Hopes were high for the Archie Comics-inspired “Josie and the Pussycats” when it was released in 2001, featuring Rachael Leigh Cook as lead singer for The Pussycats, which included Tara Reid and Rosario Dawson.
The film was hardly a hit, bringing in just $14.2 million at the domestic box office. However, Cook remains proud of the film despite its inability to bring fans into theatres.
In fact, she’s reprising the role — albeit in stop-motion animated form, for the Adult Swim comedy series “Robot Chicken”. As Cook tells People, she and her co-stars are thrilled that the film has lived on as a cult classic. “It definitely took a second,” she said. “We all loved the movie we made, but sometimes movies don’t make money.
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