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And for today's follow-up, the live-action version of Beauty and the Beast. The Movie: Continuing their successful formula of springtime live-action remakes, Disney released this version of Beauty in the Beast in 2017 after much anticipation.  It received generally positive reviews, leading to the 10th largest opening weekend of all-time.  As of today, it still ranks 10th in North American box-office and 13th in worldwide box-office all-time.  It received two Oscar nominations, for production design and costume design. More so than Disney's other live-action remakes, Beauty and the Beast hues closely to the animated film.  Minor additions help add to the backstories of Belle and the Beast, mainly through the use of flashback and a magic book that allows them to travel anywhere.  The Beast is given a minor character change, here being well-educated and much more read than his animated counterpart.  Belle is also made an inventor here, and her father...

Today we examine a "tale as old as time," Beauty and the Beast. The Movie: Beauty and the Beast is the 30th movie in the Disney Animated Canon and the second animated musical of the Disney Renaissance.  It was released to near-universal praise and was the 3rd highest grossing film of the year.  Beauty and the Beast was the first animated film to win the Golden Globe for Best Movie - Musical or Comedy and the first animated film ever to be nominated for Best Picture at the Oscars.  Today it is often held as one of the best animated movies ever made. Based on the fairy tale as told by French author Jeanne-Marie Leprince de Beaumont, Beauty and the Beast tells the story of a young prince who turns away a beggar woman.  The beggar woman is actually and enchantress in disguise, and as punishment she transforms him into a hideous beast, and the curse can only be broken if he learns to love and is loved in return.  A decade later, an inventor named Maurice get...