The record that Lindsay Lohan earned for half a day of work in the new Mean Girls

Lindsay Lohan It was researched long before research existed. So it should come as no surprise that Paramount paid the actress handsomely to make a cameo in the new one Bad Girls (OR Bad Girls).

Sources say Lohan, who became one of Hollywood’s biggest stars after starring in the 2004 film of the same title, he earned about $500,000 for half a day’s work in the musical starring a new Plastics clique led by Angourie Rice and Reneé Rapp. Paramount declined to comment and a representative for Lohan declined a request for comment from Variety.

Lohan’s surprise entry in the new film, written by Tina Fey, drew thunderous applause at its New York premiere. In her scene, Lohan returns to the math competition that served as an epilogue to the original and provides a full-circle moment for the franchise. Bad Girls, which also spawned a Broadway musical. Lohan flew in from Dubai to walk the red carpet.

Like other movie studios, Paramount has been eager to lean into the nostalgia factor, soliciting original cast members to appear in small but crucial roles in recent films like baywatch2017. For Top Gun: nonconformistAs of 2022, Paramount brought back Val Kilmer to film an emotional scene as Tom “Iceman” Kazansky, despite the difficulties involved, as the actor lost much of his ability to speak after battling throat cancer.

While Lohan plays neither a flashback version nor an older relative of her teenage alter ego Cady Heron Bad Girlshis scene offers a clever bridge between past and present.

Debuts in Argentina

With the title of Bad Girlsthis new version will arrive in Argentine cinemas on Thursday 1 February.

The musical film, directed by Samantha Jayne and Arturo Pérez Jr., has already found its success at the box office, taking first place over the Martin Luther King Jr. holiday weekend with a gross of $33.2 million annually, at a national level.

Paramount originally planned to release the $36 million film via streaming only on Paramount+, but changed course after test screenings indicated there was still appetite to see it on the big screen. Exit polls show that the film appeals to both Generation Z and the over-35 demographic, the latter buoyed by Lohan’s presence, which Paramount managed to keep under wraps until the film’s debut.

The new one Bad Girls revolves around the high school dramas of Cady Heron (Rice) as she navigates her way through the mob ruled by Regina George (Rapp replaces Rachel McAdams, who didn’t return). Avantika Vandanapu and Bebe Wood round out the film’s main quartet, while Fey and Tim Meadows reprise their roles as a jaded math teacher and a hapless principal, respectively.

Lohan took a more than decade-long hiatus from studio films before returning with the Netflix rom-com Falling for Christmas in 2022. We will see her soon Irish longingalso from Netflix, which will premiere on March 15.