Disney’s “Beauty and the Beast” smashed box office records in its opening three-day weekend, taking in an unexpected US$170mil (RM752mil), according to industry estimates. “Beauty and the Beast” recorded the seventh best opening overall in the United States and Canada. Film site Fandango reported the movie had sold out at more than 1,000 showtimes in big cities and small, something more common for superhero blockbusters than for a family-oriented production. The specialized site BoxOfficeMojo estimates that Disney’s latest fairy tale adaptation may already have reached that point in worldwide sales. The film swept aside the previous North American box-office leader, Warner Brothers’ “Kong: Skull Island”; that movie’s second-week take of US$28.9mil was roughly half its opening weekend sales.

Source: The Star March 21, 2017 10:08 UTC