The Cheetah Girls (film)
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| Directed by | Oz Scott |
| Written by | Deborah Gregory (novel) |
| Produced by | Debra Martin Chase Jacqueline George Deborah Gregory Whitney Houston |
| Music by | Jeremy Sweet John Van Tongeren |
| Distributed by | Disney Channel |
Release date | August 15, 2003 |
Running time | 100 min. |
| Language | English |
| Budget | N/A |
The Cheetah Girls is a Disney Channel Original Movie based on a series of young adult books, The Cheetah Girls by Deborah Gregory.
The book series is about a girl singing group who seek to be discovered and become famous. The film is about four teenage girls in New York seeking a record deal. They are discovered by a record producer while rehearsing for a school talent competition.
Due to the popularity of the film, Disney formed a singing group with 3 of the four lead actresses (excluding Raven-Symoné), also named "The Cheetah Girls".
Cast
- Raven-Symoné .... Galleria Garibaldi
- Adrienne Bailon .... Chanel Simmons
- Kiely Williams .... Aquanetta Walker
- Sabrina Bryan .... Dorinda Rogers
- Lynn Whitfield .... Dorothea
- Sandra Caldwell .... Drinka
- Juan Chioran .... Francobollo
- Lori Anne Alter .... Juanita (as Lori Alter)
- Kyle Schmid .... Derek
- Denton Rowe .... Mackerel
- Vince Corazza .... Jackal Johnson
- Linette Robinson .... Dana
- Kyle Saunders .... Pucci
- Rothaford Gray .... Dodo
- My Anh Tran .... Julia (as My Ahn Tran)
- Enis Esmer .... Comedian
- Johnie Chase .... Doorman
- Kim Roberts .... Mrs. Bosco
- Vanessa Thompson .... Twinkle
Differences between book and film
- Perhaps the biggest change was cutting out the character Anginette, Aqua's twin sister and fifth member of the group.
- Dorinda is changed from bi-racial to caucasian.
- The Cheetah Girls all attend one school (In the books, Aqua and Angie attend a performing arts annex as opposed to fashion school.)
- Galleria is changed from tough, but ultimately warm-hearted to clinical and icy.
- Dorothea was originally intended to be a six-foot, plus-size, diva. In the movie she is short and waify.
- No reference was made to Chanel's eating disorder, which she suffered from in the books.
- Twinkie is changed from caucasian to African-American.
- There is no reference to the Kats N' Kitties club, a club to which all the members belong
- Derek is changed from African-American to caucasian.
- There is no reference to Aqua's parents being divorced.
The Soundtracks
TV Series
The Cheetah Girls TV series is a Disney Channel original show put on hiatus after four episodes, according to "TRL" in November of 2005. The show was put on hiatus after the contract for That's So Raven was renewed. Therefore, Raven would not have been able to be in the show. Now that That's So Raven is over, there is no news whether or not the show will start filming again. It is possible that disney channel is waiting to see how the ratings are for the August 25th release of The Cheetah Girls 2, to decide whether or not the show will be aired.
Sequels
- The Cheetah Girls 2 will be released in August 2006.
Trivia
- The Cheetah Girls was filmed in Toronto, Canada and New York City in January 2003
- Drinka's character is most likely inspired by Evelyn King.
- In the Cheetah Girls film there are no twins, but in the novel there is.
- If you look closely in the closing scene, while the girls are dancing, Adrienne Bailon's sweatshirt goes from partially zipped, to completly unzipped, and it keeps switching.
- The Cheetah Girls DVD was the first by a DCOM to be certified Platinum for DVD sales of over 1.2 million. The highest selling DCOM DVD is High School Musical
Video Game
The Cheetah Girls video game is set for release in 2006 from Buena Vista Games