New Trailers Drop for 'Mean Girls' and 'The First Omen'

New year and new movies to look forward too in 2024. There are many highly anticipated feature films set for release in 2024 and a pair of those movies now have brand new trailers. 20th Century Studios have dropped their first trailer for the upcoming prequel to the horror classic, The Omen, titled The First Omen. At the same time, Paramount Pictures released the final trailer for their musical adaptation of Mean Girls which is just days away from it's theatrical release.

The First Omen stars Nell Tiger Free, known for her part in the Apple TV series Servant. She's backed up by a terrific trio of well known character actors including Sonia Braga, Bill Nighy, and Ralph Ineson. The First Omen tells the story that leads into the 1976 film The Omen. In that horror classic, Gregory Peck plays an American diplomat whose child died, stillborn. Peck's Robert Thorn accepts an offer from the Church to pretend that the baby of a woman who died in childbirth that same day is actually his child. What he doesn't know is that the baby, named Damian, is the child of Satan. The First Omen is the story of that mother who died in child birth.

The First Omen was directed by Akasha Stevenson a directorial prodigy and graduate of the American Film Institute. Stevenson was lauded for her short film Vessels which follows the story of black market breast enhancement procedures in the trans community. The First Omen will be Stevenson's first full length feature film.

The other big trailer drop in this first week of January 2024 is the final trailer for Mean Girls, the musical. Have you noticed how much they are downplaying the fact that this is a musical? It's odd. The trailer does appear to feature some of the music but nothing of the actors actually breaking into elaborate song and dance routines. Very odd. Take a look.

Aussie actor Angourie Rice is taking on the role of Cady Heron, made famous by Lindsay Lohan in the original Mean Girls. And this story is set to play out quite similarly to the 2004 film. Singer and Actor Renee Rapp takes on the iconic role of Regina George, who Rachel McAdams portrayed in the 2004 film. Rapp is well known as the star of TV's The Sex Lives of College Girls and she has a thriving music career as well. So, again, why downplay the fact that this is a musical.

Mean Girls (The Musical) was directed by a duo of first time directors. Samantha Jayne and Arturo Perez Jr. took unique paths to get behind the camera on their first feature film. For Jayne, she was a breakthrough star on Tumblr and Instagram where she created the popular accounts Quarter Life Poetry. That project turned into a book, Quarter Life Poetry: Poems For The Young, Broke & Hangry, and eventually a short form series that was picked up by FXX.

Arturo Perez Jr. is a well respected music video director and artist out of Los Angeles. He and Samantha Jayne became a directing duo following the success of Jayne's Quarter Life Poetry. Together they formed a creative partnership called The Yes Bus, a creative collaboration which Perez Jr. describes as 'Violently listening' to your partner's creative idea. The two have built a website for The Yes Bus that goes further into their creative partnership.

There are returning cast members for this musical remake, which is unusual. Both Tina Fey and Tim Meadows are reprising their respective roles as school counselor Ms. Norbury and Principal Duvall. Whether these SNL veterans will sing in the movie is still unknown. Rounding out the cast of Mean Girls is Jon Hamm, already stealing scenes in this new trailer as an oblivious gym teacher, and Busy Phillips, who takes over the role Amy Poehler played in the 2004 film as Regina George's embarrassingly attentive mother.

The First Omen arrives in theaters nationwide on April 5th, 2024

Mean Girls (The Musical) arrives in theaters nationwide on January 12th, 2024.