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Wkd BO 03•24-26•17 - Beasteality reigns, wee Life for "Teenagers" with attitude @ BO

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71% Beauty and the Beast (2017)
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46% Power Rangers (2017)
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78% Kong: Skull Island
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64% Life (2017)
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92% Logan
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20% CHiPs
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‘Beauty and the Beast' Dazzles Again, ‘Power Rangers' Off to Solid Start

Disney's second weekend of blockbuster ”Beauty and the Beast" is dominating moviegoing in North America with $88.3 million at 4,210 locations — capping the best March ever.

Lionsgate's rebooted ”Power Rangers" is launching with a solid $40.5 million this weekend while Sony's space-thriller ”Life" showed only moderate traction with $12.6 million. Warner Bros.' action-comedy ”Chips" opened with a disappointing $7.6 million at 2,464 sites.

The ”Beauty and the Beast" weekend is one for the record books as the fourth-largest second weekend of all time, trailing only ”Star Wars: The Force Awakens" at $149 million, ”Jurassic World" at $106 million, and ”Marvel's The Avengers" at $103 million.

”Beauty and the Beast," starring Emma Watson as Belle and Dan Stevens as the Beast, declined just 49% from its opening weekend, which was the seventh-best ever. And after just 10 days in North American theaters, ”Beauty and the Beast" is already 55th on the all-time domestic list at $317 million. It's the fourth-largest 10-day domestic total ever.

”Beauty and the Beast," along with Fox's ”Logan," Warner's ”Kong: Skull Island," and Universal's ”Get Out," have led a charge over the past month that has given the domestic box office a major boost. According to comScore, March box office has already hit $1 billion for the first time — with five days left in the month.

”March has become a rockstar of a month and in particular 2017 enjoyed a perfect storm of new hits and strong February releases that showed amazing staying power like ‘Get Out' and ‘The Lego Batman Movie,' " said Paul Dergarabedian, senior media analyst with comScore. ”The cumulative allure of an impressive slate of films conjured up a flat out great month in theaters, generating impressive momentum as the industry charges into what promises to be a furious April and a smashing summer movie season that kicks off in May with ‘Guardians of the Galaxy 2.' "

Last year's March set a record with $948.8 million domestically, led by Disney's ”Zootopia" ($255.9 million for the month) and Warner Bros.' ”Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice" ($209.1 million).

”Power Rangers," a re-imagining of the 1990's television show about five teenage superheroes, outperformed expectations of about $30 million at 3,693 locations. The film earned an A CinemaScore from customers and A+ from the 30% of moviegoers under 18. The audience was 60% male.

The cast features Becky G as the Yellow Ranger, Ludi Lin as the Black Ranger, Naomi Scott as the Pink Ranger, Dacre Montgomery as the Red Ranger, and R.J. Cyler as the Blue Ranger. Elizabeth Banks plays the evil alien witch Rita Repulsa.

The movie centers on the origins of the Mighty Morphin Power Rangers, a group of high schoolers given extraterrestrial powers who unite to save the world. Lionsgate and Haim Saban announced plans in 2014 for a live-action movie based on Saban's ”Power Rangers" property as the first film in a franchise; Lionsgate CEO Jon Feltheimer has asserted that it may do as many as seven films. ”Power Rangers" carries a $100 million price tag.

David Spitz, Lionsgate's domestic theatrical distribution president, noted that the movie showed strong traction amid all demographics — even with ”Beauty and the Beast" remaining a potent draw. ”We always thought the two films could be complementary to each other," he added. Spitz also noted that ”Power Rangers" debuted in the same late March slot as the studio's ”Hunger Games" and ”Divergent," enabling it to take advantage of the spring break for moviegoers.

The third weekend of Warner-Legendary's ”Kong: Skull Island" was headed for third place with $14.4 million at 3,666 locations, which gives the giant ape a domestic total of $133.5 million in its first 17 days.

Sony-Skydance's ”Life" stars Rebecca Ferguson, Ryan Reynolds, and Jake Gyllenhaal as International Space Station astronauts threatened by an extraterrestrial life form. It's performing at the lower end of expectations in third place, despite generating mostly positive reviews with a 67% ”fresh" rating on Rotten Tomatoes.

The fourth weekend of Fox's ”Logan" followed in fourth with $10.1 million at 3,687 sites. ”Logan" is 2017's second highest grosser with $201.5 million in Hugh Jackman's farewell to the Wolverine character.

Universal-Blumhouse's fifth weekend of surprise hit ”Get Out" finished fifth with $8.7 million at 2,474 locations. The horror-comedy, Jordan Peele's directorial debut, has become enormously profitable, given its $4.5 million budget.

Warner Bros. rolled out action-comedy ”Chips," starring Dax Shepard and Michael Pena, amid muted expectations. The R-rated reboot of the TV series, which starred Erik Estrada and Larry Wilcox, has not gained much critical traction with a 20% rating on Rotten Tomatoes, but the budget is a relatively modest $25 million.
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Beauty and the Beast is on course to at least double the inflation-adjusted domestic gross of the original film, which is kind of amazing.

Power Rangers was way better than it had any right to be. I hope they do make a sequel.
 
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Prompto

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Ghost in the Shell is fucked next week isn't it? That's a lot of competition. Who thought it was a good idea to release it at the end of such a stacked month?
 
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MIMIC

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"Life" looks like a half-baked attempt to capitalize on the recent sci-fi/space movie popularity (The Martian, Gravity, Arrival, etc).

No sale.
 
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Prompto said:
Ghost in the Shell is fucked next week isn't it? That's a lot of competition. Who thought it was a good idea to release it at the end of such a stacked month?
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The best part is that it gets much worse for it right after with The Fate of Furious opening two weeks later, making the legs situation a non-factor for GITS. Paramount really makes it hard to like them for their prestige choices when they are so, so bad at the tentpole game.
 
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Slayven

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Lets dispel the myth that Ryan Reynolds is a leading man or a box office draw. That Deadpool train best be long for his sake
 
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kswiston

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Worldwide Updates:

Beauty and the Beast - $690M
Kong: Skull Island - $392M
Power Rangers - $59M
Split - $265M
Get Out - $155M
 
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Sulik2

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Disney understands the global box office better than any movie studio ever has in history. Its bunkers what their movie studios are producing these days.
 
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BronsonLee

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Sulik2 said:
Disney understands the global box office better than any movie studio ever has in history. Its bunkers what their movie studios are producing these days.
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I'm...not so sure about the 'global' part

They keep fanning in China

Swiss, got an idea of where Kong will end up?
 
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Kusagari

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BronsonLee said:
XXX did super well too which goddamnit I called

Disney isn't going all in on China yet but they've got it in mind
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Resident Evil did as well.

Might be better for Disney that they don't go all in on appealing to the Warcraft, Resident Evil, Vin Diesel lovers.
 
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Kusagari said:
Resident Evil did as well.

Might be better for Disney that they don't go all in on appealing to the Warcraft, Resident Evil, Vin Diesel lovers.
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What's wrong with loving Vin Diesel you son of a bitch

It's mostly because those movies are co-produced/have heavy China ties

In the case of XXX, it is also incredibly diverse in terms of its' main cast which probably helped quite a bit
 
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youngplaya21 said:
Can confirm: he definitely isn't the lead
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Didn't see the movie, but if the trailer I saw on Friday is anything to go by, I can see why he's not the lead.

I'm almost willing to bet that
he didn't make it to the end of the movie and probably had less than 20 minutes screen time.
 
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