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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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00:00What was that? Oh lord, it's the Queen Bee. Regina George. Don't look her in the eye!
00:05Mean Girls strutted to $3.3 million in previews at the North American box office.
00:11Paramount's movie adaptation of the Broadway musical is based on the 2004 big screen teen
00:15comedy that turned into a cultural classic. The new movie is expected to open to as much
00:20as $30 million over the long Martin Luther King Jr. holiday weekend. The female-fueled
00:25film arrives on the big screen 20 years after the Lindsay Lohan-led cult classic Mean Girls
00:29which was directed by Mark Waters and written by Tina Fey. The new film stars in Gary Rice,
00:35Renee Rapp, and Chris Briney among others. Fey and Tim Meadows also reprised their roles from the
00:402004 film. Elsewhere, Amazon and MGM's The Beekeeper, the latest action pick starring Jason Statham,
00:46is also set to open over the holiday weekend and tipped to open in the mid to high teens
00:50after earning $2.4 million in Thursday previews. And Legendary Pictures and Sony's black-led
00:56biblical satirical drama, The Book of Clarence is tracking to open in the single digits.
01:01At the specialty box office, Amazon and MGM expand filmmaker Cora Jefferson's American
01:05fiction into roughly 600 theaters. The critically acclaimed film stars Jeffrey Wright as a frustrated
01:10author facing the black artist dilemma. For more box office moves and updates,
01:15keep watching The Hollywood Reporter News.
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