'Mean Girls' Takes 1st Place at Box Office

This image released by Paramount Pictures shows, from left, Avantika, Angourie Rice, Renee Rapp and Bebe Wood in a scene from "Mean Girls." (Jojo Whilden/Paramount via AP)

Winter storms and cinema closures in North America didn't dampen the opening weekend for " Mean Girls. " The Paramount release, adapted from the Broadway musical and the 2004 Tina Fey movie, earned $28 million in its first three days in theaters according to studio estimates Sunday. Not accounting for inflation, that's more than the $24.4 million the first movie made in its opening weekend.