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US Box Office Weekend 17th March 2017: Beauty and the Beast beats out Kong at the top

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Beauty and the Beast
Monsters of all various types have been in the order of the day in recent weeks, Logan then Jong last week and this week Disney bring us their live action retelling of Beauty and the Beast.

The Mouse House have done a fantastic job in recent years of bringing their animated classic to a live audience, Cinderella and The Jungle Book are two which did really well.

Now is the time of the greatest animation of all time to get a live action film and audiences are clearly wanting it as the film lands to an incredible $170 million opening weekend.

Kong in its second weekend fell to number 2 with a gross of $28.8 million, this brings the films total US box office to $110.1 million after 10 days of play.

Logan at 3 is now the highest grossing Wolverine movie is the US and with $184 million in total grosses could catch the lowest X-Men movies.

Also new this week is The Belko Experiment at number 7 with a debut gross os $4 million.

Longest running film on the top 10 is once again Hidden Figures which has now been around for 13 weeks, but Logan is now the highest total grossing movie.

This weeks top 10 US Box Office films

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