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MarVista Entertainment Group is reuniting with Disney Channel’s Debby Ryan, who will serve as an executive producer on “Jessica Darling’s It List,” TheWrap has exclusively learned. “It List” stars actress/model Chloe East as Jessica Darling, a smart, witty, opinionated girl heading into the 7th grade. But before she does, her popular sister Bethany (Blair Fowler) gives her the “It List,” a cheat sheet on how to navigate middle school. Ryan previously starred in two movies for MarVista that aired on the Disney Channel: “Radio Rebel” and “16 Wishes.” Other executive producers on the film are Emmy Award-winner Julie Hanan Carruthers (“All My.

Disney Channel is staying in business with teen phenom Zendaya, tapping the Shake It Up! star to headline a comedy-adventure movie titled Zapped, TVLine has learned exclusively.

Last month, Disney Channel confirmed that Shake It Up! will sign off this fall after 78 episodes. At the time, the network announced plans to collaborate with the actress-singer-author on an original TV pic.

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Zapped, based on the book Boys Are Dogs, centers on 16 year-old Zoey Stevens (Zendaya), a skilled dancer and straight-a student who is having a hard time adjusting to a new high school,...

Debby looked stunning at the Kate Young for Target launch in New York City on April 9. HollywoodLife.com spoke Exclusively with her glam squad about the inspiration on her beauty and learned the step-by-step so you can get the exact look at home!

Debby Ryan looked lovely on the carpet for the Kate Young for Target launch on April 9. Makeup artist Laura Dee Shelley and hairstylist Brian Magallones spoke to HollywoodLife.com Exclusively about their vision in creating Debby’s amazing beauty look!

Debby Ryan At Target Party — Her Sun-Kissed Makeup

“As soon as I saw Debby’s dress, I was inspired by artist Monet‘s lily pad paintings. I wanted her to look youthful and fresh,” Laura Dee tells HollywoodLife.com.

“I wanted to capture the watercolor effect. I knew with her gorgeous eyes I wanted to make them a key look. I used a blue/green liquid liner...

Sometimes you have to defer to the experts. So when Debby Ryan — the 19-year-old star of Disney Channel’s Jessie (Fridays at 8:30/7:30c) — stopped by TVLine’s Times Square offices, I made sure to have my twin sons on hand to do the heavy lifting. Jared and Jacob wrote their own questions; I only sprinkled some in A) to make sure we covered all the bases, and B) because they don’t teach Follow-Up Questions until fifth grade.

Jared | Can you give us some information from the rest of Season 2 of Jessie?

Yes! Well, you know that Jessie and Tony are dating,...

Lucas Till (X-Men: First Class), Jason Momoa ("Game of Thrones") and Merritt Patterson (Disney Channel's "Radio Rebel") will star in the werewolf-thriller Wolves. The story follows an 18-year old orphan who tracks down his ancestry to a small, isolated town. Momoa plays the town bad guy. David Hayter, who wrote X-Men and X2, will make his feature film directing debut from his own script. 

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Conan the Barbarian and Game of Thrones star Jason Momoa and Merritt Patterson (The Hole) are joining Lucas Till in werewolf thriller Wolves.

This time Momoa is on a bit of a villainous streak as he’s going to be the baddie in the directorial debut of X-Men writer David Hayte.

More precisely, Momoa will be the badass werewolf patriarch of the town.

Hayter is helming from his own script the film set to shoot in Toronto this fall; his goal is to start an original franchise.

Till plays a werewolf named Caleb who, accused of murdering his parents, goes on the run and winds up in a strange town called Lupine Ridge to discover that he’s not the only supernatural thing out in the world, while Patterson, who starred in the Disney Channel original movie Radio Rebel, will play a character named Angelina Timmins.

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Disney Channel starlet Debby Ryan is once again venturing beyond the walls of Jessie-the-nanny’s tony apartment building, to travel to The Glades.

TVLine has learned exclusively that the 19-year-old actress/recording artist will guest-star in the July 22 episode of the A&E series, playing an employee at a luxury medical spa where one of the co-owners turns up dead.

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This is not the first time that Ryan, whose TV credits also include The Suite Life on Deck and several Disney Channel flicks (such as Radio Rebel), has gotten dramatic.

You can’t really expect much from Disney made-for-tv movies, especially those following in the tradition of the well-cast, poorly written but beloved Disney channel comedies that an entire generation of kids grew up on at the height of High School Musical popularity. That style of show has stayed alive on the Disney Channel ever since thanks in large part to it functioning as a pop star factory that has given the world such talents as Hilary Duff, Selena Gomez, and Miley Cyrus. If Radio Rebel has its way, Debby Ryan (who is the spitting image of Gomez) is the next in line as it cashes in on a story a bit too close to that of Hannah Montana for comfort with a dose of youth activism to give some spice (aka do what it can to differentiate itself).

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Debby Ryan is going from Jessie to Radio Rebel.

In the upcoming Disney Channel film, Ryan stars as Tara Adams, an introverted teen who's painfully shy in school and a popular (yet anonymous) podcast host at night. As her show's reputation grows, it becomes increasingly difficult for Tara to lead two lives as the students are determined to find the host's identity.

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