On 4-17, I posted here that I was going to start my months long try for Alice and the other final girls with a starting bonus of 288.
To date, I've finished Maggie, Winona, and Anya. Lin is 10/10 paid for but still has 24 more hours of filming to go before she unlocks, and Alice is 5/10. This means that I am halfway done. After unlocking Winona/Anya I briefly considered a reset followed by a run where I wouldn't unlock them, but I decided to train their staminas instead.
When the sale happened, I did buy two "resets" to continue progress and get my bonus up to 335. I was fortune that the Cinco filming event gave me a lot of time warps to play with.
If I was smarter, I probably would have trained the stamina of my best girls higher before I started, to level the filming buildings faster. I was too laser focused on my total multiplier, which admittedly is much more important. I had hoped to get Alice done by mid July, but mid August is looking more likely unless I spend gems. This Cherry Event is an unexpected new source of Gems, but I saving my hoarded gems to spend on accessories and I think that I'll wait for now.