No other company can match the streak that Disney is currently enjoying, thanks to a series of multi-billion acquisitions that put the likes of Pixar, Marvel, and LucasFilms in its Magic Kingdom.
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Beauty and the Beast represents another part of Disney's branded strategy. It's the latest fairy tale adaptation to hit screens. Others in the lucrative group include Alice in Wonderland, which picked up $1 billion worldwide, Cinderella with its $543.5 million global haul, and last year's The Jungle Book, which racked up a mighty $966.6 million after finishing its run.
Most major studios steered clear of Beauty and the Beast.
While Beauty and the Beast dominated ticket sales, last weekend's champ, Kong: Skull Island, fell 53% to $28.8 million. That pushes the monster movie's domestic haul to $110.1 million. Warner Bros and Legendary Entertainment teamed up to produce the remake of King Kong.
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Fox's Logan took third place, pulling in $17.5 million and bringing the R-rated superhero tale's stateside total to $184 million. Universal and Blumhouse's Get Out, a thriller about a black man whose girlfriend's white family holds a sinister secret, nabbed fourth position.
It made $13.2 million, bringing its gross to $133.1 million. With a budget of $4.5 million, the film is one of the year's most profitable. Lionsgate's The Shack rounded out the top five generating $6.1 million and pushing the faith-based drama's earnings to over $42.6 million.
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