Teaching Mrs. Tingle (AKA Killing Mrs. Tingle)

All her life Leigh Ann Watson (Katie Holmes) has done the right thing. Her only ticket out of town is the one scholarship that goes to her school’s top student. All she needs is an “A” in history. There’s just one problem: Mrs. Tingle, the history teacher who for 20 years has terrorized the students of Grandsboro High. Now three best friends, falsely accused of cheating, in completely over their heads, have to prove their innocence and find their way out of an impossible situation. The real fun begins when, to stay in the game, they have to outsmart their teacher with the very rules she created.

May 10th 1999: A new poster for "Teaching Mrs. Tingle" (formerly titled 'Killing Mrs. Tingle'). Thanks to 'Gavin' for the image.

May 8th 1999: Variety reports that Miramax has changed the name of its upcoming film "Killing Mrs. Tingle," but has denied the move had anything to do with last month's Columbine High School massacre. The film, about a plot to kill a high school teacher played by Helen Mirren, is now called "Teaching Mrs. Tingle." It is set to open in wide release Aug. 20. Miramax spokesman Andrew Stengel said the company was thinking about the name change long before Littleton, Colo. was anything more than a flyover city. "It's not about killing a teacher. We call it a wicked comedy," Stengel said. "It's what 'Nine to Five' was to the working world, 'Teaching Mrs. Tingle' is to school."

April 27th 1999: Film composer Christopher Young ("Species") has signed a three-picture deal with Miramax. Young's first film score for the company will be "Killing Mrs. Tingle," a black comedy written by Kevin Williamson ("Scream"), who makes his directorial debut. "I am honored to work with Miramax," Young said. "I have the utmost respect for the Weinstein brothers, and I am thrilled to work with such a hot commodity as Kevin Williamson."

December 6th 1998: 'Walker' got his hands on a copy of the script for "Killing Mrs. Tingle" and sent in a short review:

I got my hands on a copy of it and it was great. I wanted to put it down around midnight last night and I was laying there just thinking "I gotta read it." This is a great script and it is NOT, I repeat NOTNOTNOTNOT a horror movie. More like a "wonder what is gonna happen next" type movie. It was written by Kevin Williamson (Scream, Scream 2, I Know What You Did Last Summer, The Faculty) and if if he directs as well as he writes then this is gonna be KICK @SS.

September 4th 1998: Dark Horizons received a "shopping list" of the make-up/FX items that will be used in Kevin Williamson's upcoming film, Killing Mrs. Tingle:

* Seventeen Bullet hits. Bare/covered flesh.
* Bleeding flesh hit to chest.
* Clotted blood around bullet wounds to flesh
* Several retractable, blood squirting knives which include a switch, carving, and butcher.
* Slashed throat appliance
* 2 full head and shoulders foam cast
* Old Age Make-up (Helen Mirren)
* Six-Foot Foam Silicon Decaying Corpse
* Inards covered with Ultraslime.
* Burn Make-up (Arms/Back)

April 14th 1998: Cinescape reports that Liz Stauber has been cast as Marybeth Carter in Dimension Films ' upcoming flick Killing Mrs. Tingle. Stauber's character will battle another student, played by Katie Holmes, for the title of valedictorian.

February 25th 1998: Variety reports that Helen Mirren has signed to portray an overbearing high school teacher in Killing Mrs. Tingle for Dimension Films. Katie Holmes is also cast, her character will lead a deadly student revolt against Mrs. Tingle.

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