If the latter is true, it doesn’t really matter because any way you slice it, Beauty is bound to be profitable. Beauty reportedly cost $160M, but others have told us it’s substantially higher by as much as +40%. At the latter level, that would make Beauty and the Beast the sixth-highest grossing domestic title of all-time above 2008’s The Dark Knight ($533M) and last year’s Rogue One: A Star Wars Story ($530.7M). While there’s a lot of competition ahead, Beauty‘s biggest threat from a four-quad standpoint doesn’t arrive until April 14 when The Fate of the Furious opens. Given the great reviews and A CinemaScore response, the notion is that Beauty and the Beast will make $475M on the low end, and as high as $555M. How much longer does this box office dance last for Beauty and the Beast stateside?Ĭompared to other films that have opened in this $170M-plus threshold, they have typically ended their domestic runs between a 2.4 and 3.8 multiple. According to ComScore, this year’s total ticket sales currently stand at $2.5 billion, a solid 6% ahead of 2016 for the period of Jan. That’s further proof that economically-budgeted theatrical releases, when properly positioned in the market, aren’t necessarily immediate destinations for the small screen.Īnd a big film like Beauty only serves as an advertisement for the entire theatrical business with studios climbing over each other to trailer on a pic of this magnitude. Only four cost over $80M, while the majority of those moneymakers carried low-to-mid budgets. 'Beauty And The Beast' Greets $11.5M Worth Of Guests In Offshore Thursday BowĪnd the supply of high-grossing titles this year isn’t solely comprised of event films.