Queen Bees rule the box office as Mean Girls and The Beekeeper continue a fetch streak

Not even Jason Statham can dethrone the Plastics (unless he gets a bus).

Get in, loser. We’re seeing Mean Girls again.

Gretchen Wieners is still trying to make “fetch” happen in the recent remake of the 2004 classic and this time, she might very well succeed. The Mean Girls movie musical, adapted from the 2018 Tony-nominated Broadway show, has dominated the box office for the second week in a row, per Comscore.

The Tina Fey-penned comedy earned $11.7 million in its second weekend of release, bringing its domestic tally to $50 million. The familiar story once again follows Cady Heron (Angourie Rice) as she adjusts to life in Illinois and, more importantly, to the horrors of high school. Evidently, audiences are enjoying the experience of being victimized by Reneé Rapp as Regina George because the film made on a budget of $36 million has already recouped, with a worldwide gross of $66.2 million.

MEAN GIRLS, from left: Bebe Wood, Renee Rapp, Avantika
Bebe Wood, Renee Rapp, Avantika in 'Mean Girls'.

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Buzzing just behind the hype of the Plastics comes a very different fight for survival. The Jason Statham action thriller The Beekeeper earned an estimated $8.4 million over the weekend for a total of $31 million domestically ($75.3 million globally). Don’t let the simplicity of gathering honey fool you, the title refers to a secret organization of skilled agents who operate beyond governmental jurisdiction to expose corruption.

On a more lighthearted note, more than one musical continued to find success at this weekend's box office. Timothée Chalamet’s chocolatier origin story Wonka sung its way to third place with another $6.4 million, bringing its domestic total to $187 million ($531.7 million worldwide).

Elsewhere, the slightly raunchy and fairly sweet R-rated rom-com Anyone but You spent another week at fourth place, holding strong in its fifth week of release with an additional $5.4 million. With a domestic haul of $64.2 million and a worldwide gross of $100.2 million, the Sydney Sweeney and Glen Powell starring film is proving that romcoms can still succeed at the box office.

Glen Powell and Sydney Sweeney star in Anyone But You.
Glen Powell and Sydney Sweeney star in 'Anyone But You'.

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Families also continued to flock to theaters for Migration, the animated film penned by The White Lotus creator Mike White. The film earned another $5.3 million, bringing its haul to $94.6 million domestically ($191.6 million worldwide).

This weekend’s only newcomer I.S.S. didn’t manage to crack the top five, falling below even Aquaman and the Lost Kingdom (which earned $3.6 million for a domestic total of $114 million and worldwide cume of $396 million). The claustrophobic space-set thriller, starring Ariana DeBose, Chris Messina, and John Gallagher Jr., collected just $3 million from its debut in 2,520 theaters.

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