Material Girls
- For the song by Madonna, see Material Girl
| Material Girls | |
|---|---|
| File:Material Girls Official Poster.jpg Official poster for Material Girls | |
| Directed by | Martha Coolidge |
| Written by | John Quaintance, Jessica O'Toole, Amy Rardin |
| Produced by | Milton Kim, Tim Wesley, Mark Morgan, Guy Oseary, Hilary Duff, Susan Duff, Eva LaDue, David Faigenblum |
| Starring | Hilary Duff, Haylie Duff, Anjelica Huston, Brent Spiner, Lukas Haas |
| Distributed by | Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer |
Release date | August 18 2006 (U.S.) |
Material Girls is a satirical teen comedy film starring Hilary Duff and Haylie Duff. It is based on a script written by John Quaintance and is directed by Martha Coolidge, and it also stars Anjelica Huston, Lukas Haas, and Brent Spiner. It is co-produced by Patriot Pictures and Madonna's film production company, Maverick Entertainment.
Plot
Template:Spoiler The plot centers around Marchetta sisters, Tanzie (Hilary) and Ava (Haylie), a pair of rich, spoiled socialites who enjoy material things such as shopping and dating rather than caring about their late father's cosmetics company. When a scandal involving one of the company's products turns into an investigation, the girls find their assets frozen and must adjust to life without their fortune. They are tempted to listen to their advisors and sell the company to their biggest competitor (Huston) but decide to honor their father's memory by trying to turn it around themselves. Template:Endspoiler
Production and release
The film began production on April 18 2005, in Los Angeles, California. For the film's soundtrack, Hilary Duff recorded two new songs: "Happy" (which features the same music as "Play with Fire", her single released in August 2006) and a Timbaland-produced[1] cover version of Madonna's song "Material Girl", which was the inspiration for the film's story and is featured at the beginning of the film. Performed as a duet with Haylie Duff, it was supposed to be released as a single, but Haylie Duff said via MTV.com that its release had been cancelled because there was no time to shoot a music video.[citation needed]
On March 31, 2006, the entertainment site AndPop.com reported that Lukas Haas had said he did not expect the film to be released. These statements were confirmed on April 5, in an article in The Ryersonian. Haas expressed his unhappiness with the film, and said they had been trying to sell the film for a long time with little success.[2] On April 6, the website Box Office Mojo reported that MGM had picked up the rights to Material Girls and would be releasing it on August 25 (this was later changed to August 18). On May 2, the official website for Martha Coolidge reported that it would be released on around 2,000 screens.[3]
Material Girls was released in 1,500 theaters in the U.S. and debuted at number nine on the weekend box office chart, grossing $4.62 million dollars in its first three days of release.[4] The DVD for Material Girls was released on December 12 2006 in the U.S by 20th Century Fox. It is a double-sided DVD disc with special features including the music video for Hilary Duff's single "Play with Fire". In the UK the movie was released on March 2 2007, to co-inside with the release of Hilary's single With Love, Dignity album, and the UK release of her scent With Love...Hilary Duff. Due to "Play.com", The Material Girls UK Region 2 DVD Format, Is set for the 9th of July. Pre-ordering is now availible. The website also states that the DVD art work presented might change.
Box office
The movie was a box office failure, although it did manage to rake in more money than production costs.
- United States: $11,449,638 (1,509 Theaters)
- Australia: $1,298,934
- Iceland: $35,105
- New Zealand: $44,659
- United Kingdom: £ TBA
- Worldwide: $16,278,108
Cast
- Hilary Duff: Tanzania "Tanzie" Marchetta
- Haylie Duff: Ava Marchetta
- Anjelica Huston: Fabiella
- Brent Spiner: Tommy
- Lukas Haas: Henry
- Faith Prince: Pam
- Marcus Coloma: Rick
- Obba Babatundé: Craig
- Maria Conchita Alonso: Inez
Hilary Duff's Ex-boyfriend Joel Madden and his brother Benji Madden play men who steal Tanzie and Ava's car. When Tanzie is in jail one of the jail women Butch Brenda who's real name is Dot Jones also is Coach Kelly in Lizzie McGuire. The bodyguard at Ava's engagement party is Hilary's real-life bodyguard.
Trivia
- Tommy (Brent Spiner) says "Beam me up, huh?!" upon walking into Fabiella's office. This is a reference to Star Trek. Brent Spiner played the android second officer Data in "Star Trek: The Next Generation".
- In the movie, Hilary Duff appears to be a blonde but when they were shooting, she had already changed her hair color to dark brown. On the other hand, Haylie appears as a brunette, although she is actually a blonde.
- Hilary and Haylie both use Danger Hiptops aka T-Mobile Sidekick throughout the film whilst other characters are seen with the Motorola RAZR.
Notes
References
- Duff Sisters Team For Material Girls.
- Trio Joins the Material Girls Cast.
- Release Date of Material Girls.
- Hilary Duff film might never be released.
- Hilary Duff film Material Girls to be released.
- Hilary Duff Release Date of "Material Girls"
- Box office figures
