Beauty and the Beast
Musical Disney PG 2h 3m Released Mar 17, 2017 Discussed 2023
Opening weekend
$174.8M
4,210 theaters
Per-theater average
$41,508
opening weekend
Domestic total
$504.0M
2.9× its opening
Worldwide total
$1.26B
40% domestic
Production budget
$160.0M
7.9× worldwide
RT critics
71%
RT audience
79%
+8 vs critics
Metacritic
65
Where it turns up
Friday, June 2, 2023 First weekend of June 2023
In the note
But then came Beauty and the Beast, and not only did the process improve (there were sequences that looked nothing like we’d ever seen before in an Animated film) but the storytelling was spectacular and audiences now expected a different look to animated films. A couple of years ago Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse opened to $35 million, which is pretty low for a top shelf IP like Spider-Man, even for an animated take.