Vanessa Hudgens will play Mimi, an HIV-positive dancer, in a new production of Rent taking center stage at the world-famous Hollywood Bowl this August.

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Zac Efron is set take over the role of Peter Parker in the next Spider Man feature, a well-placed source at Universal Pictures blabbed to Britain’s Daily Star on Sunday.

The High School Musical sweetheart will replace Tobey Maguire, 34, in the fourth blockbuster movie, due to start shooting later this year and scheduled to hit cinemas in 2012, according to the new report.

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Mariah Carey and Vanessa Hudgens have been tapped to play a crooning mother and daughter duo in a new motion picture comedy about televison talent shows.

“Mariah is eager to capitalize on her acclaimed performance in Precious with another movie,” says a Hollywood producer, who asked to remain anonymous. “There is one project where she would play one half of a mother and daughter singing duo who audition for a TV talent show.”

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Vanessa Hudgens has reportedly filed a federal lawsuit against the owners of a celebrity website that posted “unauthorized photographs” of the star.

The former High School Musical actress has filed suit against the owners of www.MoeJackson.com, TMZ.com said Wednesday. The brunette was publicly shamed when photos of her completely nude were leaked to the Internet in September 2007. Baby V’s infamous nudes aren’t explicitly mentioned in the suit. Instead, Vanessa claims that the site has refused to remove her “self-portrait photographs.”

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High School Musical catapulted Vanessa Hudgens to tween superstardom, but at 20-years-young, Disney’s Gabriella Montez could use a break from her the hit franchise. In the October issue of Allure — on newsstands Sept. 22 — the actress talks about being famous, her fans, and the nude photo scandal that shattered her clean-cut image.

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