‘Mean Girls’ Directors on Cutting Songs, Adding ‘Important’ Updates for Gen Z and Making That ‘NDA-Heavy’ Surprise Cameo Happen

Naman Ramachandran Paramount’s “Mean Girls” debuted atop the U.K. and Ireland box office with £3.2 million ($4.1 million), according to numbers from Comscore. After a stellar reign at the top, Warner Bros.’ “Wonka” slid to second place with £1.6 million and after seven weekends, has a total of £58.3 million.

Rebecca Rubin Film and Media Reporter Unlike Cannes and Venice, Sundance isn’t a film festival that inspires too many standing ovations. But moviegoers at the Eccles Theatre were moved (more than once!) to stand up and applaud after the premiere of “Will & Harper,” a funny, heartbreaking and poignant documentary about Will Ferrell taking a road trip with his longtime friend, Harper Steele, who transitioned at 61.

Lisa Vanderpump is teasing one thing that will be talked about on the upcoming season of Vanderpump Rules.

Stephen Rodrick Jesse Eisenberg‘s “A Real Pain” stars Eisenberg and Kieran Culkin as mismatched New York Jewish cousins. They’re on a trip to Poland in search of the life that their recently dead grandmother lived before the Holocaust. Benji is a buttoned up neurotic on OCD medicine while David is a charming fuckup with no prospects but a mouth that is equally hilarious and malignantly obnoxious.

Zack Sharf Digital News Director SPOILER ALERT: This story hints at a major cameo in the Sundance Film Festival premiere “Freaky Tales,” which debuted on opening night. Ryan Fleck and Anna Boden’s electrified the opening night of the 2024 Sundance Film Festival with “Freaky Tales,” a genre-driven anthology movie that tells four interconnected stories in 1987 Oakland, California. The movie is a return to indie filmmaking for Fleck and Boden, who made a name for themselves as the directors of indie hits like “Half Nelson” before they jumped into the Marvel Cinematic Universe with “Captain Marvel.” “It was great to come back to the indie film world in a lot of ways,” Boden said at the Variety Studio presented by Audible.

Gisele Bündchen just debuted a smoothie at a popular California grocery store. The healthy and satisfying treat has a touch of nostalgia as its flavors come together to emulate a P&J sandwich.

EXCLUSIVE: Ruaridh Mollica says he had a year to prepare for his “role of a lifetime — so far” in Finnish filmmaker Mikko Makela’s powerful new film Sebastian, which premieres at Sundance on Sunday.

A delivery driver has shared his top trick to prevent a car's windscreen from icing up and all it takes is a bottle of vodka.

The Mean Girls reboot may be out in theaters, but if it were up to Lindsay Lohan, there’d still be one final post-production tweak.

A slew of internet celebs are starring in a new sandwich competition from Gordon Ramsay.

Forecast snow in Greater Manchester is set to cause 'disruption to public transport and infrastructure' across the region, the Bee Network has announced.

Matt Donnelly Senior Film Writer Eugene Hernandez has reached the top of the mountain. The journalist turned nonprofit executive has spent decades rising through the ranks of the American independent film scene. This January he assumes his seat at its apex: as the director of the Sundance Film Festival.

Avantika is opening up about racially-charged comments about her following the release of the Mean Girls trailer back in November.

Rebecca Rubin Film and Media Reporter There’s a new queen bee at the box office. Paramount’s “Mean Girls” musical ruled over the competition with $32 million during the Martin Luther King Jr. holiday weekend.

Sonja Shaw is president of the Chino Valley Unified School District board of education. She supports a policy passed by the board in July that requires school officials to out trans students to their parents. Late last year, a judge in San Bernardino blocked the policy from being enforced. On Thursday, California Attorney General Rob Bonta warned warned in a legal memo to every school district and charter school board and superintendent in the state that district should not force staff to out trans students to their parents. Photo: Chino Valley Unified School District board meeting screenshot.

Arnold Schwarzenegger and fellow actor Kevin Miles (Jake from State Farm) were seen working out together earlier in the week at the famous Gold’s Gym in Venice, California. Check out the pic below!.

Paramount’s next iteration of Mean Girls has minted $3.25M in previews. That figure includes 4pm showtimes from yesterday as well as the “On Wednesdays We Wear Pink” early access screenings.

Mean Girls movie in cinemas.From Wednesday, January 10 to Monday, January 15, anyone with a new Uber teen account in any state (excluding California) will be able to order two free rides worth up to $15.The offer is available to teens between the ages of 13 and 17, who can use these accounts to request rides and meals with parental supervision.Directed by Arturo Perez Jr. and Samantha Jayne, and written by Tina Fey, the revamped musical version of Mean Girls was released in the US on January 8, and arrives in UK cinemas on January 12.The new film is an adaptation of the 2018 Broadway musical, which itself is based on the original 2004 movie, also written by Fey.

Labour and the Liberal Democrats have slammed Stephen Flynn for having a go at the "Westminster establishment" over the Horizon scandal.

Drew Barrymore is embracing nostalgia and sending her love to Adam Sandler!