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Mean Girls (the musical) tops the box office, driven by female audience

Film reboot attracts a lot of viewers who weren’t around for the original
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Mean Girls arrived in B.C. theatres last weekend. Photo: Jojo Whilden/Paramount Pictures

Winter storms and cinema closures in North America didn’t dampen the opening weekend for “ Mean Girls.

The Paramount release, adapted from the Broadway musical and the 2004 Tina Fey movie, earned $28 million in its first three days in theaters according to studio estimates Sunday. Not accounting for inflation, that’s more than the $24.4 million the first movie made in its opening weekend.

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