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by Ashley Lee
A washing machine, a heartbroken harpsichord and a beastly ballad are among the small tweaks that make a big impact in the new Disney movie.
Disney's live-action Beauty and the Beast eatures just a little change from its 1991 animated classic.
"The most difficult part was both honoring the original animated film and also giving it its own identity," producer David Hoberman told The Hollywood Reporter. "But there's also a lot you can get away with in animation that you can't get away with in live-action."
Therefore, the new movie — starring Emma Watson, Dan Stevens, Josh Gad, Kevin Kline, Emma Thompson, Ian McKellen, Ewan McGregor, Gugu Mbatha-Raw, Audra McDonald and Stanley Tucci — introduces new characters, backstories, songs, motivations and even logistical details. Added producer Todd Lieberman: "Because there's so much emotion in the original movie, there's also a lot of room to explain where that emotion came from."
THR outlines the nine most notable plot differences between the two adaptations complete with each reason for tweaking a tale as old as time.
by Ryan Reed
by Peter Travers
Emma Watson, Dan Stevens and an army of all-star voices do justice to animated landmark – even if some magic is M.I.A.
The tale of a scary-looking dude who holds a girl hostage until she submits to him is usually the stuff of police reports. Or, of course, a Disney musical. Such is the case with Beauty and the Beast, director Bill Condon's live–action version of the 1991 classic and the first animated feature to win an Oscar nomination for Best Picture. Condon (Dreamgirls) knows how to lift heavy machinery without showing the sweat. And Emma Watson is just the Disney princess-in-distress to warm the heart of a hairy ape, or bison, or whatever kind of beast the stellar Dan Stevens is playing. Working from a busy script by Stephen Chbosky and Evan Spiliotopoulos, the director fills every frame of this way-too-long 129-minute bauble with rapid motion and ravishing romance. It looks the same, moves the same and sounds the same (those Alan Menken songs!) as the original. But some of the magic has gone M.I.A.
by Lindsey Bahr
LOS ANGELES — Not all reboots are created equal.
This weekend at the box office, nostalgia-driven fare was everywhere, producing both successful and underwhelming results.
On the high end, Disney's live-action Beauty and the Beast continued enchanting audiences in its second weekend in theaters, easily topping the charts with $88.3 million, according to studio estimates Sunday. On the low end, the raunchy, R-rated CHIPS made its debut in seventh place with $7.6 million.
by Scott Mendelson
Walt Disney's Beauty and the Beast scored $88.3 million on its second weekend of domestic release, bringing its 10-day total to $317m thus far. That's the fourth-biggest second weekend of all time, behind The Avengers ($103m), Jurassic World ($106m) and Star Wars: The Force Awakens ($149m). And its second-weekend drop of 49% is the fourth-smallest such plunge for any movie opening above $125m outside of The Force Awakens (-39% with the Christmas holiday), Finding Dory (-46%) and Jurassic World (-49%). The 10-day total is actually fourth of all time as well, behind The Avengers ($373m), Jurassic World ($402m) and The Force Awakens ($540m).