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Beauty 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:
| # | Title | Distributor Name | Weekend Revenue | Cume Total | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Weekend Total | # of Locs | Loc Avg | ||||
| 1 | Beauty And The Beast | Disney | $170,000,000 | 4,210 | $40,380 | $170,000,000 |
| 2 | Kong: Skull Island | Warner Bros. | $28,850,000 | 3,846 | $7,501 | $110,125,294 |
| 3 | Logan | 20th Century Fox | $17,500,000 | 3,687 | $4,746 | $184,026,885 |
| 4 | Get Out | Universal | $13,249,475 | 2,979 | $4,448 | $133,117,620 |
| 5 | Shack, The | Lionsgate | $6,130,000 | 2,825 | $2,170 | $42,614,630 |
| 6 | Lego Batman Movie, The | Warner Bros. | $4,700,000 | 2,735 | $1,718 | $167,423,352 |
| 7 | Belko Experiment, The | OTL Releasing | $4,070,000 | 1,341 | $3,035 | $4,070,000 |
| 8 | Hidden Figures | 20th Century Fox | $1,500,000 | 1,162 | $1,291 | $165,559,069 |
| 9 | John Wick: Chapter Two | Lionsgate | $1,200,000 | 1,065 | $1,127 | $89,790,804 |
| 10 | Before I Fall | Open Road | $1,034,425 | 1,551 | $667 | $11,295,102 |
| 11 | Lion | The Weinstein Company | $784,000 | 621 | $1,262 | $50,050,614 |
| 12 | La La Land | Lionsgate | $530,000 | 585 | $906 | $149,764,184 |
