Zac Efron has pulled out of the remake of the 1984 film Footloose, sources say. According to a senior member of the production team, Efron left by using the recent rewriting of the screenplay as a loophole to get out of his contract; other sources have said the actor was advised to hold off roles in other musical films until he has established his versatility in other genres.

Last month, the first word on details about the upcoming sequel to the hit musical film Hairspray came out, and to say the least, it’s totally unexpected—okay, we’ll say it, weird.  After the serious undertones that the original had hidden behind all the singing and the dancing, all we get is zits and weight loss?  Well, that, and the story moving from the 1950s to the 1960s.

For the upcoming sequel to the successful musical flick Hairspray, expect everybody to let go of the ‘50s and throw themselves head-on into the ‘60s.  But don’t expect much to change: Marc Shaiman and Scott Whitman, who partnered to write the songs for the original Broadway musical and, later, the film, will still be on board. John Waters, who worked on the original (non-musical) 1988 film, is also on board. In fact, according to Shaiman, “[he] wrote a treatment that is so f—ng hysterical!”

Surely you’ve seen it on the Internet already: Prop 8: The Musical features a surprisingly stellar cast (Jack Black, John C. Reilly and