Paramount’s movie adaptation of the Broadway musical is based on the 2004 big-screen teen comedy that turned into a cultural classic. The new movie is expected to open to as much as $30 million over the long Martin Luther King Jr. holiday weekend, easily enough for a first-place finish.
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00:00 "What was that?" "Oh lord, it's the Queen Bee." "Regina George." "Don't look her in the eye!"
00:04 "Mean Girls" strutted to $3.3 million in previews at the North American box office.
00:10 Paramount's movie adaptation of the Broadway musical is based on the 2004 big-screen teen
00:15 comedy that turned into a cultural classic. The new movie is expected to open to as much as $30
00:21 million over the long Martin Luther King Jr. holiday weekend. The female-fueled film arrives
00:25 on the big screen 20 years after the Lindsay Lohan-led cult classic "Mean Girls," which was
00:30 directed by Mark Waters and written by Tina Fey. The new film stars in Gary Rice, Renee Rapp, and
00:35 Chris Briney, among others. Fey and Tim Meadows also reprise their roles from the 2004 film.
00:41 Elsewhere, Amazon and MGM's "The Beekeeper," the latest action pic starring Jason Statham,
00:46 is also set to open over the holiday weekend and tipped to open in the mid-to-high teens
00:50 after earning $2.4 million in Thursday previews. And legendary pictures and Sony's Black-led
00:56 biblical satirical drama "The Book of Clarence" is tracking to open in the single digits.
01:01 At the specialty box office, Amazon and MGM expand filmmaker Cor Jefferson's "American
01:05 Fiction" into roughly 600 theaters. The critically acclaimed film stars Jeffrey Wright as a frustrated
01:11 author facing the Black artist's dilemma. For more box office moves and updates,
01:15 keep watching The Hollywood Reporter News.
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