{"id":161842,"date":"2026-03-12T22:24:53","date_gmt":"2026-03-12T22:24:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/161842\/"},"modified":"2026-03-12T22:24:53","modified_gmt":"2026-03-12T22:24:53","slug":"harry-meghan-backed-cookie-queens-coming-to-theaters-this-summer-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/161842\/","title":{"rendered":"Harry, Meghan-backed &#8216;Cookie Queens&#8217; coming to theaters this summer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>1 of 5 | Olive (C) teaches the next generation of Girl Scouts in &#8220;Cookie Queens,&#8221; coming to theaters this summer. Photo courtesy of &#8220;Cookie Queens&#8221; Film <\/p>\n<p>March 12 (UPI) &#8212; Roadside Attractions announced Thursday that it has acquired the rights to the documentary Cookie Queens. Roadside will release the film theatrically this Summer.<\/p>\n<p>Cookie Queens premiered at the Sundance Film Festival in January, where UPI <a href=\"https:\/\/www.upi.com\/Entertainment_News\/Movies\/2026\/01\/27\/Harry-Meghan-Girl-Scout-documentary-Cookie-Queens\/4641769479664\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">praised its depiction<\/a> of young Girl Scouts&#8217; business acumen and family struggles. Director Alysa Nahmias followed Scouts ages 5 to teenagers.\n<\/p>\n<p>Meghan and Harry, Duchess and Duke of Sussex are executive producers. Meghan said in a statement, &#8220;As a former Girl Scout myself, with my mom as my troop leader, I have a personal affinity for this film.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The film received standing ovations at its Sundance screenings. Nahmias noted that while a beloved traditions, cookie sales generate $800 million annually for Girl Scouts of America.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;This became a fascinating lens to explore a story about girlhood &#8212; the ambition, resilience, humor and vulnerability that emerge as these girls navigate growing up in a world shaped by the tensions between community and capitalism,&#8221; Nahmias said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"1 of 5 | Olive (C) teaches the next generation of Girl Scouts in &#8220;Cookie Queens,&#8221; coming to&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":161843,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[37],"tags":[157,158,9,24,63,122,124,123],"class_list":["post-161842","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-queens","tag-entertainment","tag-movies","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-nyc","tag-queens","tag-queens-headlines","tag-queens-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/161842","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=161842"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/161842\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/161843"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=161842"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=161842"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=161842"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}