Posted on 04/13/2017 7:34:52 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
Beauty and the Beast is joining the billion-dollar club at the worldwide box office.
Director Bill Condon‘s update of Disney‘s classic 1991 animated film likely will achieve the milestone by Thursday. (The entry of The Fate of the Furious in a handful of foreign markets on Wednesday is clouding the forecast.)
On Tuesday, Beauty, starring Emma Watson as Belle, grossed $9.7 million for a worldwide total of $993.2 million. The tentpole has earned $435.9 million domestically and $557.3 million overseas, led by China ($85.2 million) and the U.K. ($75.3 million).
Disney has plenty of reason to celebrate. Beauty and the Beast is the second of its live-action updates to cross $1 billion after Alice in Wonderland. Moreover, Disney will lay claim to 14 of the 29 movies to earn $1 billion or more.
The studio’s Rogue One: A Star Wars Story, released in December 2016, was the previous film to join the billion-dollar club, giving Disney four titles last year to accomplish that feat. The others were Captain America: Civil War, Finding Dory, and Zootopia.
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SOURCE: http://movieweb.com/beauty-beast-one-billion-dollar-milestone-global-box-office/
Even with a pretty steep budget of $160 million, Beauty and the Beast is going to wind up turning a huge profit for Disney, which is probably why they have a lot of other live-action adaptations in the works.
Next year will see a live take on Mulan, but they also have new takes on The Lion King, Dumbo, The Little Mermaid and many more at various stages of development.
Beauty and the Beast is slowing down a bit but it will still be able to bring in some more cash before the end of its run. It very well could be the highest-grossing movie of 2017 when all is said and done. If not, it will probably be very close.
So next year is Mulan?
Homosexual propaganda prevails?
And for those who couldn’t find the gey parts in the Disney movie, here is James Corden performing Beauty and the Beast in a Hollywood crosswalk... enjoy
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nu4Pzsolyhg#action=share
I saw it in the theater. Hated how they autotuned Belle’s singing voice. Ugh. And the animation seemed pretty dated, as good as a direct-to-DVD Barbie movie. I didn’t hate the film. It was just ... meh.
That’s fine. I’m still boycotting anything Disney.
worst Belle EVER.
You’d think Christian families would boycott it... but then Christian’s don’t boycott Starbucks for planned parenthood support either.
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