Not Another Teen Movie

Release Date: December 14, 2001

 Not Another Teen Movie

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I can tell you everything you need to know about this film by stating that the previous title was Ten Things I Hate About Clueless Road Trips When I Can't Hardly Wait to Be Kissed. Clever, eh? Yes, we are witnessing typical Hollywood thinking in action as some clever person (and I’m grudgingly not being sarcastic here) has seen how much money teen movies have made, and how much money Scary Movie I and II have made, and decided to try to put the two hands together.

Our teen parody movie will undoubtedly follow the basic tenets of recent teen movies, using one as the main parody. My guess would be that She’s All That or 10 Things I Hate About You will be the main jumping-off point, similar to how Scream was the basis for Scary Movie. From there, we’ll get the usual scattershot volume of parodies, with signal-to-noise ratio on the jokes determining overall long-term success of the film, but the amount of humor in the teaser/trailer being almost the sole determinant for opening weekend performance. We do know from Scary Movie’s $42 million debut that a parody can open better than any of the films it mocks if its commercials are funny enough, so I can’t express enough how important the ad campaign is to determining the opening. (David Mumpower/BOP)




Vital statistics for Not Another Teen Movie
Main Cast Chyler Leigh, Chris Evans, Jaime Pressly
Supporting Cast Eric Christian Olsen, Mia Kirshner, Deon Richmond
Director Joel Gallen
Screenwriter Mike Bender, Adam Jay Epstein, Andrew Jacobson, Phil Beauman, Buddy Johnson
Distributor Sony/Columbia
Trailer Click Here for Trailer
Rating R
Running Time 89 minutes
Screen Count 2,365
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Comparison films for Not Another Teen Movie
Title
Date
Opening
Adjusted Opening
Screens
PSA
Adj PSA
Total BO
Adjusted Total
Mult
Matrix Reloaded, The 5/16/0391.77 91.77 3603 25471.00 25471.0 281.91 281.91 2.61
American Pie 2 8/10/0145.12 48.15 3063 14729.00 15120.0 145.10 154.86 3.22
Matrix, The 4/2/9927.78 33.10 2849 9751.00 11133.0 171.38 204.23 5.82
Legally Blonde 7/13/0120.38 21.75 2620 7778.00 7984.5 95.66 102.09 4.69
American Pie 7/9/9918.71 22.29 2507 7463.00 8520.7 101.74 121.24 5.44
She's All That 1/29/9916.07 19.15 2222 7232.00 8257.0 63.32 75.45 3.94
Varsity Blues 1/15/9915.92 18.97 2121 7506.00 8569.8 52.89 63.02 3.02
Road Trip 5/19/0015.48 17.31 2530 6119.00 6584.5 68.53 76.66 4.43
Never Been Kissed 4/9/9911.84 14.10 2455 4823.00 5506.6 55.47 66.10 4.68
Clueless 7/21/9510.61 14.70 1653 6419.00 8558.7 54.79 75.94 4.67
10 Things I Hate About You 4/2/998.33 9.92 2271 3668.00 4187.9 38.18 45.49 4.20
Can't Hardly Wait 6/12/988.03 10.32 1987 4041.00 4997.4 26.61 34.21 3.31


     


 
 

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