Friends has finally been given the go-ahead for the big-screen, Daily Mail has learned. Wise decision – look at how much money Sex and the City movie is raking up! I love Friends – great looking bunch, hilarious!

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Cast members Jennifer Aniston, Courteney Cox, Matthew Perry, Matt LeBlanc, Lisa Kudrow and David Schwimmer will be assuming their old roles for the big-screen within the next 18 months.

‘What’s held back a Friends movie so far is that people were worried that Jennifer had simply become too famous to play Rachel again.

While Cox, 44, LeBlanc, 40, Perry, 39, Kudrow, 45 and Schwimmer, 41, were believed to be keen on the reunion, Aniston, 39, is believed to have dragged her heels.

Now, however, she is keen to move ahead with the project, which will be produced by Warner Bros.

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I’m about to cry I am a sucker for Friends!  I still use a Friends’ screensaver, can you believe that? I have every Friends dvd, I have tons of Friends magazines. I can’t wait – let’s do it before they get up to their 50s.. I say while they are still hot for now!

What do you think? Friends will be as big as Sex and the City Movie or even bigger?