80. In the original, the villagers flee after being scared by Chef Bouche while in the remake, it is Lumière who scares them off. The King was also recast to Tom Turner, although Harriet Jones was still the Queen, albeit with dark hair. Belle is shown reading a book to a young girl. The script was rewritten by Stephen Chbosky. The Beast then dies as the last petal falls and the servants become inanimate objects. [167] It climbed to $18.5 million on Saturday (102,700 showings) for a three-day total of $42.6 million, securing 60% of the total marketplace. It zips from one number to another, throwing a ton of frenetically edited eye candy at the screen, charmlessly. An enchantress disguised as an old beggar woman arrives at a castle during a ball and offers the host, a cruel and selfish prince, a rose in return for shelter from a storm. A live-action Beauty and the Beast remake was first announced in April 2014, with Condon hired to direct it; Watson, Stevens, Evans, and the rest of the cast signed on between January and April 2015. [154] This included the second-biggest Saturday ever (£7.9 million), only behind Star Wars: The Force Awakens. [81] Disney released the final trailer on January 30, 2017. In the live-action film, it is because he mistakes Mrs. Potts for Chip's grandmother, while in the animated film, it starts when he picks up Lumière, who then orders the other servants to attack. 2014 112m Movie. This was followed by the biggest March and pre-summer Tuesday with $17.8 million, a +32% increase from its previous day. The villagers do not use a tree to break open the castle doors; instead, they try to force it open. [116][117] It was also the biggest opening day ever for a film that wasn't PG-13, displacing the $58 million opening Wednesday of Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince. Read full review. Chip takes part in the battle by throwing saucers at the villagers. [74] On November 2, 2016, Entertainment Weekly debuted the first official image on the cover of their magazine, along with nine new photos. The finale contains an Indian-style setpiece and a brief musical tone which features an Indian number, in homage to the musical film. Special Features. Enchanted Christmas: Stories • As Long As There's Christmas • Don't Fall in Love • A Cut Above the Rest Also, he is Garderobe and Cadenza's pet dog instead of just being the palace dog. She casts a spell on the rose and warns the prince that if he can learn to love another and be loved in return before the last petal falls, the spell will be broken. Otherwise, he will be doomed to remain a beast for the remainder of his days. 129 minutes Early tracking had the film grossing around $100 million in its opening weekend, with some publications predicting it could reach $130 million. March 17, 2017 Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides, https://disney.fandom.com/wiki/Beauty_and_the_Beast_(2017_film)?oldid=4494892, Adam Mitchell (miscredited in the cast list as Rudi Goodman) as young Prince, Rita Davies as the Enchantress disguised as an old woman, Jimmy Johnston, Dean Street, and Alexis Loizon as, Sophie Reid, Rafaëlle Cohen, and Carla Nella as the, Tom Turner (miscredited in the cast list as, Unlike the animated film, the Prince is already a grown-up when he is cursed. The key piece from Disney's "Beauty and the Beast", "Tale as Old as Time" is deceptively low and quite tricky to play, so makes a great practice piece for intermediates.On the flute / piccolo / recorder, I found it most comfortable to play this shifted up +7 semitones, so the note range is D-^G :) In the remake, she does it alone, but from a chandelier. (1969) with a budget of $25 million ($165 million in 2016 dollars) cost more. The Beast shows Belle a gift from the enchantress, a book that transports readers wherever they want. The release date was strategically chosen to coincide with the White Day. "[33] The film's ending originally featured Gaston being cursed by the Enchantress, though the idea was scrapped. [200] Mark Hughes of Forbes also praised the film, which he wrote "could revive the story in a faithful but entirely new and unique way elevating the material beyond expectations, establishing itself as a cinematic equal to the original”. During the battle with the villagers, Cogsworth is cornered by Tom, Dick, and Stanley and Garderobe saves him by dressing them as women. [47], The Beast was portrayed with a "more traditional motion capture puppeteering for the body and the physical orientation", where actor Dan Stevens was "in a forty-pound gray suit on stilts for much of the film". where she encounters the wolf pack that chased Maurice earlier. 1. He is also known for being a former soldier, an army captain, who had once fought off Portuguese marauders (according to Luke Evans in an interview) and saved the village during the war, rather than as just a local hero, hunter and tavern owner. In the remake, when Chip tells Mrs. Potts about Belle's arrival, she already knew about it. ", A. O. Scott of The New York Times praised the performances of both Watson and Stevens and wrote: "It looks good, moves gracefully, and leaves a clean and invigorating aftertaste. Instead, it is the Enchantress, under the guise of Agathe. Before "Be Our Guest", Cogsworth doesn't get knocked into a bowl of pudding. ", "The 'Beauty and the Beast' Relationship Isn't "Stockholm Syndrome," No Matter How Screwed Up It May Be", "Is Beauty and the Beast "a tale as old as Stockholm syndrome"? On Monday, its fourth day of release, the film fell precipitously by 72% earning $13.5 million. Gaston then falls to his death as a result of the stone bridge that he is standing on crumbling beneath him. Editor(s) When Maurice's horse returns without him, Belle ventures out in search of him, and finds him locked in the castle dungeon. This also happened twice in, Gaston's red vest is lined with a yellow and red checkered fabric, the same pattern used for. In the original film, it was heavily implied they were waitresses to Gaston's tavern. [29] Two months later, Bill Condon signed on to direct the film from a script by Evan Spiliotopoulos. In the original film, Lumière and Cogsworth lead Belle to where Maurice is. The numbers were considered more impressive given that the film played during a school week. Belle's backstory is elaborated on in this film, where it is revealed that the reason why Belle and Maurice moved to the village in the first place was that they were trying to escape a plague in. [148][149], In the United Kingdom and Ireland, the film recorded the biggest opening ever for a PG-rated film, the biggest Disney live-action opening of all time, the biggest March opening weekend, the biggest opening for a musical (ahead of 2012's Les Misérables), the number one opening of 2017 to date and the fifth-biggest-ever overall with £19.7 million ($24.5 million) from 639 theatres and almost twice that of The Jungle Book (£9.9 million). In IMAX, it made a recorded the biggest debut for a PG title with $8.5 million from 649 screens, the second biggest for a PG title behind The Jungle Book. Belle is an inventor instead. The film received four nominations at the 23rd Critics' Choice Awards and two nominations at the 71st British Academy Film Awards. [188] Owen Gleiberman of Variety, in his positive review of the film, wrote: "It's a lovingly crafted movie, and in many ways a good one, but before that it's an enraptured piece of old-is-new nostalgia." She constantly brushes off advances from Gaston, an arrogant former soldier as he is not the type of man Belle wishes to marry. Beauty and the Beast is the 300th digitally remastered release in IMAX company's history which began with the re-release of Apollo 13 in 2002. 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Realizing that Belle loves the Beast, a jealous Gaston claims she has been charmed by dark magic and has her thrown into the asylum carriage with her father. [131] As a result, it passed the $300 million threshold becoming the first film of 2017 the pass said mark. In the animated film, the Enchantress only made a brief appearance in the prologue but is never seen afterward. It's a little bit harder. A young prince, imprisoned in the form of a beast, can be freed only by true love. [267] Additionally, Anna Menta of Elite Daily argued that the Beast does not apologize to Belle for imprisoning, hurting, or manipulating her, and that his treatment of Belle is not painted as wrong. Meanwhile, Maurice returns to Villeneuve, but is unable to convince the townspeople to rescue Belle. • Mickey's Rainy Day Express • Move It! 70% of the total ticket sales came from 2D showings signifying that people who don't go to theaters frequently came out in bulk to watch the film. Unlike the animated film, when Belle doesn't find out about the spell until the very end, she is told of it by the servants during her stay at the castle, though they don't tell her how it can be broken when she asks them. Sing Me a Story with Belle: Harmony • Big Book • Lewis and Carol When Maurice approaches the castle gates, it opens and closes by itself; in the animated version, Maurice opens it himself and then closes it to stop the pursuing wolves from attacking him. 25 Fun Facts About Beauty and the Beast; Beauty and the Beast Sneak Peek; Plus with your Digital Copy: Work-In-Progress / PIP Version; Hours of Classic Bonus ; DVD. It was also the biggest opening day ever for a film that wasn't PG-13, displacing the $58 million opening Wednesday of Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince. Beauty and the Beast is a 2017 American musical romantic fantasy film directed by Bill Condon from a screenplay by Stephen Chbosky and Evan Spiliotopoulos.Co-produced by Walt Disney Pictures and Mandeville Films, the film is a live-action adaptation of Disney's 1991 animated film of the same name, itself an adaptation of Jeanne-Marie Leprince de Beaumont's 1756 version of the fairy tale. He rallies the villagers to follow him to the castle to slay the Beast before he curses the whole village. Beauty and the Beast. In the remake, Belle doesn't do that at all and the Beast was able to successfully throw his snowball at her. Take that vision, put it into a new medium, make it a radical reinvention, something not just for the stage because it's not just being literal, now other elements come into play. Belle arrives at the castle during the day instead of at night. [272] Luke Evans and Josh Gad will reprise their roles from the film, and will executive-produce the series alongside Eddy Kitsis and Adam Horowitz, with Gad, Kitsis and Horowitz serving as showrunners and writers for the series. Unlike the animated film, the Enchantress gave the Beast not only the enchanted rose and the mirror but also a book that enables him to transport to a particular place. An unexpected romance blooms after the the youngest daughter of a merchant who has fallen on hard times offers herself to the mysterious beast to which her father has become indebted. Official website [40] Paige O'Hara, who voiced Belle in the original animated film and its sequels, offered to help Watson with her singing lessons. According to Stevens, young Willow was very excited when told that Emma Watson would be coming to a home dinner at the invitation of Stevens. 2. [105] Deadline Hollywood calculated the net profit of the film to be $414.7 million, when factoring together all expenses and revenues, making it the second-most profitable release of 2017. When attempting to touch the rose, Belle does not remove its glass case. Emma Watson revealed that she wanted to play Belle instead of Cinderella, explaining that her personality associated much more with the former than the latter. Some years later, in the small town of Villeneuve, Belle, the book-loving daughter of a widowed inventor named Maurice, dreams of adventure. 2017. The monster statues and moving suits of armor found in the castle hallways do not appear in the remake. Meanwhile, he attacks the Beast in his tower, who is too depressed to fight back, but regains his spirit upon seeing Belle return. [201], Several critics regarded the film as inferior to its 1991 animated predecessor. She became the first woman to write an animated feature for Disney by writing the screenplay of Beauty and the Beast, the first animated film ever to be nominated for Best Picture at the 64th Academy Awards. The Beast does not release Belle from the dungeon nor does he bring her to her bedroom. Entertainment: A Table is Waiting • Beauty and the Beast Live on Stage • Cinderella's Surprise Celebration • Cinderellabration: Lights of Romance • Disney's Believe • Disney Dreams: An Enchanted Classic • Enchanted Tales with Belle • Fantasmic! "[184] On Metacritic, the film has a score of 65 out of 100, based on 47 critics, indicating "generally favorable reviews". They invite her to a spectacular dinner. The castle's library is smaller than its animated counterpart. It earned $228.6 million in the first week of release, the sixth-biggest seven-day gross of all time. Shops: Bonjour! [206] Dana Schwartz of The New York Observer felt that some of the characters, such as Gaston and the Beast, had been watered down from the 1991 film, and that the additional backstory elements failed to "advance the plot or theme in any meaningful way" while adding considerable bloat. The film was released by Walt Disney Studios Home Entertainment on Blu-ray, DVD, and Digital HD on June 6, 2017. Spring: Disney Color-Fest: A Street Party! Belle tricks her father and the Beast by asking for a simple hug goodbye from her father, she pushes him out and locks herself in the dungeon. [54][55][56][57], The 2017 film features a remake of the 1991 original song recorded as a duet by Ariana Grande and John Legend. Fifi is renamed Plumette in the 2017 film. Six days later, it was announced that the film had officially wrapped up production. It surpassed the entire lifetime total of the original film in just six days and made a quarter of a billion dollars in just nine days. We realized there was a competitive advantage in the songs. 1946 96m Movie. The remake also expands a bit on the Beast's backstory prior to the curse. Beauty and the Beast . Also, Josh Groban was announced to be performing the new original song "Evermore" six days later. [257], The film also received criticism over its portrayal of LeFou, as many felt that it was used as a way of teasing LGBT+ viewers without providing adequate representation, with his "exclusively gay moment" being his three seconds' dancing with another man at the end of the film. 1 on the NPD VideoScan overall disc sales chart, with all other titles in the top 20, collectively, selling only 40% as many units as Beauty and the Beast. Largely because of this change, Philippe does not actually flee until after Beast tries to chase after Maurice for the theft. When the Beast tries to get Belle to eat dinner with her, she is seen trying to escape through the bedroom window down a rope made of clothes. It added major markets like France and Australia. They are all dancing away in the hope of winning the Prince's love and admiration as Madame de Garderobe sings. In fact, Frank Rich described it as the best Broadway musical of 1991. [197] Stephanie Zacharek of Time magazine gave a positive review with a description as "Wild, Vivid and Crazy-Beautiful" as she wrote "Nearly everything about Beauty and the Beast is larger than life, to the point that watching it can be a little overwhelming." "), Madame de Garderobe (who sings during the ball), and Mrs. Potts (who calls out for her son Chip after the Enchantress reveals her true form to the Prince and his astonished guests flee the scene in terror). The production cultivated a total of 1500 "enchanted" roses for the movie. [77] On November 14, 2016, the first theatrical trailer was released, again on Good Morning America. Condon also added that Beauty and the Beast features much more diversity than just the highly talked-about LeFou: "That was so important. Maurice is rescued by the town hermit Agathe, but when he tells the townsfolk of Gaston's crime and is unable to provide solid evidence, Gaston convinces them to send Maurice to an insane asylum. [249] Additionally, a theater in Henagar, Alabama did not screen the film because of the subplot. In Europe alone, the cumulative total is $267 million to become the second-highest-grossing film in the past year (behind Rogue One: A Star Wars Story). [83], Beauty and the Beast was released on Blu-ray, DVD, and Digital HD on June 6, 2017. to become the biggest musical production ever there.