<P> Billy Ray Cyrus shared further details about the script: "There'll be a lot of similarities (to the show), and the fact that Miley is so real, her music is real, we'll keep a lot of that realism," the 45 - year - old country artist revealed . "But I think we'll go a little further with the comedy . And it's going to be on the big screen, so we'll try to make everything look bigger ." The movie went into production on an estimated $30 million budget . </P> <P> On the April 2 episode of The Miley & Mandy Show on YouTube, Miley spoke to Ryan Seacrest on flying to Tennessee in "two weeks" and would be staying for several months . She went to say there would be many guest stars, and herself riding horses and attending school . </P> <P> Filming began in April 2008 in Los Angeles, California and Columbia, Tennessee . It entered post-production in July 2008 . The beginning of the film was shot in Los Angeles including Franklin High School and Santa Monica Beach . Several of scenes were filmed in Nashville, Tennessee, based on Miley's and her father's hometown, for the scene that Miley Stewart / Hannah Montana's travels back home, with Fairground scenes filmed near the end of the movie . </P> <P> There is a carnival scene filmed at Smiley Hollow in Ridgetop, TN where Peter Gunn's character hunts for the real Hannah in the crowd . He finds Jackson selling "Hannah wigs" and everyone around him looks like Hannah from the back so he turns them all around looking for the real one . </P>

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