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Box office update: ‘Mean Girls’ buzzes by ‘The Beekeeper’ in photo finish

Written by on January 29, 2024

Box office update: ‘Mean Girls’ buzzes by ‘The Beekeeper’ in photo finish
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Although most outlets had The Beekeeper buzzing by the new Mean Girls musical film to top the box office over the weekend, Variety reports the opposite was actually true.

In a photo finish, Mean Girls topped the Jason Statham revenge pic by a mere $200,000: The former ended up with $6.9 million to the latter’s $6.7 million.

Paramount, which released Mean Girls, suspected to the trade that the NFL action on Sunday kept male moviegoers glued to their TVs, which could account for male-skewing Beekeeper‘s slightly weaker than previously thought close to a slow box office weekend.

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