John Tucker Must Die is a 2006 American high school comedy film about a trio of girls (played by Ashanti, Sophia Bush, and Arielle Kebbel) who plot to break the heart of manipulative basketball star John Tucker (Jesse Metcalfe) after they learn he has been secretly dating all three and pledging each is "the one". They recruit cute wallflower Kate (Brittany Snow) in their scheme to publicly humiliate the cad. The movie was released in North America on July 28 2006. It was directed by Betty Thomas.
The movie debuted at #3 at the box office with 14.7 million dollars made in the opening week. After three weeks the movie placed #9 at the Box Office and made $40,000,000. Most of the filming was done at the Heritage Woods Secondary School in Port Moody, British Columbia, Canada during the summer of 2005, and set in Seattle, The movie is the first major film to host its official homepage on MySpace; the film's production studio, 20th Century Fox, is a subsidiary of News Corporation, which also owns MySpace. The DVD was released on November 14 2006.
Scott and Kate make reference to the Cheap Trick song "I Want You To Want Me", and at the end of the movie the newer version of the song, performed by Letters To Cleo, can be heard in the background. This is the same song popularized by 10 Things I Hate About You (1999).
Brittany Snow (Kate) and Sophia Bush (Beth) have both played girlfriends of John Hensley (II)'s character Matt on the show "Nip/Tuck" (2003).
