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Box Office: ‘Beauty and the Beast’ Waltzing to Huge $170M-Plus Bow

Box Office: ‘Beauty and the Beast’ Waltzing to Huge $170M-Plus Bow:

From the HR dispatch:

The Disney live-action fairy tale — earning a record $63.8 million on Friday — is on its way to landing one of the top 10 openings of all time and the biggest ever for a PG title.
Director Bill Condon’s Beauty and the Beast is doing monstrous business at the North American box office, waltzing to $63.8 million on Friday for a projected record-breaking weekend north of $170 million in another huge win for Disney’s growing stable of live-action fairy tale movies.

‘Lego Batman’ Hooks $54M+, ‘Fifty Shades’ Rachets Up $48M+, ‘John Wick 2’ Targets $29M+ – Saturday Update

‘Lego Batman’ Hooks $54M+, ‘Fifty Shades’ Rachets Up $48M+, ‘John Wick 2’ Targets $29M+ – Saturday Update:

The box office war got cold this weekend.. initial Friday interest among kids went to BATMAN LEGO.. the adults took over the box office by Saturday night.. 

What results: 50 shades less than $50 million and the super hero in lego form strong with near $55 and really good reviews on various websites where such reviews are done..

Not a reason for the season

This is no way is meant to be an insult of BOO! A MADEA HALLOWEEN.

But its victory at the Halloween weekend box office clearly showcases a vacuum of scary at this week’s box office – a week that should be housing horror films and festivals of darkness. It’s Halloween weekend for God’s sake..

The film is in its second week.. it dropped more than 40% from the opening.. but it still ended up in first place with $16 mil..

INFERNO fell short of all expectations this weekend.. Tom Hanks flopped..  $15 mil for over 3,500 theaters!

But BOO! A MADEA HALLOWEEN? Number 1? And with an awfully low count in dollars.

Why did the big studios lump all the horror flicks into the spring and summer? This season could have used some scary movies. Instead people were stuck NETFLIXING old ones or finding the hits from yesterday in the DVD five buck bin at Walmart.

This should have been a big weekend for something.
Sadly we were offered nothing.