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For those of you under 20 years of age, there used to be these crazy things called VHS and Vinyl. VHS were these tapes that played movies and all sorts of video, in machines hooked up to your TV. Vinyl were these big discs which contained music that you played on something called a record machine. Sadly as Emily told Jordan, her newest projects, Hannah Montana The Movie will not be available on VHS and her newest album will not be available on Vinyl. Ah well.

It’s not just for boys or the Japanese anymore.  Sony Computer Entertainment America has announced a new Limited Edition Hannah Montana PSP Entertainment Pack.  Similar to the Madden and Daxter packs that came before it, the Hannah Montana kit will include: a copy of Disney Interactive’s Hannah Montana: Rock Out The Show video game, three episodes of the tv show on UMD, a 2GB Memory Stick Pro DUO and, of course, a lilac-coloured PSP-3000.

Gamers can customize their PSP with fashionable vinyl stickers also included.    “The new Limited
Edition Hannah Montana PSP Entertainment Pack plays a central role in SCEA’s larger ‘Girlz Play Too’ initiative and we’re committed to bringing a steady stream of female-friendly content to consumers,” says John Koller, the company’s Director of Hardware Marketing.  “While SCEA has a broad range of PSP owners from under 12 to over 45 years old, we saw a tremendous opportunity for us to connect with the  female and ‘tween’ demographic and create a PSP system that girls will love.” Sony has certainly been throwing a lot of support at the PSP lately.  Some gamers can look forward to portable entries from Ubisoft’s Petz and LittleBigPlanet, while others await the new Assassin’s Creed and Soulcalibur games.

The Hannah Montana Pack has an MSRP of $199.99 and is out now.

Miley Cyrus was granted a temporary restraining order Thursday from Mark McLeod, reports Perez Hilton. McLeod has been arrested several times for stalking the Disney star.

According to the order, McLeod “shall not harass, threaten, molest, contact or attempt to contact, or in any other manner interfere with Cyrus, any member of her family, her friends, and fellow employees.”

McLeod has claimed to be receiving secret messages from Cyrus, 16, through her character Hannah Montana.

Miley Cyrus has landed herself a deal with Wal-Mart for a clothing line produced with designer Max Azria (Hervé Léger, BCBG and Max Azria).

The “Miley Cyrus & Max Azria” label is set to include everything from pants to tops to graphic tees, shoes and accessories — all under $20 — according to E! Online.

Wal-Mart is also sponsoring Cyrus’ Live in Concert tour that kicks off in Portland Sept. 14, finishing in Miami after 45 stops.

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Miley Cyrus’ Hannah Montana: The Movie  jumped out to a big lead at the box office and never looked back on this competitive holiday weekend. The Disney Channel adaptation took first place with a hefty, better-than-anticipated $34 million gross, according to early estimates from Media By Numbers.

According to ew.com, that total exceeds the $31.1 mil that Hannah Montana & Miley Cyrus: Best of Both Worlds Concert opened with a year ago (although this film played in many more theaters), and it amounts to one of the top April debuts ever. Among live-action G-rated fare, this premiere ranks second all time, behind the $42 mil that High School Musical 3: Senior Year banked on its first weekend about six months ago.

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Season 7 “American Idol” runner-up David Archuleta is set to appear Disney’s “Hannah Montana.”

The singer has already filmed his guest appearance and admits on his blog that he was nervous to appear on the hit show. “It was another thing I was really nervous about and wasn’t really sure about at first,” Archuleta said of the experience of filming the show.

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Billy Ray Cyrus, father of “Hannah Montana” star Miley Cyrus, said in an interview with “Access Hollywood” that Malia Obama, 10, and Sasha Obama, 7, have been invited to appear on an episode of the Disney Channel show.

“You know the ‘Hannah Montana’ film comes out in April. Maybe something might happen around then.” Cyrus said to Access hollywood, according to MTV News.

“I think that would be really cool, and if anything, [we would] have them visit the set,” said Miley Cyrus to ‘Access Hollywood’ when asked about the possible appearance of the first daughters on ‘Hannah montana.’

“They are kind of like me before I started my own career,” Cyrus adds. “[They] are kind of put in it because their dad … so I would want it to be normal, and they could come hang out on the set with normal girls. I think that would be fun for them.”

“Hannah Montana: The Movie” is set to release on April 10, 2009 in the U.S. In the film, Miley Stewart Miley Cyrus) and her father, played by her real-life dad Billy Ray Cyrus, take a trip to their homeland of Crowley Corners, Tennessee.

This is the sound of a million 15-year-old hearts breaking: Miley Cyrus may be ready to leave her Hannah Montana role in the dust.

“We’re thinking this is our last season,” Cyrus told Yahoo news.

Production on the new season begins in early August, with an option to continue the show. However, Cyrus may feel the role is exhausted – and exhausting.

“I just think we did a lot of episodes,” she said. “We basically did two seasons in one last year. Usually people would do one season that would be, like, 16 episodes, and we did almost 30 episodes! It seems like it’s been on, like, longer.”

Cyrus has been desperately trying to shake her good girl image and develop an older audience.

Disney Star Miley Cyrus sometimes longs to live a “normal life” shopping with girlfriends and going to high school, but the singer also realizes the lifestyle might not be for her, reports People magazine.

“Sometimes I’m like, ‘Oh, I want to go to the mall,’” Cyrus told Robin Roberts in an interview airing Tuesday on ‘Good Morning America’. “I’m thinking, ‘I’m totally gonna be fine and be able to shop around.’ It’s, like, okay, not a normal teenager, you know.”

Despite the success, the star of the hit TV show “Hannah Montana” says she feels like a normal teen when she’s away from the public eye.

”Then, when I go out and about, I’m like, ‘Okay, like I’m not in this normal life,’” Cyrus said. “It’s not a normal world.”

However the 15-year-old singer prefers her not-so-normal world.

“I don’t know if I could go back to, like, a normal life. I think it would be too hard,” she said.

Buddy Sheffield wants a piece of the money pie from the hit TV show “Hannah Montana.”

Sheffield is claiming that the Disney Channel stole his idea for a sitcom about a normal kid who moonlights as a pop star, and turned the show into the successful series “Hannah Montana,” starring teen star Miley Cyrus.

The writer sued ABC Cable Networks Group back in August for breach of implied contract, breach of confidentiality and other unfair competition and unjust enrichment while the network has failed to provide documents detailing the proceeds from all the aspects of the Hannah Montana marketing brand.

If both sides fail to settle their differences in meditation, a trial has been set for late August.