Mean Girls remains the queen bee at the domestic box office. The new movie musical is based on the 2018 Broadway show, which is based on the 2004 teen comedy, which is based on the 2002 nonfiction book Queen Bees and Wannabes by Rosalind Wiseman. It follows transfer student Cady Heron (Angourie Rice) whose first year in an American high school sees her drawn into a plot to take down the cruel queen bee Regina George (Renée Rapp). The screenplay by original screenwriter Tina Fey is interspersed with songs by composer Jeff Richmond and lyricist Nell Benjamin.
Per Variety, the Mean Girls release is projected to close out its second weekend in domestic theaters with a 3-day gross of $11 million. This will bring its cumulative domestic total north of $49 million. On top of that, the movie has stayed at No. 1 on the domestic chart for the second weekend in a row, beating out new releases including the sci-fi thriller I.S.S. and Ava DuVernay’s Origin.
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Mean Girls (2024)
Mean Girls is a reimagining of the 2004 classic comedy film as a musical, directed by Samantha Jayne and Arturo Perez Jr. When Cady Heron and her family move from Africa to the United States; she experiences a culture shock when she enters the public school system for the first time. While trying to fit in, she is roped into the popular but superficial and cruel clique, the Plastics.
- Release Date
- January 12, 2024
- Director
- Samantha Jayne , Arturo Perez Jr.
- Cast
- Angourie Rice , Auli’i Cravalho , Jaquel Spivey , Reneé Rapp , Jon Hamm , Ashley Park , Jenna Fischer , Tina Fey , Tim Meadows
- Writers
- Nell Benjamin , Tina Fey
- Story By
- Tina Fey
- Studio(s)
- Broadway Video , Little Stranger , Paramount Pictures , Paramount Players
- Distributor(s)
- Paramount Pictures
