The Celebrity Truth

Zac Efron’s new flick Charlie St. Cloud has been bumped up for release, which isn’t all that exciting – except that now, his movie now opens on the date originally slated for the release of his girlfriend Vanessa Hudgens’ latest effort, Beastly.

“It was disappointing,” Efron told MTV News of the release date shuffle – particularly as Efron “actually had to break the news to her.” Ouch.

The release of Hudgen’s flick has now been pushed back to March 2011.

“It was hard. I actually had to break the news to her. I was like, ‘I think we are moving on to your date.’… She took it really well, but it’s hard when that kind of stuff happens,” Efron told MTV News.

“We don’t, as actors, have any control over it, so we’ll see. I mean, hopefully it will work out for the best. Beastly is a great movie and when it does come out, people are absolutely going to love it.”

His girlfriend and High School Musical co-star was equally as diplomatic about the date shuffle.

“I just didn’t feel right about us having movies coming out on the same day,” Hudgens said, adding, “We’re actually going to be doing some re-shoots and changing it up a bit, so hopefully we’ll make it that much better.”

Photo: Rolling Stone.

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