Girls Trip

CTL-E-6242 · Work · film · 2017

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Girls Trip is a 2017 Universal Pictures comedy film directed by Malcolm D. Lee and produced by Will Packer. The R-rated film follows four lifelong friends who reunite for a trip to New Orleans for the annual Essence Festival, where, in Box Office Mojo's synopsis, sisterhoods are rekindled and wild sides rediscovered. Its four leads are Regina Hall, Queen Latifah, Jada Pinkett Smith, and Tiffany Haddish, whose performance, TheWrap wrote, launched her into mainstream stardom. Released on July 21, 2017, the film opened in second place behind Dunkirk and earned a rare A+ CinemaScore from opening-day audiences. Made on a $19 million budget, it became the breakout live-action comedy of its summer: Box Office Mojo's final figures record $115,171,585 in domestic grosses and $140,552,359 worldwide. Its success — a Black women-led ensemble comedy outperforming industry expectations — was widely read in trade coverage as further evidence against the assumption that Black-led films could not travel commercially, and it led to further work between its director, producer, and breakout star at Universal.

The record

• Also known as: Girls Trip (2017)

Notes

Staged 2026-10-16 under CTL-GOV-006 (Scan Tail Wave 6 — 747 Program, Wave 13; sixth Scan Tail packet at the founder’s 40-record size). Gate A (2026-10-16): Gate A CLEAR (script + hand-checked 2026-10-16): no Girls Trip entity, alias, or variant in the live graph (3,910 entities). ID CTL-E-6242 free at staging. Supply: 747 Supply Ledger — scan string #2545 (corpus-gap-candidates-2026-10-15.json), banked in the Scan Tail Wave 5 reserve (Appendix E), re-screened CLEAR against the live graph at 3,910 entities by this wave. The supply supplied the name only; every fact is sourced under CTL-GOV-004. SCOPE GATE: National-scope Work record (Universal release, New Orleans setting); no Chicago claim is made. Its graph value is as the defining 2010s Black women-led ensemble comedy and a Haddish/Latifah career record. Vital status: Released July 21, 2017 (Box Office Mojo title page, opened 2026-10-16); a completed, theatrically released work — no ongoing-status question. STATISTICS — All figures dated to the opened surfaces, accessed 2026-10-16. Budget $19 million (Box Office Mojo weekend report; TheWrap — in agreement). Final grosses: domestic $115,171,585; worldwide $140,552,359 (Box Office Mojo title page). CONFLICT SHOWN, NOT BLENDED: the opening weekend figure differs by surface and vintage — Box Office Mojo's July 2017 weekend report estimated $30.37 million (2,591 theaters), while its title page records the final opening as $31,201,920; TheWrap rounds the worldwide total to $140 million. The description carries the final title-page figures and this note preserves the estimate. MEDIA: photo HELD (HELD — candidate: the film's theatrical key art (poster image carried on the Box Office Mojo title page, Amazon/IMDb media). Studio key art is rights-controlled; no file page was read at file level and NO license is claimed — PHOTO-001 verification deferred.); chart FILLED (charts/chart-ctl-e-6242-girls-trip.svg); video HELD (No matching-entity CTL Short in the Shorts Link Map (233 rows, grepped 2026-10-16). Near-miss named: Short #156, 'Queen Latifah — First Solo Gold Album to an Oscar Nomination' — a Short about a Girls Trip cast member's solo career, not about the film.); audio HELD (no rights-cleared matching-entity audio staged); map N/A. MEDIA LAYER (staged 2026-10-16; full per-asset PHOTO-001 records + embed specs in the packet's staged JSON, Drive packet folder): map = N/A (Non-place record; maps attach to places and institutions.) | visual_assets = HELD: | chart = FILLED (CTL-created chart (black / deep red / gold) built only from this record’s sourced statistics and timeline fact) | video = HELD (No matching-entity CTL Short in the Shorts Link Map (233 rows, grepped 2026-10-16). Near-miss named: Short #15) | audio = HELD (HELD: No CTL-owned or rights-cleared matching-entity audio exists at staging.)

Referenced by

• Queen Latifah — starred in → this record
• Tiffany Haddish — starred in → this record

Sources

• Box Office Mojo — Girls Trip (2017), title page (accessed 2026-10-16) — synopsis: four lifelong friends travel to New Orleans for the annual Essence Festival; domestic release July 21, 2017; final grosses — domestic $115,171,585 (81.9%), international $25,380,774 (18.1%), worldwide $140,552,359; final domestic opening $31,201,920 — https://www.boxofficemojo.com/title/tt3564472/ (primary source · build store)
• Box Office Mojo — 'Dunkirk' Delivers $50.5M Debut, 'Girls Trip' Opens with $30M and 'Valerian' Stumbles (July 2017) (accessed 2026-10-16) — Universal's Girls Trip opened in second place with an estimated $30.37 million in 2,591 theaters; budget of $19 million; producer Will Packer; stars Regina Hall, Tiffany Haddish, Jada Pinkett Smith, and Queen Latifah; rare A+ CinemaScore; opening audience 79% female and 59% African American — https://www.boxofficemojo.com/article/ed861930500/ (build store)
• TheWrap — Can the Team Behind 'Girls Trip' Land Another Box Office Hit With 'Night School'? (September 25, 2018) (accessed 2026-10-16) — Girls Trip director Malcolm D. Lee and producer Will Packer; the film launched Tiffany Haddish into mainstream stardom; earned $140 million worldwide against a $19 million budget; a Universal release — https://www.thewrap.com/night-school-box-office/ (build store)

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