Disney starlet Raini Rodriguez is hitting the big screen again! The “Austin & Ally” actress’ new movie Girl In Progress is about single mom Grace (Eva Mendes). She is too busy juggling work, bills, and the very married Dr. Harford (Matthew Modine), to give her daughter, Ansiedad (Cierra Ramirez) the attention she desperately needs. When Ansiedad’s English teacher, Ms. Armstrong (Patricia Arquette), introduces her students to classic coming-of-age stories, Ansiedad is inspired to skip adolescence and jump-start her life without mom. While Grace becomes preoccupied with the increasing affections of her co-worker (Eugenio Derbez), Ansiedad enlists the help of her loyal friend, Tavita (Rodriguez), to plot her shortcut to “adulthood”. But as her misguided plan unravels, Ansiedad and Grace must learn that sometimes growing-up means acting your age.
Check out the featurette above where Raini dishes on her character Tavita & the movie. Girl In Progress drops in theaters today!

Ashley Argota flew all the way across the country to spend the weekend with friends, family and do charity work! The Nickelodeon actress surprised her best friend Raini Rodriguez at an event her brother, Rico Rodriguez, was being honored. Raini updated her official Tumblr with how she felt about the surprise:

My best friend, Ashley flew in from New York to come and surprise me at the Power of Youth event on Saturday. And boy did she. I’m shocked I didn’t figure it out, I’m usually good at stuff like that, but I was so busy these past couple of weeks, that I never noticed my mom texting my best friend. Im also bad at reacting to surprises, but I’m sure the look of confusion and excitement was a sight to see. I didn’t realize how badly I missed her until she was standing there and then it hit me. We had the best time reconnecting and catching up with our lives. Special thanks goes out to her mom and my mom, for texting each other and being great secret keepers, but now I will always be suspicious of them!

After Power of Youth, Ashley also hit up the Ronald McDonald Charity event and the Puss in Boots movie premiere! What a busy weekend!

Check out a photo of Ashley at the premiere below. (Photo credit)
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Another new Disney Channel show?! You bet! Check out the preview above for a brand new comedy with some already familiar faces! Look closely and you’ll see that one of the main characters is none other than Raini Rodriguez! “Austin & Ally” is coming soon!

Madison Pettis turned 13.. in style! Madison Pettis, star of Disney Channel’s “Cory in the House”, The Game Plan and the new Canadian (soon to be US) series “Life with Boys” (from the creators of “Hannah Montana”) celebrated her 13th Birthday last night at Eden in Hollywood. Click HERE to see photos from the star-studded birthday bash! We were at the bash and got some of Madison’s friends to give the new teenager some advice. Check out the video above to see who makes a guest appearance!

Rico and Raini Rodriguez attended this year’s Strawberry Festival of Garden Grove where they were the Grand Marshals of the parade! Check out the video above to glimpse the brother and sister duo. Also making a cameo in the video is Fivel Stewart, BooBoo Stewart‘s sister!

Disney’s highly anticipated new movie PROM is coming to theaters on April 29th. But you can see it before it comes out! Disney is giving away the ultimate invite to PROM! Upload a video showing the most creative way to ask someone to prom and you can get the chance to attend the LA premiere of PROM!

One grand prize winner and three friends will get a trip to Hollywood to attend the premiere of PROM. They will also get a $500 Macy’s gift card to get Red Carpet Ready, and a chance to meet one of the stars of the movie¸ Nicholas Braun or Aimee Teegarden!
Fifteen runners up will get $100 Macy’s gift card and the PROM Soundtrack.
Fifteen second prize winner will get the soundtrack to the movie!

Find out more about the contest: http://pitch.pe/128756

Enter to win: http://promcontest.disney.go.com/

GOOD LUCK!

Meet Lloyd Taylor, played by Nicholas Braun, from the new Disney movie “Prom“! Check out the trailer above to see Braun and Raini Rodriguez discuss pick-up lines to ask a girl to Prom.

Australian pop star Cody Simpson is one lucky guy! Not only did Pastry shoes sponsor his party, which shut down Santa Monica Pier, but Cody also had Nick Cannon DJ his party!

We were lucky enough to head inside the party where guest included Bella Thorne and Kenton Duty from Shake It Up, Debby Ryan from The Suite Life on Deck,

Rico Rodriguez from Modern Family, Raini Rodriguez from Prom, Madison Pettis, Alfredo Flores, Diggy Simmons and many more!

Cody’s friend Jessica Jarrell also sang the birthday boy “Happy Birthday”!

Check out the video above to see exclusive snippets from inside the party!