Fast and Furious bumps Beauty and the Beast into second at weekend box office

Zoe Samios

April 18, 2017 4:48

Disney’s Beauty and the Beast has slipped into second place over the Easter long weekend box office, as Fast and Furious jumped into the top spot earning $10.072m.

The film has earned a total of $12.696m.

According to the Motion Picture Distributors Association of Australia, Beauty and the Beast collected $3.020m over the weekend across 449 screens, bringing its total local earnings to $40.352m.

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Zoe Samios

Zoe Samios worked at Mumbrella between 2016 and 2019, finishing up as senior media reporter in March 2019.

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Beauty and the Beast Ghost in the Shell Smurfs: The lost village The Boss Baby The Lego Batman Movie Weekend Box Office

1 COMMENTS

RussVB 18 Apr 17

A couple of notable marks for Beauty & The Beast —
highest ever total for a March release & soon to be
highest for a 1st quarter release.
Only 3 other Q1 releases have ever topped 30 million
and of those only last year’s Deadpool topped 40 .

Alice In Wonderland (Mar 2010) 37.562
The Hunger Games (Mar 2012) 31.178
Deadpool (Feb 2016) 43.266
Beauty And The Beast (Mar 2017) 40.353 +

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