A black-haired woman with a silver lightning bolt tattoo on her forehead, nicknamed Jetta, madly mentions how she at Starlight replaced them with a better band.Įrica apologizes profusely to them and she begs them to come back with her. Neither is another girl with her hair tied in two buns, slightly dyed blue, nicknamed Stormer. Roxy, a pretty young woman with short bleached blonde hair, isn't too happy to see her. Lindsey agrees to this new name.Įrica drives over to an abandoned parking lot and seeks out an old girls band she hasn't seen for years. During the final concert, where Jem and her sisters now play together, Rio chats with a woman called Lindsey Pierce (Jem creator Christy Marx in a cameo role), who asks Rio what to call the band and he suggests calling them Jem and the Holograms. They also find a will from Rio's late father giving him a majority of shares in Starlight, effectively giving him control of the company.Īt the end of the movie, Rio and Jem kiss, Erica is fired, the house is safe, and everyone is happy. The reward for finishing the hunt is a final hologram message video from Jerrica and Kimber's father. Rio and the girls break into Starlight headquarters, almost getting caught by Erica, but they succeed.
Jerrica soon realizes that the last piece is the earrings that her dad told her to wear, but Erica told her to take them off when she first went to Starlight the earrings are now stored in Erica's office. They also vow to finish the scavenger hunt with her, and Rio comes along as well. Her sisters end up coming back to visit her at the old house and make amends. After a dull solo performance, Jerrica becomes depressed over her mistake and goes to visit the house in LA she used to live in with Kimber and her father. Her sisters soon find out about the contract, denounce her for leaving them out of the deal, and leave. Erica happily obliges, but she says that she wants Jerrica to leave her sisters and start a solo contract, which Jerrica signs thinking that she is doing it for the family. Aunt Bailey tells Jerrica via FaceTime that their house is going for auction in a few days, and Jerrica asks for an advance. On the way, Rio and Jerrica develop feelings, much to Erica's dismay, who signs Rio off to another singer. The first piece is found in the Santa Monica Pier the second is found in a guitar once owned by Jerrica's father coincidentally in a club where the band plays. The objective is to find several missing pieces designed to fit into the robot so that it can be fully activated. In the process, they also bring along a small robot called 51N3RG.Y (pronounced synergy) built by the Benton sisters' deceased father, Emmett the robot turns on suddenly and leads them on a scavenger hunt where each clue represents something Jerrica did or wanted to do with her father. Erica is polite and courteous with the four girls but seems to take a particular interest in Jerrica, who she sees as a potential superstar. Jerrica and her sisters travel to LA because Jerrica earns a record deal with Starlight productions, where they end up meeting producer Erica Raymond and her son Rio. She accidentally forgets to delete the video, and an Internet-obsessed Kimber posts it onto YouTube, garnering millions of views in a single day. Jerrica learns one day that due to Aunt Bailey's financial problems their house will be auctioned, and vents her emotions by recording a song using Kimber's video camera that she uses to post blogs, but she uses a disguise, calling herself Jem, a nickname given to her by her deceased father. The four girls frequently videotape themselves playing music and wearing colorful '80s outfits just for fun, but Jerrica is too shy to sing on camera. Teen songwriter Jerrica Benton and her younger sister Kimber live with their Aunt Bailey and two foster sisters, Aja and Shana. In Universal Pictures' Jem and the Holograms, four aspiring musicians will take the world by storm when they see that the key to creating your own destiny lies in finding your own voice. The film grossed $2.3 million worldwide on a $5 million budget.Īs a small-town girl catapults from underground video sensation to global superstar, she and her three sisters begin a one-in-a-million journey of discovering that some talents are too special to keep hidden. Jem and the Holograms was theatrically released on Octoby Universal Pictures.
The film was produced by Hasbro Studios and Blumhouse Productions, co-produced and directed by Jon M. The film stars Aubrey Peeples as Jem, Stefanie Scott as Kimber, Hayley Kiyoko as Aja and Aurora Perrineau as Shana. Chu and based on the iconic 1980s animated series, Jem. Jem and the Holograms (shortened in online promotions as Jem: The Movie) is a live-action, full-length feature film directed by Jon M.