Today we are going to research the movie Mean Girls, released in 2004, directed by Mark Waters and starring Lindsay Lohan, Rachel McAdams, Tim Meadows, Ana Gasteyer, Amy Poehler, and Tina Fey. Let's start with the screenplay of the Means Girls. Tina Fey wrote the screenplay for Mean Girls based on Rosalind Wiseman's 2002 self-help book "Queen Bees & Wannabes: Helping Your Daughter Survive Cliques, Gossip, Boyfriends & Other Realities of Adolescence" with her being inspired to write the characters by her friends and family members. This film was produced by Lorne Michaels Productions, an American multimedia entertainment studio film company that has produced films such as Lassie (1994) and Wayne's World (1992). The intended/target audience for the film is teenage girls, with the primary female cast and the main protagonist of the movie being a woman, and the girly pink aesthetic of the movie. The film's budget cost 17 million, with a box office of 130.1 million USD and a profit of 113 million USD. Mean Girls went under the distribution company that Paramount Pictures was, releasing it in theaters and later having a Broadway show. The marketing of the movie catered to teen girls on online cyberspace and television instead of on newspapers or the radio. The sassiness of the characters stood out when the majority of women were portrayed as soft or delicate. Mean Girls needed Lorne Michaels Productions and Paramount Pictures to work together in order to get them where they are today.
Witter, Brad. “Tina Fey Used Her Real Life as Inspiration for the Unforgettable Characters in 'Mean Girls'.” Biography.com, A&E Networks Television, 19 May 2020, https://www.biography.com/news/tina-fey-mean-girls-characters#:~:text=When%20Tina%20Fey%20wrote%20the,Boyfriends%20%26%20Other%20Realities%20of%20Adolescence.
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