Beauty & The Beast broke records with a $170m opening weekend in the US

Disney are definitely thanking so many of us for being their guests this weekend...

The $160 million live-action adaptation of Beauty & The Beast just opened to $170 million in the U.S. alone, with an additional $180 million worldwide, which means there have been a lot of broken records. First up, those numbers make it the biggest opening weekend for a PG movie, both in America - where the previous record holder was Finding Dory with $135 million - and internationally. It also beat the opening weekend numbers of last year's Batman V Superman: Dawn Of Justice, which banked $166 million in the first three days, to become the biggest opening weekend ever in March. The $170 million makes it the seventh biggest weekend of all time, and the second biggest not to be released in summer, in both cases the top entry is Star Wars: The Force Awakens' $248 million opening. So what does all that mean? Probably that we should get used to seeing a lot more live-action fairy-tale adaptations in the next few years... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OvW_L8sTu5E Clip via Disney