Beauty and the Beast (1991)

Beauty and the Beast

Domestic Total Gross: $145,863,363 Domestic Lifetime Gross: $218,967,620
Distributor: Buena Vista	Release Date: November 15, 1991
Genre: Animation	Runtime: 1 hrs. 24 min.
MPAA Rating: G	Production Budget: $25 million

Total Lifetime Grosses

Domestic:	$218,967,620	51.5%
+ Foreign:	$206,000,000	48.5%

= Worldwide:	$424,967,620

Domestic Summary

Release Dates:

November 15, 1991 (limited)
November 22, 1991 (wide)

Limited Opening Weekend:	$162,146
(2 theaters, $81,073 average)

Wide Opening Weekend:	$9,624,149
(#3 rank, 977 theaters, $9,850 average)
% of Total Gross:	6.6%
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Widest Release:

1,960 theaters

The Players

Writers:	Chris Sanders (story) Linda Woolverton
Producer:	Don Hahn
Composer:	Alan Menken

1991 Academy Awards®

Nominated for Six Oscars, Including Two Wins.
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Genres

Genre	Rank
Animation	23
Animation - Fantasy	7

Charts

Chart	Rank
All Time Domestic	128
All Time Adjusted	125
All Time Worldwide	199
Yearly 1991	3
Yearly G Rated 1991	1
Yearly Opening Weekends 1991	146
Worldwide Yearly 1991	3
Opening Weeks	1,766
Thanksgiving 3-day Weekends	100
Post-Thanksgiving Weekend - Biggest Drops	198
Post-Thanksgiving Weekend - Best Holds	177
Movies That Never Hit #1	32
Theater Averages - All Time Adjusted	47
Theater Averages - Opening Weekends	39
Opening Weekends	1,862
Opening Weekends - November	194
Eleventh Weekends	40
Tenth Weekends	50
Twelfth Weekends	52
Most Weekends in Top 10 (non-consecutive)	20
Consecutive Weekends In Top 10	36
Sixth Weekends	22
Seventh Weekends	16
Eighth Weekends	58
Smallest Drops, All Wide Releases	62
Rated G	9
Rated G and PG	46
Rated G, Opening Weekends	71
Widest G Rated Openings	165
Widest G Rated Releases	92
Slowest to $100 million	50
Best Picture Nomination Effect	124
BOM Users' Grades	53
BOM Users' Grades (1991 Releases)	3
Charts (Premier Pass Users Only)	Rank
Highest All Time Rank (on June 23, 1992)	35
Yearly (Wide) 1991	3
Yearly Opening Weekends (Limited) 1991	35
Yearly Opening Weekends (Wide) 1991	22
Opening Weeks Adjusted	1,287
Thanksgiving 3-day Weekends Adjusted	72
Movies That Never #1 Adjusted	4
Theater Averages - All Time Adjusted	21
Theater Averages - Opening Weekends Adjusted	17
Opening Weekends Adjusted - November	155
Opening Weekends Adjusted	1,358
Eleventh Weekends Adjusted	33
Tenth Weekends Adjusted	38
Twelfth Weekends Adjusted	43
Sixth Weekends Adjusted	17
Seventh Weekends Adjusted	14
Eighth Weekends Adjusted	42
Rated G Adjusted	27
Rated G and PG Adjusted	64
Rated G, Opening Weekends Adjusted	53