The Hannah Montana movie is selling out and tickets are predictably becoming a hot commodity. The film is only in theaters for one week starting February 1 so it looks like they wanted to create a scarcity of tickets to add to the hype surrounding the Disney star:

Hundreds of showtimes are already sold out on Fandango and theater owners are constantly adding new ones, says Harry Medved, spokesman for Fandango, the nation’s largest movie ticketing service. The movie opens nationwide Feb. 1 and runs for one week only. Tickets went on sale Dec. 1 and can be purchased online or at the box office.

“We have 21 girls in our Girl Scout troop and I wanted to be able to offer it to all of them, thinking it would be great if we could go together,” said Patti Feurman, mother of two in Ridgefield, Conn. “It was impossible to get that many tickets for a single show. We all had to break up to try to find tickets and we are all at different showtimes.”

“Hannah Montana & Miley Cyrus: Best of Both Worlds Concert” captures singing sensation Miley Cyrus during her 54-date tour. In the movie, Miley, 15, star of Disney Channel’s “Hannah Montana” series, performs as both a solo artist and as her television character, Hannah Montana. The movie is in Disney Digital 3D.

The concert movie was the No. 1 seller on MovieTickets.com its first week on sale, selling more on that Friday, Saturday and Sunday, than any other movies for the entire week, said Joel Cohen, MovieTickets.com’s executive vice president and general manager. He says the ticketing service has sold thousands of tickets each day since.

The film was 30 percent of the ticket sales on Fandango as of Thursday, right behind “Cloverfield,” which comes out Friday, and has consistently been a top-selling ticket on the site, says Medved. A Los Angeles movie theater had a 12:01 a.m. Feb. 1 showtime, with other theaters starting around 8 a.m. that day. The movie is playing in more than 600 theaters.

“It’s the best-selling concert movie in Fandango’s seven-year history,” said Rick Butler, chief operating officer of Fandango.

[From The Huffington Post]

This film was supposed to be a consolation prize for all the kids who didn’t get to go to the sold out concerts, but it’s only going to disappoint if it’s just out for a week. The Huffington Post notes that Disney refused to comment on why they decided to only put the film out for a week and that they also wouldn’t say if the film’s release will be extended.

They quote a communication professor as saying that it’s more like a television movie and that it’s common for smaller films to have a run of just one week. Tickets for the Hannah Montana Miley Cyrus concerts went for thousands of dollars on the black market so Disney must realize that the film is going to quickly sell out too.

There was a minor scandal with the teen star when it emerged that she was using a body double for a short time in her live concerts as she ended a song and started another to help ease her transition from Hannah Montana to Miley Cyrus. Miley’s people issued a statement confirming that a body double is used on stage for just one to two minutes, but stating that she performs live for the rest of the show.

Miley Cyrus is shown at the premiere of the “Hannah Montana and Miley Cyrus - Best of Both Worlds Concert” movie on 1/17/08, thanks to PRPhotos. The Jonas Brothers and her dad, Billy Ray Cyrus, are also shown. Is it just me or does she look kind of smug here? Cute dress though.

Update: Miley Cyrus has spoken out about Britney’s problems. It seems like some interviewer asked her specifically about Britney as US Weekly quotes her as telling Extra “I think it’s so crazy and I think that she [Britney] needs help. If I didn’t have [my family], I’d probably be in the same position. You just got to know who your true friends are, and I think for me, is my mom. If you have sisters, I mean any girls that are in your family, that can understand and relate to you, I think is the best.”

Miley has also apparently dyed her hair black, which I didn’t notice. She said “”I was just trying to get more into my rock and roll vibe.”