WOW!!!
We knew a few days ago that Beauty and the Beast might be a big deal this opening weekend, but THIS big?! This overshot a lot of people's expectations and it's turned out to be a HUGE opener for the wonderful remake!!
According to the box office numbers coming in now on Sunday afternoon, Beauty and the Beast opened to an incredible $170 million in North America, taken in from 4,210 theaters across the box office!
Add in another $180 million abroad, and that total — an incredible global sum of $350 million — is HUGE!!!
That's right — last year's Finding Dory was massive domestically ($135 million) as the previous champ, and yet Beauty and the Beast blew it out of the water.
And last year's Batman v. Superman: Dawn of Justice was massive, too, at $166 million, but Beauty and the Beast ran right past it this year to bring home the March box office opening weekend record, too!
Again… WOW!!!
As of right now, the family-friendly movie is the seventh-biggest domestic opening for any film ever, although some studios are even putting their total domestic numbers as high as $174 million — which could up it in the list.
We'll know the final, official numbers on Monday.
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