Get In 'Mean Girls', We’re Going Streaming

 

The limits to streaming this year’s Mean Girls musical movie will not exist for long. The film arrives on Paramount+ in the United States and Canada on Tuesday, March 5, so if you’re in either country it’s most certainly out as you’re reading this. It will make its way to the streamer’s international markets at a later date.

Released theatrically on January 12, its Paramount+ streaming arrival comes having originally been targeted for a straight-to-Paramount+ release that only made the shift to theaters in September. It was its only primary release date, as it never received one when it was still a Paramount+ release. The shift certainly paid off though, as Mean Girls topped the domestic box office for three consecutive weeks, taking in over $104 million globally. March 5 is the 53rd day since the film’s release, a week beyond the originally planned February 27 streaming premiere, according to Paramount’s Q1 roadmap. This results in a loosened adherence to the 45-day window than what so many Paramount films have gotten before they hit the streamer. When it adheres, it’s usually under 50.

Based on the Tony-nominated Broadway musical and in turn the classic 2004 film that inspired it, both from Tina Fey, Mean Girls watches as new student Cady Heron, played by Angourie Rice, makes friends in outcasts Janis, played by Auli’i Cravalho and Damian, played by Jaquel Spivey. However, she ends up landing within the popular girls clique called “The Plastics”, led by Regina George, played by Reneé Rapp and underlings Gretchen Wieners, played by Bebe Wood and Karen Shetty, played by Avantika. Regina turns hostile as Cady falls for her ex, Aaron Samuels, played by Christopher Briney, complicating her ability to survive her first high school experience and so Cady must find a way to topple the hierarchy.

Directed by Arturo Perez and Samantha Jayne, and with the music by Jeff Richmond and lyrics by Nell Benjamin, this version also stars Fey and Tim Meadows, along with Jenna Fischer, Busy Philipps, Ashley Park, Mahi Alam, Connor Ratliff, and features a cameo by the original film’s star Lindsay Lohan. Fey again wrote the script and produced alongside Lorne Michaels. Richmond, Benjamin, Eric Gurian, Erin David and Pamela Thur served as executive producers.

Sources: Paramount Press Express, Deadline