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Live Action ‘Beauty And The Beast’ Animates Box Office

Beauty and the BeastBeauty and the Beast opened over the weekend to a monstrous $170 million from 4,210 theaters at the North American box office. Overseas, the female-fueled update of the classic 1991 animated musical also dazzled, earning $180 million for an elegant global bow of $350 million. Beauty set a number of new records, including the biggest start ever for a PG title, the top March opening of all time, the seventh-biggest domestic opening for any film, and the biggest outside of summer save for December 2015 bow of fellow Disney blockbuster Star Wars: The Force Awakens.

The top 12 films of the weekend, as of Sunday, March 19, are as follows: