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Win Passes To The St. Louis Advance Screening Of MEAN GIRLS

From the comedic mind of Tina Fey comes a new twist on the modern classic, MEAN GIRLS. New student Cady Heron (Angourie Rice) is welcomed into the top of the social food chain by the elite group of popular girls called “The Plastics,” ruled by the conniving queen bee Regina George (Reneé Rapp) and her minions Gretchen (Bebe Wood) and Karen (Avantika). However, when Cady makes the major misstep of falling for Regina’s ex-boyfriend Aaron Samuels (Christopher Briney), she finds herself prey in Regina’s crosshairs. As Cady sets to take down the group’s apex predator with the help of her outcast friends Janis (Auli’i Cravalho) and Damian (Jaquel Spivey), she must learn how to stay true to herself while navigating the most cutthroat jungle of all: high school.    

Directed by Samantha Jayne + Arturo Perez Jr., MEAN GIRLS opens in theaters on January 12.

https://www.meangirls.com/

The St. Louis advance screening is 7PM on Tues, Jan 9th at AMC Esquire 7 (6PM Arrival Suggested)

Please arrive early as seating is not guaranteed.

Enter at the link: http://gofobo.com/eDzgZ40317

RATED PG-13

Avantika plays Karen Shetty, Angourie Rice plays Cady Heron, Renee Rapp plays Regina George and Bebe Wood plays Gretchen Wieners in Mean Girls from Paramount Pictures. Photo: Jojo Whilden/Paramount © 2023 Paramount Pictures.

Executive Producers Jeff Richmond, Nell Benjamin, Eric Gurian, Erin David, Pamela Thur

Produced by Lorne Michaels, Tina Fey

Book by Tina Fey, Music by Jeff Richmond, Lyrics by Nell Benjamin, Based on the Stage Musical “Mean Girls”  

Screenplay by Tina Fey 

©2023 Paramount Pictures. All Right Reserved.

BELUSHI, A Candid Portrait of the Legendary Comedian, Launches on Showtime November 22nd

Candid Portrait of a Beloved Comedy Icon Featuring Previously Unheard Audiotapes Directed by R.J. Cutler (Billie Eilish: The World’s a Little Blurry)

By age thirty John Belushi was on the top-rated television show, had the top grossing comedy in movie history and the top grossing record album in the world. But as John’s fame grew, so did his demons. R.J. Cutler directs an examination of Belushi’s life drawn largely from a previously unheard audio archive made shortly after Belushi’s death by his high school sweetheart and later wife, Judy Belushi. Cutler tells the story of his too-brief life illustrated by his own diary entries and poems, and in words of Judy and his collaborators, friends, and family, including Dan Aykroyd, Jim Belushi, Penny Marshall, Lorne Michaels, Carrie Fisher, Chevy Chase, Harold Ramis, Jane Curtin, and Ivan Reitman.

‘MacGruber’ Movie On the Way

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How do you take a 30-second premise and expand it into an hour and a half?   Just ask Lorne Michaels.   His SNL writing staff has been turning 30-second ideas into 10-minute skits for years, and, whenever there is the slightest bit of interest in that skit, it expands into a 90-minute train wreck for movie theaters.   It seems ‘MacGruber’ will be the latest attempt at turning launching one of these skits into the next ‘Wayne’s World.’

While accepting a Peabody award for SNL at Monday’s ceremony, Michaels spoke with The Hollywood Reporter and mentioned something about the possibility of a ‘MacGruber’ film.

“It would have to be in the summer because we are back in production in the fall,” he told THR when asked about the possible production timing. “We’re still in discussions on details.”

MacGruber is a hilarious sketch, but there is very little room for turning this into a feature-lenght film.   Only time will tell if this is a comedic or financial success, but, right now, this idea doesn’t interest me in the least.

Source: The Hollywood Reporter