Walt DisneyWalt Disney's Beauty and the Beast is still going strong in its sixth day of worldwide release. Besides, while the prior Disney live-action fairy tales had mostly smaller Wednesday declines (between 15% and 27%), The Jungle Book dropped 34% on its first Wednesday. Anything resembling legs like The Jungle Book (which debuted with around 59% of Beauty's Fri-Sun opening) is cause for celebration. Oh, and it has now today surpass the entire lifetime gross ($218.9m) of the 1991 animated Beauty and the Beast. That gives the film a whopping $461.9m worldwide cume, making it already the biggest domestic live-action musical of all time (suck it, Grease!)

Source: Forbes March 23, 2017 16:07 UTC