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The Top Five Highest-Grossing Disney Classic Animation Remakes Of All Time

Boxoffice Staff — Thu, 22 May 2025 15:47:33 +0000

This Memorial Day weekend could be the top-grossing at the box office of all time, thanks in large part to a duo of high-powered blockbuster releases, one of which—Disney’s Lilo & Stitch—is on track to secure one of the highest, if not the highest, domestic opening weekend gross of 2025 so far, a title that […]

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Box Office Top 10: Live-Action Musicals of the 2000s

Rebecca Pahle — Fri, 26 Jun 2020 21:34:44 +0000

June would have—in a different world—seen the theatrical release of director Jon M. Chu’s In the Heights, based on the Tony-winning Broadway musical from future Hamilton creator Lin-Manuel Miranda. But we live in the times of Covid-19, when In the Heights has been pushed to next summer and a filmed version of Hamilton, originally bound […]

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Box Office Top 10: The Highest-Grossing Disney Remakes and Re-Imaginings

Boxoffice Staff — Wed, 17 Jun 2020 05:05:18 +0000

Ever since the 2010 release of Tim Burton’s Alice in Wonderland, Disney has made bank with shiny new versions of some of their animated classics. With one of those remakes, Niki Caro’s Mulan, serving as Disney’s first theatrical release after the Covid-shutdown, Boxoffice Pro looks back at the ten most successful examples of the mini-genre. […]

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Which Movies Have Spent the Longest in the Box Office Top Ten?

Boxoffice Staff — Mon, 25 May 2020 14:00:00 +0000

Once cinemas return nationwide, a combination of social distancing, enforced seating limits, and fewer films in release will likely result once again in lower openings paired with longer theatrical runs.

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Disney Posts 2nd-Best Global Box Office Year Ever with $6.45 Billion

Paulinev — Tue, 02 Jan 2018 22:16:47 +0000

Walt Disney Studios has ended 2017 on a high note. With $6.457 billion in global box office, the studio posted its second-best year in company history (after 2016) and crossed the $6 billion mark for the second year in a row. That number includes $2.410 billion in domestic earnings and $4.046 billion overseas. “From Disney […]

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Record Pace: Why 2017’s $11.5 Billion+ Potential Is the Industry’s Crucial Checkpoint

Boxoffice Staff — Thu, 04 May 2017 22:51:28 +0000

Note: The original version of this story appeared in the April 2017 issue of Boxoffice Magazine. CinemaCon 2017 is in the books, and as tradition would have it, attendees are officially resetting the countdown clock until the marquee confab’s return to Vegas in April 2018. But, for a third straight year, studios and exhibitors left home with […]

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Beauty and the Beast Crosses $1 Billion Worldwide

Daniel Loria — Thu, 13 Apr 2017 14:10:11 +0000

Disney’s Beauty and the Beast became the latest film to join the studio’s vaunted billion dollar club, hitting the milestone days into Q2 and becoming 2017’s highest-grossing film worldwide to date, highest grossing live-action movie musical of all time and a global phenomenon.

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Fandango: ‘Beauty and the Beast’ Becomes Company’s Top Family Pre-Seller of All Time

Boxoffice Staff — Tue, 14 Mar 2017 20:51:59 +0000

Their official press release: LOS ANGELES – MARCH 14, 2017 – Prior to its opening this Friday, Disney’s live-action “Beauty and the Beast” has already set a new record as Fandango’s #1 family pre-seller of all time, with “Beauty” pre-sales (through Monday night) already eclipsing total pre-sales for any other family film in Fandango’s 17-year […]

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A Tale as Old as Time: BEAUTY AND THE BEAST Producers Todd Lieberman and David Hoberman on Disney’s Latest Live-Action Fairy Tale

Boxoffice Staff — Tue, 14 Mar 2017 08:39:49 +0000

No one fights like Gaston, but no one produces like Todd Lieberman and David Hoberman. Partners in the production company Mandeville Films, which Hoberman founded in 1995, they have an exclusive first-look deal with Disney. Their new film is the highly anticipated Beauty and the Beast live-action remake starring Emma Watson. Hoberman and Lieberman spoke to […]

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RealD Joins Cinemark, Regal, and Marcus Theatres for Company’s Largest Ever Opening Night Promotional Program to Support 3D Presentation of Disney’s Fan Events for “Beauty And the Beast” on Thursday, March 16

Boxoffice Staff — Tue, 07 Mar 2017 16:25:53 +0000

PRESS RELEASE (Beverly Hills, March 7, 2017) — RealD, the world’s leading 3D cinema system provider, has joined with Regal, Cinemark, and Marcus Theaters for its largest ever promotional program to support the 3D presentation of Disney’s highly anticipated live action adaptation of “Beauty and the Beast.” As part of the special program in select […]

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March Madness: How March Became the New Summer at the Box Office

Boxoffice Staff — Fri, 03 Mar 2017 10:11:30 +0000

So far this century, March has come in like a lamb and gone out like a lion. Yet for decades, March releases always seemed to run up against an unofficial barrier at the box office. The last time the month’s films surpassed 9.5 percent of the year’s total box office was 1990. That was followed […]

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COMING SOON: ‘Beauty and the Beast,’ ‘Ghost in the Shell,’ ‘Pirates’ Sequel, and More!

Guillaume — Mon, 13 Feb 2017 20:58:12 +0000

We’ve got a long list of trailers for you this week on BoxOffice Trailer Throw Down! So many beasts, monsters, hostages, robots, witches, revenge stories, explosions, car wrecks, cannibals and also one about a pretty garden. BEAUTY AND THE BEAST Consider this a trigger warning. They sing the Beauty and the Beast song in this final trailer. I […]

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