Disney’s live-action remake passes the $600 million global mark while “Power Rangers” leads new releases with $40 million bow

Disney’s “Beauty and the Beast” continued to charge towards the $1 billion mark in its second box office weekend, easily holding on to the No. 1 spot with an estimated $88 million to reach a global cume of $690 million after just ten days in theaters.

This makes “Beauty” the fourth straight Disney film to cross the $600 million global mark, following “Doctor Strange,” “Moana” and “Rogue One.” It also now ranks in the top 5 for ten-day box office totals and second weekend totals.“Beauty” staved off a cluster of new releases this weekend, including Lionsgate’s “Power Rangers,” which finished in a distant second but beat trackers’ expectation of $35 million to gross a solid $40.5 million domestically from 3,693 screens against a $105 million budget.

The blockbuster retelling of the battle between Rita Repulsa and Zordon’s “teenagers with attitude” got a mixed 44 percent by critics at Rotten Tomatoes, but received an A from CinemaScore surveys, with an A+ grade from 30 percent of moviegoers under 18. The film also received a boost from college-age moviegoers during the spring break season, as millennials who saw the Saturday morning TV series when it first premiered back in 1993 came to theaters for a dose of nostalgia.

Finishing third is Warner Bros.’s “Kong: Skull Island,” which made an estimated $14.4 million in its third weekend to bring its domestic cume to $133.5 million. Overseas, “Kong” enjoyed a strong opening in China this weekend, making an estimated $51.3 million on Friday and Saturday with $6.5 million coming from 387 IMAX screens. While the final weekend totals are still being estimated, China is likely to push “Kong” to $350 million global this weekend and $400 million in the days to come, which will surely please Lionsgate, as they build towards “Godzilla vs. King Kong”

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