Enjoy some video clips such as Mitchel Musso and Tiffany Thornton’s music video “Let it Go” and Emily Osment’s music video for “Hero in Me”.

Dadnapped / Hatching Pete Video Clips

Music Video: Mitchel Musso and Tiffany Thornton Let It Go

More video clips below.

Music Video: Emily Osment Hero In Me

Merc Hotel

Bathroom

Rescued

Behind the Scenes: Graphic Novel 2

Trailer

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I received my copy the other day and we watched both movies again, as well as all of the great bonus features. I really hope Disney continues to release DCOM’s in a double feature like this. It just makes sense and it’s such a great addition to any Disney fan’s DVD collection!

Dadnapped

In Dadnapped, fourteen year-old Melissa (Emily Osment) is struggling with a unique kind of sibling rivalry. To get her father Neil’s (George Newburn) attention, she has to compete with teenage spy Tripp Zoome, the main character in her father’s best selling novels. Her dad spends so much time on his imaginary son’s exciting missions that even Melissa’s special daughter-dad vacation gets interrupted by a promotional event for Neil’s newest book. But when Neil is abducted by overzealous fanboys and falls into the clutches of a pair of sinister brothers, the fictional Tripp can’t save him and Melissa will have to try to channel her "inner Zoome" to rescue her dad. 

Hatching Pete

A bashful high school student finds fames as a high-flying poultry impersonator in Hatching Pete. Pete’s (Jason Dolley) best friend Poole (Mitchel Musso) wants to keep up his family’s longstanding tradition of playing their high school mascot, the Chicken, but Poole is allergic to the costume. Pete agrees to stand in for his pal, but only on the condition that his identity remains a secret. The anonymity of the Chicken suit gives Pete the freedom he’s always dreamed of and a whole new personality emerges. His unexpectedly outrageous antics make the Chicken an instant celebrity— except no one knows it’s Pete. As Poole reaps the benefits of his pal’s talent, Pete must decide if it’s time to reveal that he’s the man behind the beak.

Hatching Pete Bonus Features
• Unmasking The Mascot – A Hatching Pete bonus feature so viewers can find out what it’s really like inside the suit!

Dadnapped Bonus Features  
• Exclusive Extended Ending  
• Trip Zoome: Off The Rails: An Animated Graphic Novel

Watch Leo’s Little Big Show with the stars of Hatching Pete and Dadnapped below.

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On May 12th, you can purchase a Hatching Pete & Dadnapped double feature DVD. The cover is pictured to the left.

For those of you that did see it, I would love to know what you thought about it! Vote in the poll below and then share your thoughts in the comment section.

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Here is the encore schedule for the rest of the weekend:

SATURDAY, APRIL 25 (8:00 p.m., ET/PT)
• Encore presentation of “Hatching Pete” on Disney Channel, with a behind-the-scenes set tour from the upcoming Disney Channel series “JONAS,” hosted by its stars, Kevin, Joe and Nick Jonas, Chelsea Staub and Nicole Anderson.

SUNDAY, APRIL 26 (9:00 p.m., ET/PT)
• Encore presentation of “Hatching Pete” on Disney Channel, with an exclusive sneak peek of the upcoming DisneyPixar feature film, “Up.” The animated comedy adventure follows 78-year-old Carl Fredricksen as he fulfills his dream of a great adventure when he ties thousands of balloons to his house and flies away to the wilds of South America, only to discover that he has brought with him his biggest nightmare, a 9-year-old Wilderness Explorer stowaway.

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Disney Channel’s “Night of Stars”

We saw new music video, new episodes of “Hannah Montana” and “Wizards of Waverly Place” and of course the premiere of the DCOM “Dadnapped”.

“Dadnapped” went head-to-head with Nickelodeon’s original movie “Spectacular”.

Who ended up on top of the ratings chart? Dadnapped! In fact, it out performed Spectacular by double-digit percent margins. Sweet!

Check out all of the ratings for the individual shows below.

• At 7 o’clock an all-new “Wizards of Waverly Place” dominated an original “True Jackson, VP” on Nickelodeon, overshadowing delivery by 45% in Total Viewers (4.5 million vs. 3.1 million), by 82% in Kids 6-11 (2.0 million vs. 1.1 million) and by 75% in Tweens 9-14 (1.7 million vs. 972,000).
• “Wizards of Waverly Place” delivered Disney Channel’s largest audience in the time period in the net’s history in Total Viewers (4.5 million), Kids 6-11 (2.0 million) and Tweens 9-14 (1.7 million-tied 1/1/07).
• At 7:30 p.m., the all-new “Hannah Montana,” guest starring Rob Reiner, surpassed its last original episode by 19% in Total Viewers (4.4 million vs. 3.7 million), by 27% in Kids 6-11 (1.9 million vs. 1.5 million) and by 21% in Tweens 9-14 (1.7 million vs. 1.4 million).
• With “Hannah Montana,” Disney Channel registered the largest Total Viewer audience ever in the time period and recorded second-best levels in Kids 6-11 and Tweens 9-14, behind only Monday, 10/9/06.
• In its debut, Disney Channel’s 74th Disney Channel Original Movie, “Dadnapped” (8:00 – 9:40 p.m.), was particularly dominant against key time period competition, defeating the highly-publicized debut of original movie knock-off “Spectacular!” on Nickelodeon/Nick-at-Nite by a significant 39% in Total Viewers (4.6 million vs. 3.3 million), by 62% in Kids 6-11 (2.1 million vs. 1.3 million) and by 38% in Tweens 9-14 (1.8 million vs. 1.3 million).

Source: Disney Channel press release

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• New Jonas Brothers’ music video “BB Good”.
• New Miley Cyrus music video “The Climb” and “HoeDown ThrowDown,", from “Hannah Montana: The Movie”
• The premiere of the Disney Channel Original Movie “Dadnapped”. Watch the first four minutes here.
• New episode of “As the Bell Rings”.
• New episode of “Hannah Montana”.
• New episode of “Wizards of Waverly Place”.

It all kicks off from 7:00-9:40 p.m., ET/PT. Are you going to watch!?

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I had the chance to chat with Jason Earles, who plays Merv in “Dadnapped”, and he told me a little bit about the movie. Here’s an excerpt of our interview:

Disney Society: So, ‘Dadnapped’ is coming out on February 16^th. I know that you play Merv. What can you tell me about that character?

Jason: Merv is the hotel manager of the hotel that Emily, who plays Melissa, and her dad stay at. Her dad’s a writer of these really popular, sort of spy books and there’s a convention going on there, so they swing by and he’s doing a little event at the convention. Her dad gets kidnapped, Dadnapped, and I help Melissa try to track down her father. He’s [Merv] a really big, sort of silly character. He’s probably the biggest, broadest, sort of silly character in the show. He’s got this rat pack sort of a vibe about him with the big pompadour hair, the white jacket. He definitely stands out.

The thing that’s really cool is he is completely different from Jackson. I think that all of the Disney fans that watch the movie will be excited to see all of these characters from the different shows play parts that are totally different. David Henrie is different than he is in Wizards. Moises and Emily are both from my show and they both play very different roles. And even Phil Lewis who is like the butler from Suite Life – Mr. Moseby – he plays a bad guy. So, it’s a lot of familiar faces, but you see them in cool, different ways.

Watch the first four minutes of Dadnapped below.

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In Part 2, we talked about “Hannah Montana: The Movie”, “Space Buddies”, “Dadnapped”, “Aaron Stone” and more! Whew!

Jason was so gracious to answer all of my questions and I wanted to give him a big “Thank You!!”.

Enjoy!

Disney Society: What was it like filming “Hannah Montana: The Movie” in Tennessee?

Jason: It was awesome! Probably the coolest part of it was, we went from taping our show, (that we shot 60 episodes on our sound stage from, it was always in that one place never out in the world), to this beautiful setting in Tennessee. So, all of these characters that we got to know intimately, you suddenly get to see where they came from, out in the world, driving cars, out on the ranch and doing big giant concerts. It was just cool to see the scale of it all change from our little TV show to a big giant movie.

Disney Society: What can you tell us about the movie and Jackson’s role in it? Do you go to TN with Miley?

Jason: My role in the movie is sort of like the show where I sort of pop in and provide a little comic relief. The premise is Jackson is going off to TN to go to college and then he sort of gets sucked into Miley’s troubles in TN a little bit.

The overall story for the movie is that Miley sort of loses her way a little bit and doesn’t really understand the distinction between Miley and Hannah Montana anymore. So, we take her back to TN to sort of make her remember where she came from. It’s kind of like a finding yourself again story. I’d say that’s what 90 percent of the movie is about and it’s a really beautifully shot, beautiful music, sweet moments, funny moments….it’s the total package for a good family movie.

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Disney Society: Well, I am definitely excited about it!

Jason: Have you seen any previews from the movie?

Disney Society: Oh yes!

Jason: The thing that’s always shocking to me is that it looks like a big movie. We do a really good job on our sound stage, but it’s just a whole different scale then what we can do on the show.

Disney Society: Were there any funny incidents on the movie set?

Jason: Jackson ends up going to TN and working at a petting zoo. So, at the petting zoo, I am teaching these kids about this giant ostrich. I told the wardrobe guy, when I was doing my very first fitting before we started shooting the movie, that I thought this was all really funny, but that I hate birds. I just really hate them and I have this scene with this giant 6 foot, pre-historic, angry bird and I just don’t know what’s going to happen with that. And I said that the only thing that I don’t want to happen is I just don’t want it to bite me in the face.

The very first take with the ostrich, it bit me in the face. It was the scariest thing ever and my face welted up and they had to cover it with a bunch of makeup. But I had to shoot with this ostrich the entire day and from the very first take I was just terrified. The animal handler gave me the little leash that was around his neck and said, “Here’s the leash. Don’t pull on it.He doesn’t like it when you pull on it”, and I’m like, well what’s the point in giving it to me? You’re basically saying I have no control over what this ostrich does and he’s like, “Yeah, that’s pretty much what I’m telling you”. So, that was definitely an adventure and maybe one of my least favorite days to shoot, but then it ended up being a funny story. There’s some silly ostrich stuff in it, that works out pretty good.

Disney Society: So, ‘Dadnapped’ is coming out on February 16^th. I know that you play Merv. What can you tell me about that character?

Jason: Merv is the hotel manager of the hotel that Emily, who plays Melissa, and her dad stay at. Her dad’s a writer of these really popular, sort of spy books and there’s a convention going on there, so they swing by and he’s doing a little event at the convention. Her dad gets kidnapped, Dadnapped, and I help Melissa try to track down her father. He’s [Merv] a really big, sort of silly character. He’s probably the biggest, broadest, sort of silly character in the show. He’s got this rat pack sort of a vibe about him with the big pompadour hair, the white jacket. He definitely stands out.

The thing that’s really cool is he is completely different from Jackson. I think that all of the Disney fans that watch the movie will be excited to see all of these characters from the different shows play parts that are totally different. David Henrie is different than he is in Wizards. Moises and Emily are both from my show and they both play very different roles. And even Phil Lewis who is like the butler from Suite Life – Mr. Moseby – he plays a bad guy. So, it’s a lot of familiar faces, but you see them in cool, different ways.

Disney Society: Do you have any plans for the “Dadnapped” debut?

Jason: I think that we’re going to try to get together with the different Disney people that were in it and watch the premiere together. Like Emily and Phil Lewis….we’ll see if we can get David to come out and then the guy who plays the dad, his name is George Newburn. He was in Father of the Bride and he’s a really funny guy. I think we might end up getting together with him too, with his family. We’ll all just get together, watch it and see how it turned out.

Disney Society: I saw Space Buddies and I know you do a voice of one of the dogs, Spudnick. Have you ever done a voice over movie like that before?

Jason: No, not like that. I’ve done some little animated pilots for the Disney Channel and a couple of cartoons, but that was the first time that I had done it like a full movie, with live action stuff…although it was a little different since I was playing a dog.

It was really cool. You would be amazed at how fast you can record those things. I think I went in for maybe 3 sessions, less than 8 hours, including all the revisions, to do the whole movie. And what’s crazy about the voice over stuff too, is that I never met the guy who played the Russian cosmonaut. I was never in the same room as him or any of the other voice over actors. I was never even in the same room as the director. He was always in Canada, calling in on the phone listening to the session while we were recording. So, it’s so disjointed but they do a really good job at putting it all together and you would never know how little contact we had with each other when we’re shooting it.

Disney Society: So, Disney is launching a new network, Disney XD. I saw that you’ll be playing Hunter in Aaron Stone. What can you tell me about that show?

Jason: I am really excited about Aaron Stone. Before I went up there to shoot my episode, they sent me the first 3 episodes and it is so good. It’s totally a boy, action show. They’ve got martial arts fighting. They’ve got really cool computer graphics for these video games that they play. The characters are all really cool. For the episode that I did, I played Hunter who is like a cyborg, terminator type, who’s the defender of the hero Charlie. So, I show up at school and I am there as his sidekick to help defend him basically. Then I get damaged in a battle and I totally go evil, terminator…trying to destroy Aaron Stone.

What’s so cool is that they have full teams of stunt guys out there. The fight choreography is amazing and my stunt double was really good. But they taught me all of the fight choreography and I was doing like me against three soldiers, martial arts fighters with no experience. But they did a good job at teaching me all of the stuff and I think they are going to actually use a lot of my fighting. I was so excited to shoot that episode.

I am really optimistic that this show is going to be the boy answer to Hannah Montana. I think this show is going to be huge for them.

Disney Society: I think you’re right! I know that Disney XD’s main target audience is tween boys. Why do you think it’s important to have a channel aimed towards that age group?

Jason: I just don’t think there’s much out there for them right now. I think out of all the other shows on Disney….no offense to the other shows…our show [Hannah Montana] is the closest to something that tween boy would watch. The boys that watch our show, I think like it, but to say that their cool, they’ll say that they watch it because my sister watches it. But still, for whatever reason, there is a little bit of a stigma about some of the Disney shows when it comes to boys.

Disney XD really seems like a home for them where it’s all entertainment that is geared towards them. It’s going to be the thing that they like. Guys gravitate towards video games, action..so to have an outlet for them that’s not really offensive, bloody or super violent…but you still get the action. I think it’s going to be a network that parents will feel comfortable with their boys watching it.

Disney Society: You sure have a lot going on right now! Do you have any other projects coming up in the future?

Jason: I think that about covers it. You really did your research. But, I am excited about all of those things, and I am really proud of being a part of all of them. I have a bunch of nieces and nephews from my older brothers and I am so thrilled that I’ve been able to be a part of so many things that they can actually watch, as opposed to things that I would want them to avoid.

I hope that people will enjoy everything.

Disney Society: Oh, I think they will! The last question I have for you today is from one of your fans. She wanted to know what your long term goals are and if you see yourself acting forever?

Jason: Yeah, I really hope so. Somebody that I have always looked up to and hoped that I could have a career like would be Michael J Fox. I think that type-wise, we are sort of similar guys and we both do physical comedy. He did a really good job at bouncing back and forth between movies and TV. He also did a lot of family friendly stuff. He had just a really great career. Everybody loved watching him, it didn’t really matter what he did.

I hope that 30 years from now people will say the same thing about me and my career. If I could have a career like that, it would be fantastic.

Disney Society: Well, I sure hope you continue with acting and I can’t wait to see what else you do in the future!

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The evening is full of new episodes and new music videos. You can see brand new episodes of “Hannah Montana”, “Wizards of Waverly Place” and “As the Bell Rings”.

We will also get to see new Jonas Brothers and Miley Cyrus videos.

The night is also the debut of the DCOM “Dadnapped”. Yep, it’s a BIG night! Here’s the promo for the new “As the Bell Rings”, starring Tony Oller.

Don’t miss this great night of TV on the Disney Channel!!

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Check out Emily Osment’s new music video “The Hero in Me”. The song is from the upcoming Disney Channel Original Movie “Dadnapped”, which airs on February 16th! Are you planning on watching it? Watch the music video and tell me what you think about Emily.

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We get new music videos from the Jonas Brothers & Miley Cyrus, new episodes of Hannah Montana & Wizards of Waverly Place and of course, a brand new DCOM “Dadnapped”. One awesome night!

See below for some DOMC extras on “Dadnapped”.

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