Beauty and the Beast took the #1 spot at the box office by delivering a record-setting $170 million opening this weekend. In doing so, Disney’s live-action fairy tale earned the seventh-largest domestic opening of all-time and topped the previous March opening weekend record of $166 million set by Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice last year.

Weekend Box Office
(in estimated millions)

Beauty and the Beast – $170 million


Kong: Skull Island – $28.8

 
Logan – $17.5


Get Out – $13.2


The Shack – $6

 

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