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The sixth annual French Riviera Film Festival has unveiled its 2024 official poster, featuring an original work of art created exclusively for the festival by New York City-based, impressionistic/abstract artist Cindy Shaoul.

Tina Fey sat down with Bowen Yang and Matt Rogers on their 'Las Culturistas' podcast this week to discuss the Mean Girls movie musical, her tour with Amy Poehler, and more. The 30 Rock star praised Reneé Rapp's performance in the new movie and joked about TikTok criticism. Watch the video!

According to Variety, Mean Girls is projected to remain at the top box office spot for the third week in a row and bring in $6.7 million over the next three days.

Mean Girls is holding the top spot at the box office, despite weak numbers during the second weekend.

Since the release of the Mean Girls movie musical, the original Broadway cast recording has seen a streaming increase on Spotify. The film verison cuts nine of the songs that were performed in the Broadway production, leading fans to re-visit the cast recording after seeing the new film. Find out how Spotify streams increased on the cast recording!

Ashley Park has revealed that she went into 'critical septic shock' late last year and is now in recovery after several of her organs were affected and infected. Tony nominated Mean Girls star says that 'what started as tonsillitis spiraled into critical septic shock,' saying that her health has been improving.

After two trailers not featuring music from the film, the new film adaptation of Mean Girls was not explicitly sold to general audiences as a musical. After its triumphant opening at the box office, Variety reports that Paramount elected not to market the film as a musical, in an effort to not 'turn off audiences.'

Mean Girls led the long weekend box office with a 'grool' $32 million opening. The film seemingly over-performed at cinemas, surpassing its originally predicted opening gross of $30 million. It cost $36 million to make. The movie musical also surpassed the original 2004 film's opening weekend gross. In 2004.

Mean Girls opened with a fetch $3.3 million in previews at the North American box office on Thursday. Their box office score from the Thursday night showings put them on par with Wonka's initial screenings. The Timothee Chalamet-led movie musical has gone on to dominate the box office for multiple weeks.

Reneé Rapp is looking back on her five year journey with Mean Girls. Rapp appeared on The Late Show With Stephen Colbert to discuss stepping back into Regina George's heels after playing the role on Broadway. The Jimmy Award winner went on to discuss how she never thought she'd find success in acting. watch the video!

Get a first listen to the Mean Girls movie musical soundtrack featuring Angourie Rice, Reneé Rapp, Auli’i Cravalho, Jaquel Spivey, Avantika, Bebe Wood, Tim Meadows, and more. The soundtrack includes music by Jeff Richmond and lyrics by Nell Benjamin. Rapp also contributed to 'What Ifs' and 'Not My Fault' featuring Megan Thee Stallion.

'Cool Mom' Busy Philipps almost starred in Mean Girls on Broadway before appearing in the upcoming movie musical. Philipps revealed that Tina Fey thought she looked so much like Reneé Rapp, she offered her the role on Broadway prior to the 2020 shutdown due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Watch the video of the interview now!

One month after his Tony-nominated run in A Strange Loop on Broadway, Jaquel Spivey jumped into the shoes of Damian Hubbard in the Mean Girls movie musical. BroadwayWorld caught up with Spivey to discuss taking the leap from stage to screen, what it was like filming the movie musical, and more.

This morning, nominees for the 30th Annual Screen Actors Guild Awards® honoring outstanding individual, cast and ensemble performances for the past year were announced. Check out the full list of nominations, which include Danielle Brooks, Bradley Cooper, Carey Mulligan, Hannah Waddingham, the cast of The Gilded Age, and more.

The first public screenings of Mean Girls are here and the critics are revealing what they thought of the new movie musical adaptation. Ahead of the film's debut in theaters, find out what critics thought of the new movie musical. Read the reviews below and check back we continue to update this roundup with more reviews.

Get a first listen to Reneé Rapp singing 'World Burn' in the Mean Girls movie musical. Rapp first played on the role on stage, making her Broadway debut at the age of 19. She is now bringing the role to the big screen in the new Mean Girls movie musical adaptation.

Watch a new video clip from the upcoming Mean Girls movie musical, featuring Reneé Rapp as Regina George. In the preview, Rapp is singing part of 'Meet the Plastics,' the first introduction the North Shore High girl group. The Broadway alum is joined by Angourie Rice as Cady Heron, plus Avantika as Karen Shetty and Bebe Wood as Gretchen Wieners.

After four years at Broadway World Cabaret, quite a collection of photos has been amassed. These are the gasp-worthy pics.