Zac Efron and Stella Hudgens watch proudly as Vanessa Hudgens struts her stuff as Mimi Marquez in RENT at The Hollywood Bowl on Friday evening (August 6th).

Congratulations to Vanessa!! I hear she did an amazing job.

Hey guys! Yet again, more photos from the recent Ben Watts photoshoot Zac did. These photos are GREAT, Zac really looks amazing. Hopefully even more will be released soon.

Hey everyone! Scott Mendelson from The Huffington Post wrote the best article disputing the ridiculous piece that The Wrap put on their site yesterday.. which they emailed me about and thought I would post here on a Zac Efron fansite? Hello, no.. anyway, this article is about how Zac Efron IS a movie star, and Charlie St. Cloud did very well considering. Here’s a snippet, but go read the full article. Be sure to comment at their site and support Zac!

“.. Point being, Charlie St. Cloud is not High School Musical 3, Hairspray, or even 17 Again. It is a dark drama about grieving and loss, and it had absolutely nothing going for it other than Zac Efron’s name and face on the poster. Opening a well-marketed and appealing mainstream comedy like 17 Again to $23 million is impressive. Opening a poorly-marketed and not-terribly appealing drama like Charlie St. Cloud to $12.5 million all by yourself: You, Zac Efron, are a genuine movie star. Same goes for Robert Pattinson. Sure Remember Me ‘only’ made $55 million worldwide (on a budget of just $16 million), but that means that $55 million worth of tickets were sold completely on the shoulders of one Robert Pattinson (quick, raise your hands if you saw that one for Pierce Brosnan or Chris Cooper….?). And by all means, let’s compare the box office performance of Kristen Stewart’s The Runaways, an R-rated 70s rock biopic that never even got a wide release, with the box office run of New Moon.”

Read: Zac Efron, Robert Pattinson, and Miley Cyrus Are Genuine Movie Stars

Hey guys.. I just saw on Nicholas Sparks twitter page (@sparksnicholas) that Zac Efron is CONFIRMED to star in “The Lucky One”. He says that they should begin filming this fall. I think we should all buy the book, and read it now so that we are even more excited to see the film! Let’s really make this a huge movie for Zac.

Zac Efron Plans To ‘Live Vicariously’ Through Brian Bendis’ ‘Fire’ Adaptation – MTV
When it was announced earlier this year that “High School Musical” actor Zac Efron had signed on to star in the film adaptation of Brian Michael Bendis’ “Fire,” it’s fair to say that more than a few eyebrows were raised. Call us pleasantly surprised, however, when we learned that Efron is not only a big Bendis fan, but that he has a solid grasp on the character and can’t wait to start production on the film.

“Brian Bendis is writing a script right now,” Efron told MTV News of the “Fire” production status, while promoting his latest film, “Charlie St. Cloud.” “I don’t know when we are getting a draft exactly. But I know that he’s having a blast and Brian is one of my favorite writers. I’m really looking forward to that, we’ll see what happens.”

Efron went on to say that what he’s most excited about in tackling the character Ben — a college student recruited by the CIA who later discovers he’s been marked for termination by his employers — is the opportunity to step outside himself, along with his repertoire of boy-next-door roles.

“You know the character, he’s not afraid,” Efron said. “You know me in life I have a lot of rules. There is a lot of stuff I can’t do because I would never want to take those risks so to speak.”

“As much as I’m a thrill-seeker, I don’t really get into fights,” he explained. “I’m not a renegade kind of guy. And that’s what this character is.”

Efron added that he plans to take full advantage of his character’s edgy existence.

“I’m definitely going to live vicariously through this character,” he said. “And experience things I can’t do in real life.”

Hey guys! Zac was on “Lopez Tonight”, and it was such a great interview!! Here’s the videos…

Long cast in the role of teen heartthrob thanks to ‘High School Musical,’ he tackles his first commercially dramatic role. He hopes it expands his fan base beyond screaming teens.

The lights were down low in a movie theater, and up on the screen, Zac Efron was about to kiss a girl when a collection of shrill “oohs” and “aahs” interrupted the intimate moment.

With “Charlie St. Cloud,” out Friday, Efron tackles his first commercially dramatic role — a move that signals his desire to leave behind his reputation as a teen heartthrob. But considering his very vocal fans at the film’s premiere in Los Angeles last week, it may take more than just one film to make the break.

“I think that happens in a lot of movies,” Efron said, shrugging off the hooting and hollering while sitting on the patio of a Sunset Strip hotel beside director Burr Steers a few days after the premiere.

“With ‘Twilight’ too, I think. They work themselves up,” added Steers. “But you saw — with Zac, he gets, like, a Beatles reaction.”

Nowadays, the attention barely seems to faze Efron, 22, a veteran of the screaming-girl circuit. His roles in the three “High School Musical” movies and a film remake of the Broadway musical “Hairspray” ingratiated him with the tween set, who again came out for last year’s comedy “17 Again” (also directed by Steers). But Efron’s first turn in a drama — playing a young actor in the 2008 period piece “Me & Orson Welles” — didn’t resonate with audiences, perhaps at least partly because the Richard Linklater film got only a nominal theatrical release.

In “Charlie St. Cloud,” based on a novel by Ben Sherwood, Efron plays the titular character grappling with the death of his younger brother, Sam. As he struggles with his grief, Sam’s ghost appears, and the brothers head nightly to a forest to talk and play catch. But then Charlie meets Tess, played by Amanda Crew, and he’s forced to weigh his romantic feelings against his attachment to his brother.

Marc Platt, who produced the film, didn’t always envision Efron in the part. The two first met a few years ago, during the “High School Musical” days, when Platt was struck largely by Efron’s youth.

“I thought he was a real kid. Not used to the meetings — clearly sweet and lovely — but very, very youthful,” the producer recalled.

But when Efron came in to discuss “Charlie St. Cloud,” Platt saw a young man who had matured greatly.

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Zac was photographed leaving the ABC Studios in Los Angeles where he taped his appearance on Jimmy Kimmel Live on Wednesday (July 28th).

Zac recently chatted with Movieline on specifically not taking on any action flicks right now. He shared, “I have a self-awareness of what is out there: Right now, if I was looking at me from someone else’s eyes — like the eyes of the guys who are going to go watch a superhero movie — I can’t say that I’d be ‘two thumbs up’ for me to star in an action movie right now. … Why would I be? I haven’t done anything to pay those dues yet, I haven’t made any movies for those fans yet. I think you have to earn the right to hold a gun. You have to earn the right to shoot web.” [From JJJ]

^^ I love that quote, but I think action fans would accept him, because he’d do a great job and really put in the work… I’d love to see him in an action movie really soon! Fingers crossed.

Zac Efron is more than just a pretty face. In Charlie St Cloud, Zac Efron proves his dramatic mettle as a brother who loses his little brother to a drunk driver and must face life alone.

The range of emotions Zac Efron goes through as an actor in Charlie St Cloud is immense and the High School Musical and Hairspray actor welcomed the challenge with gusto.

SheKnows: There’s a real sense of a brotherly bond in Charlie St Cloud. How did you and actor Charlie Tahan find each other that you were able to pull that off?

Zac Efron: There are your typical everyday brothers. We’re a bit closer. We didn’t grow up with a father in the movie. We really rely on each other for a lot more in that camaraderie. I’m trying to raise him to be the young man that can be successful and strong. We have a stronger than normal brother relationship.

SheKnows: Charlie told us that he’s not really into sports…yet you would never know it watching the film.

Zac Efron: Baseball is the way that we connect. It’s our ritual. We talk about it and connect over it. That’s the way I instill a lot of the rules of success in him. It’s through a foundation — baseball.

SheKnows: And sailing, too, you guys really demonstrate you know what you’re doing out there…

Zac Efron: That was really fun. For such a short scene, it took a long time to film. The sailing scenes were fun and they’re great for the movie. But, when you’re out there doing the real sailing, it’s hard. Because the boats are so unstable and you’re on them for so long, we wouldn’t get seasick, we’d actually get land sick. We’d come back onto land and everything would be moving [laughs]. I remember buildings looked like they were shaking, it was so weird. But, we did become pretty good sailors by the end.

Read the full article at SheKnows.Com. I want to thank them for letting me know about it.