shot in Utah. Meeting in Price, the Governor’s Office of Economic Development Board approved several economic development incentives Friday, including the package for High School Musical 3 Productions Inc. If the film company selects Utah, it would receive the state’s biggest production incentive ever. An offer of $263,000 was approved for “High School Musical” and another for $500,000 was earmarked for the sequel. According to board documents, the film’s budget is $13.3 million, and 99 percent of that would be spent in Utah. The production would involve 190 crew positions at $1,875 per week; plus $58,498 for stunt performers; $15,000 for Utah casting directors; and $472,640 for about 4,000 Utah extras. The production would take place over 41 days, starting April 21.

Popularity of both “High School Musical” films has prompted people from across the country to visit East High School to see where the films were made.

To capitalize further on that fame, East High students put on several sold-out performances of the “High School Musical” play as their fall musical. The production’s popularity was expected to gross more than $25,000 for the school. The school’s popularity rose sharply following the second film’s release to the public. School leaders estimated over the summer 40 to 50 people would wander the building to see areas where the movies had been filmed.

The tween heartthrobs of “High School Musical” will dance and sing their way back to Utah to film the third installment of the blockbuster Disney franchise, it was confirmed Friday. Shooting begins April 21 and is expected to wrap June 13, according to documents filed with the Governor’s Office of Economic Development board (GOED). While the first two films premiered on the Disney Channel television network, the new movie, scheduled for release sometime in the second half of 2008, will debut in movie theaters. “[The third] ‘High School Musical’ will be officially shooting in Utah,” Lisa Roskelly, spokeswoman for Gov. John Huntsman Jr., said Friday. To help lure the production back to where it all began - at Salt Lake City’s East High School - the GOED board Friday approved a maximum $2 million incentive for the production, the largest ever given to entice a filmmaker to Utah. Disney officials and Don Schain, the Salt Lake City-based producer of the first two films, declined to comment Friday. But East High School Principal Paul Sagers said he and Salt Lake City School District officials have been meeting with Disney executives about renting the East High building for filming. Shooting is scheduled for 41 days, longer than the first two movies. “At least verbally we all committed to doing that,” he said. “They’ve basically asked to use the classrooms, the halls, the gyms . . . and the commons area [the lunch room].”

Though filmmakers are tight-lipped about the script, sources said the third movie has the singing Wildcat seniors - including the gushing Troy (Zac Efron) and Gabriella (Vanessa Hudgens) - graduating from high school. A fourth movie, called “Haunted High School Musical,” also is planned. The first two movies have been a gold mine for Disney, generating merchandising that includes dolls, videos, and a national concert tour. The films have been seen by more than 160 million people in the U.S. and dozens of foreign countries.

For the first two films, Utah provided $263,000 and $500,000 in incentives for the first two films, respectively, to get them produced here. The incentives come in the form of a 15 percent rebate on what the production spends in Utah. In documents filed with the state, Disney officials said the production company would spend an estimated $13.3 million in Utah on ‘High School Musical 3.’

“Each one has gradually become more prestigious after the success of the first one,” said Marshall Moore, director of the Utah Film Commission. “And going from a cable release to a theatrical release certainly solidifies its position as a franchise.”