'Beauty and the Beast' Takes Top Spot on China's Box Office with $46.74M

Emma Watson as Belle
Emma Watson as Belle (photo: Entertainment Weekly)
By M. GraceMarch 22nd, 2017

Hollywood continues to take top spot on China's Box Office and on the latest, "Beauty and the Beast" live version starring Emma Watson and Dan Stevens took top spot for March 13 to 19.

The said film is reported to be the grandest in China when in terms of Disney's live action debut in the country. It's opening three days garnered $46.74m.

The said new Disney film was a live reboot of the 1991 Oscar-nominated animated film.

Meanwhile, actress Emma Watson has revealed what she thinks as she portrays the role of Belle as one of the Disney's princesses.

"I say "princess" because actually Belle isn't a princess. She's the only Disney princess who actually isn't a princess.  I think she was meant to be a departure from the Disney princesses that had come before her. She's actually loosely based on Katherine Hepburn, she was written by a woman called Linda Woolverton. She was meant to break the mould so I felt very connected to her," she stated.

Dan Stevens also added that it is the movie that people need to see as it was the film almost all people can relate to as it was a film they watched while growing up.

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