"[184] On Metacritic, the film has a score of 65 out of 100, based on 47 critics, indicating "generally favorable reviews". With Paige O'Hara, Robby Benson, Jesse Corti, Rex Everhart. A selfish Prince is cursed to become a monster for the rest of his life, unless he learns to fall in love with a beautiful young woman he keeps prisoner. [50] Menken said the film would not include songs that were written for the Broadway musical and, instead, created four new songs. In Ancient Polynesia, when a terrible curse incurred by the Demigod Maui reaches Moana's island, she answers the Ocean's call to seek out the Demigod to set things right. The movie was an awards push as the 2017–18 awards season heated up. In fact, Frank Rich described it as the best Broadway musical of 1991. Celine Dion and Peabo Bryson recorded it for the film's soundtrack. In Villeneuve, Maurice fails to convince the other villagers of the Beast and Belle's imprisonment. Weekend Estimates: Beauty and the Beast Beats Strong Power Rangers Start. The adventures of writer Newt Scamander in New York's secret community of witches and wizards seventy years before Harry Potter reads his book in school. “But I thought I might at least take Beauty her rose. A prince cursed to spend his days as a hideous monster sets out to regain his humanity by earning a young woman's love. Watch this in French please, better experience while watching this as it was meant to. A mermaid princess makes a Faustian bargain in an attempt to become human and win a prince's love. [177] In Europe alone, the cumulative total is $267 million, which led it to become the second-highest-grossing film in the past year (behind Rogue One: A Star Wars Story). It zips from one number to another, throwing a ton of frenetically edited eye candy at the screen, charmlessly." "[193] In her A- review, Nancy Churnin of The Dallas Morning News praised the film's emotional and thematic depth, remarking: "There's an emotional authenticity in director Bill Condon's live-action Beauty and the Beast film that helps you rediscover Disney's beloved 1991 animated film and 1994 stage show in fresh, stirring ways. [105] Deadline Hollywood calculated the net profit of the film to be $414.7 million, when factoring together all expenses and revenues, making it the second-most profitable release of 2017. [84] The film debuted at No. The film premiered at Spencer House in London on February 23, 2017, and was theatrically released in the United States in standard, Disney Digital 3-D, RealD 3D, IMAX, and IMAX 3D formats, along with Dolby Cinema on March 17, 2017. Created by Ron Koslow. Keep track of everything you watch; tell your friends. [170][171] The two-day gross was $9.7 million, outstripping Frozen's previous record of $9.5 million. [164], In China, expectations were high for the film. In the same newspaper, Wendy Ide criticized the film as "ornate to the point of desperation" in its attempt to emulate the animated film. [48], Condon initially prepared on only drawing inspiration from the original film, but he also planned to include most of the songs composed by Menken, Ashman and Tim Rice from the Broadway musical, with the intention of making the film as a "straight-forward, live-action, large-budget movie musical". [165] The original film was, however, never widely popular in the country. [125][126], On Monday, its fourth day of release, the film fell precipitously by 72% earning $13.5 million. Use the HTML below. Harriet Jones as The Queen, the prince's mother who died of an illness when he was a child. [28], By April 2014, Walt Disney Pictures had already begun developing a new live-action version of Beauty and the Beast after making other live-action fantasy films such as Alice in Wonderland, Maleficent, Cinderella, and The Jungle Book. Of those, approximately 1,200 cinemas were sing-along versions. 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Preliminary reports suggested that it could open to $40–60 million in its opening weekend. Nevertheless, it is the second-biggest March Monday, behind Batman v Superman ($15 million). Get a sneak peek of the new version of this page. The animated version was already darker and more modern than the previous Disney fairy-tales. You must be a registered user to use the IMDb rating plugin. My vote is seven.Title (Brazil): "A Bela e a Fera" ("The Beauty and the Beast"). The same day, the film passed $200 million in ticket sales. She constantly brushes off advances from Gaston, an arrogant former soldier as he is not the type of man Belle wishes to marry. Apart from the Disney version (of course), readers are most familiar with the shortened tale by Jeanne-Marie Leprince de Beaumont (1711 – 1780). [133] On April 4, 2017, its nineteenth day of release, it passed the $400 million threshold becoming the first film of 2017 to do so. Gaston, seeing rescuing Belle as an opportunity to win her hand in marriage, agrees to help Maurice. [100][101][102] It is currently the second-highest-grossing film of 2017 (behind Star Wars: The Last Jedi),[103] the highest-grossing March release,[104] the highest-grossing remake of all time,[105] and the sixth-biggest Disney film. Early tracking had the film grossing around $100 million in its opening weekend, with some publications predicting it could reach $130 million. We realized there was a competitive advantage in the songs. '"[32] Walt Disney Pictures President of Production Sean Bailey credited Walt Disney Studios chairman Alan F. Horn with the decision to make the film as a musical: "We worked on this for five or six years, and for 18 months to two years, Beauty was a serious dramatic project, and the scripts were written to reflect that. [270][271], On March 6, 2020, ABC Signature Studios announced to develop a spin-off/prequel limited series to the film focused on Gaston and LeFou, for Disney+. Beauty and the Beast had its world premiere at Spencer House in London on February 23, 2017. A spin-off/prequel television series, Little Town, is in development. [6][89] In just ten days, it became the highest-grossing live-action musical of all time, beating the nine-year-old record held by Mamma Mia!. [61], On March 16, 2015, Disney announced the film would be released in 3D on March 17, 2017. Beauty and the Beast (French: La Belle et la Bête) is a fairy tale written by French novelist Gabrielle-Suzanne Barbot de Villeneuve and published in 1740 in La Jeune Américaine et les contes marins (The Young American and Marine Tales). By comparison, previous Disney films Moana (−8%) and Frozen (−2%) both witnessed mild percentage declines the weekend their sing-alone versions were released. [8] It features an ensemble cast including Emma Watson and Dan Stevens as the eponymous characters, with Luke Evans, Kevin Kline, Josh Gad, Ewan McGregor, Stanley Tucci, Audra McDonald, Gugu Mbatha-Raw, Ian McKellen, and Emma Thompson in supporting roles.[9]. Best Live-Action Re-Imagined Disney Animated Classic? [268], Shortly after the release of the film, Sean Bailey said that Walt Disney Pictures will "explore possible [live-action] spin-off and prequel scenarios" for animated and live-action Disney films, including Beauty and the Beast. [151][179] In the Philippines, it emerged as the most successful commercial film of all time—both local and foreign—with over $13.5 million. Please watch this. A kind-hearted street urchin and a power-hungry Grand Vizier vie for a magic lamp that has the power to make their deepest wishes come true. 2. Title: [204][205], Chris Nashawaty of Entertainment Weekly gave the film a B-, writing that the new songs were "not transporting". Meanwhile, he attacks the Beast in his tower, who is too depressed to fight back, but regains his spirit upon seeing Belle return. Belle uses the book to visit her childhood home in Paris, where she discovers a plague doctor's mask and realizes that she and her father were forced to leave when her mother succumbed to the plague. The Most Popular Beauty and the Beast tale. ", "The 'Beauty and the Beast' Relationship Isn't "Stockholm Syndrome," No Matter How Screwed Up It May Be", "Is Beauty and the Beast "a tale as old as Stockholm syndrome"? How different is this version compared to the animated counterpart it's based on. The story starts with the beautiful, young girl who lived with her father (wealthy merchant), two sisters and brothers in a good, immensely rich surrounding. In the original version of the scene, it was Jones' character, the Prince's mother, who sings the first verse of the song, with Rudi Goodman playing the young Prince and Henry Garrett playing his father; but in the reshot version of the scene, the singing part is given to the Prince (now played by Adam Mitchell). (2017). Yet unlike those two stories, where the female protagonist instantly falls in love with her prince, in this tale the woman gets to know the male character first and develops a relationship with him before she falls in love. After the unfortunate turn of the events her father lost all of his money, so they were forced to move into a much smaller house in the countryside. It's a little bit harder. David Sims of The Atlantic wrote that the 2017 film "feels particularly egregious, in part, because it's so slavishly devoted to the original; every time it falls short of its predecessor (which is quite often), it's hard not to notice". "Beauty and the Beast" retells the Disney's version of the French fairy-tale written by Gabrielle-Suzanne Barbot de Villeneuve and published in 1740. [128] It earned $228.6 million in the first week of release, the sixth-biggest seven-day gross of all time. [123] According polling service PostTrak, about 84% of American parents who saw the film on its opening day said they would "definitely" recommend it for families. My interest was taking that film and doing it in this new medium—live-action—as a full-on musical movie. [188] Owen Gleiberman of Variety, in his positive review of the film, wrote: "It's a lovingly crafted movie, and in many ways a good one, but before that it's an enraptured piece of old-is-new nostalgia." As Belle tearfully professes her love to the Beast, Agathe reveals herself as the enchantress and undoes the curse, repairing the crumbling castle, restoring the Beast and his servants to their human forms and to the villagers' memories. 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