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• However, last year’s MLK weekend will be hard to beat: It was led by the fifth frame of 20th Century Studios’ Avatar: The Way of Water with $39.8M, and the second weekend of Universal/Blumhouse’s M3GAN with $21.7M, good for a total overall four-day holiday B.O..
• Tonight, Paramount is holding early previews of Mean Girls at 450 Dolby and PLF theaters, aka an “On Wednesdays We Wear Pink Early Access Screening” at 7 p.m. That money will be rolled into Thursday previews, which start at 4 p.m..
• By Anthony D'Alessandro Editorial Director/Box Office Editor Exhibitors are lighting candles and saying prayers that Paramount‘s feature musical redux Mean Girls carries them big-time throughout January after a dry spell caused by the double strikes..
• Mean Girls, rated PG-13 and directed by Samantha Jayne and Arturo Perez Jr., was written by Tina Fey, based on the stage musical for which she wrote the book, with music by Jeff Richmond and lyrics by Nell Benjamin..
• The original 2004 movie, which starred Lindsay Lohan, Rachel McAdams, Amanda Seyfried and Lacey Chabert, opened to $24.4M and ended its domestic run at $86M domestic, $130.1M worldwide..
• He becomes captivated by the power and glory of the rising Messiah and His apostles, and risks everything to carve his own path to a divine life..