Weekend Box Office: 'Beauty' is a Beast
by EG
There was no doubt that Disney's Beauty and the Beast was going to be the number-one movie at the box office this week. The only questions were exactly which records the movie would break with its opening-weekend ticket sales.
The movie did definitely break some records with its $170-million first weekend. It became the biggest-opening PG-rated movie of all time, and by passing last year's $166-million opening of Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice, Beauty also became the biggest March movie of all time.
Outside of those records, however, Beauty is just big, not the biggest. Last year's Captain America: Civil War opened bigger with $177 million. Among all openings, Beauty sits in seventh place, far behind Star Wars Episode VII: The Force Awakens' $248 million and just a bit behind Iron Man 3.
Beauty certainly is ruling the spring of 2017, though. Last week's number-one movie, Kong: Skull Island, was barely visible in Beauty's rearview mirror with a weekend take of $28.9 million. Logan was even farther behind with $17.5 million, which is roughly one tenth Beauty's earnings for the weekend.
The top five was rounded out by holdovers Get Out and The Shack, which brought in a combined total of just short of $20 million.
The weej's only other new release, The Belko Experiment, landed in seventh place with $4 million.