Emma Watson in Beauty and the Beast - Part 2

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This will possibly break the March OW record currently held by BvS. 170-175 million seems doable.
 
So far im disapointed with the look of Mrs. Potts, the candle, and the Beast himself. I wish they had mad them look more simmilar to how they originally looked.
 
Beasts look from what I've seen doesn't do much for me. I really like his design in the original.
 
I actually like the designs in the movie. I think the problem that this film has is that it too closely tries to imitate the original, unlike Cinderella 2015, that seemed to carve out it's own place and was received very well critically. But this is going to make alot more money than that one did, so I suppose Disney doesn't care. I do think Cinderella 2015 is a better film than this one overall. It wasn't bad, but not great. I also found Emma Watson pretty underwhelming.
 
It's an enjoyable film. There are enough changes and differences here to set it apart from it being a whole shot-for-shot remake, and the songs play much better in context.

I actually liked Belle's extended backstory and that the enchantress plays a more active role in the film here.

It still doesn't hold a candle to the original film, but it's respectful nonetheless. Most fans should enjoy it.
 
I enjoyed it quite a bit. I laughed a ton and had a great time watching it.
 
Disney’s new Beauty and the Beast is like going back to your favorite college bar, after a 10 year absence. They still play some of your favorite songs on the jukebox, and you feel a spark of excitement when you walk in the door. You notice that the bar has been remodeled with a shiny new sign out front and given a modern update, with some very minor changes without any real purpose. All of your favorite bar buddies are gone, except for the guy playing the same songs on the jukebox and it’s mostly filled with new people. The new people aren’t bad or anything, some of them are actually quite fun to be around, but you really miss the original crew that made the bar such a special place. You feel a sense of nostalgia is in the air, but by the end of the night you end up feeling empty and sad, and instead of fighting it and trying to figure out why it doesn’t feel the same, you end up going home, looking at pictures and thinking about all of the great memories you had 20 years before. The bar’s just not the same anymore, and it’s not any better either.

6/10
 
I thought it was a beautiful adaptation. The songs were so well done, all the actors nailed their bits and the visuals were absolutely stunning. It was a worthy companion to the animated film and a new classic. 9/10 for me. What Josh Gad did with Lafou in some ways was one of the highlights of the film. But Luke Evans especially really surprised me, he was very menacing while still being the buffoon narcissist that you expect.
 
And so it begins:

http://deadline.com/2017/03/beauty-and-the-beast-weekend-box-office-selling-out-1202045224/

Disney’s Beauty and the Beast danced away with $16.3M in Thursday previews.

Yesterday, off early evening shows, industry forecasts estimated that previews would rake in between $12M-$14M. Two waves of previews occurred for Beauty and the Beast: At 6PM in Imax/3D/PLF which repped 41% of the night’s gross and at 7PM with regular 2D shows.

Beauty and the Beast‘s Thursday night is the biggest of the year, the biggest ever for a Disney Live Action title beating Cinderella‘s $2.3m and The Jungle Book‘s $4.2M, the second biggest ever for a PG film, and the third biggest ever in March after Batman v. Superman ($27.7M) and The Hunger Games ($19.7M). Beauty and the Beast even smokes Furious 7‘s Thursday night preview of $15.8M.

Audience scores were more than glowing for the Bill Condon-directed musical: Screen Engine/ComScore’s PostTrak shows that Thursday audiences gave Beauty and the Beast an 88% overall positive score with four-and-half stars. Close to 60% of the crowd was made up of females who gave it a 91% positive score with 53% under 25. Diving deeper into these numbers we see 68% were between 18-34, which means that Beauty and the Beast is stoking the generation who actually grew up with the original 1991 Oscar-winning movie. It’s a similar phenomenon we saw with the Finding Dory audience.

Seventy percent of last night’s crowd are definitely recommending Belle and Beast to their friends. Forty-six percent cited that the genre/type of movie was one of the reasons why they bought tickets, while 33% said the movie was part of a franchise they like.

A third of all moviegoers called out Emma Watson as the prime reason for attending. RelishMix reports that Watson is the film’s biggest social media activator with more than 83M followers across Instagram, Facebook and Twitter, and she’s continually sharing materials.

Moviegoers also cited what Beauty and the Beast marketing influenced them the most: 53% said it was the in-theater trailer, 48% were influenced by the TV ads, while 41% a piece mentioned the online trailer, and the word of mouth from their friends. Last night, Fandango reported that Beauty and the Beast was selling out all over the country.
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Interesting to see how much impact in theater trailers still have according to those audience polls.
 
Great number. I think it's going to break the March opening weekend record.
 
I am thinking more between 120m-140m right now myself. But I have no idea what the late night number means, because a movie like this has never done a number like that.
 
http://deadline.com/2017/03/beauty-and-the-beast-opening-international-box-office-1202045514/

Disney’s live-action Beauty And The Beast waltzed into its first suite of overseas markets on Thursday, setting the table with $11.5M. The Bill Condon-directed update on the 1991 animated classic was No. 1 in all 28 opening markets save Slovakia where it was the top non-local movie. Key plays cozying up to Emma Watson’s Belle on Thursday include Italy, Germany, Korea and Brazil. More join Disney’s guest list today, including China where early unofficial estimates have it at about $13M for the day.

Italy kicked of to $1M for the biggest March Thursday debut and biggest Disney Thursday debut ever. Germany scored $1.1M for 2nd best biggest opening day of 2017 and 2nd biggest March launch day of all time. Korea picked up $1.2M for the 3rd best Disney Live Action start ever, behind only Pirates 3 and 4. Brazil grossed $1.8M and is the top Disney Live Action opening day on record and the 2nd biggest opening day of 2017.

Other launches include Austria with the top March opening day ever; Denmark as Disney’ best March opening day; and Hong Kong and the Philippines with the No. 1 first day of 2017.

In China, we’re seeing estimates close on $13M for Friday. Despite some controversy surrounding the film in Russia and Malaysia over the “gay moment,” the Middle Kingdom’s People’s Daily official newspaper took pains to say local censors kept it in the film and offered no parental advisory.
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DaRkVeNgeanCe said:
Disney’s new Beauty and the Beast is like going back to your favorite college bar, after a 10 year absence. They still play some of your favorite songs on the jukebox, and you feel a spark of excitement when you walk in the door. You notice that the bar has been remodeled with a shiny new sign out front and given a modern update, with some very minor changes without any real purpose. All of your favorite bar buddies are gone, except for the guy playing the same songs on the jukebox and it’s mostly filled with new people. The new people aren’t bad or anything, some of them are actually quite fun to be around, but you really miss the original crew that made the bar such a special place. You feel a sense of nostalgia is in the air, but by the end of the night you end up feeling empty and sad, and instead of fighting it and trying to figure out why it doesn’t feel the same, you end up going home, looking at pictures and thinking about all of the great memories you had 20 years before. The bar’s just not the same anymore, and it’s not any better either.

6/10
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100% how I feel about it. I grew up with the animated film and I felt this film was pointless when I could pop in the animated film and watch the same exact movie.
 
DarthSkywalker said:
I am thinking more between 120m-140m right now myself. But I have no idea what the late night number means, because a movie like this has never done a number like that.
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I don't see it being as front-loaded as a comic book movie. I could be completely wrong but I just don't see it. I see it more like Jurassic world which turned an 18 million Midnight's into 200 million opening weekend. Not that I'm expecting 200mil because I'm not but I am expecting over 150mil.

120mil would be shockingly low to me considering the type of film it is. It's not a YA film or a comic book movie. I'm not saying that number won't happen I'm just saying that it would be surprising to me.
 
I thought $120M seemed high for a movie that looks so meh, then I remember Alice in Wonderland opened to about 210M. It can be done.

Also from Slash film - I expected this. (well, not the acting part, but the singing)
"While Emma Watson’s acting is lovely, her singing is autotuned to the point that you can hear the computer warbles in it. "

http://www.slashfilm.com/beauty-and-the-beast-review/
 
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Her singing sounded fine to me and I saw the film in Dolby Atmos. The singing in the film in general, was the least of its problems.
 
One question for those that have seen the film, does it have the scene where the beast hilariously gets worked up when he wants Belle to join him for dinner?
 
Best Buy will be doing a Beauty & The Beast steelbook if your into special packaging. http://www.bestbuy.com/site/beauty-...d-only--best-buy-2017/5806602.p?skuId=5806602

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I just got back. I am rather in love with this film.
 
I find these movies intriguing because of the nostalgia effect really. I never expect to see something ground breaking or original and I think that's for the best. I like the idea of turning an animated classic into live action for the same reason I like seeing live action comic book movies. You've seen/read some of these stories already but now you're just seeing it in live action which adds another dimension to the story. i guess a more fitting comparison would be to take an old hit song you like and listen to a cover that a more recent artist did, you probably will still like the old hit more but you are open to a new rendition of the song.
 
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