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PEOPLE & ARTS Monday 3 april 2017

‘Boss Baby’ dethrones ‘Beauty and the Beast’ with $49M debut

JAKE COYLE
AP Film Writer
NEW YORK (AP) — The task-
master toddler of “The Boss
Baby” dethroned Disney’s
“Beauty and the Beast” at
the box office with a $49
million debut, handing its
star Alec Baldwin what
President Donald Trump
might call a “huge” no. 1
opening.
Paramount Pictures suf-
fered another flop with
its controversy-plagued
“Ghost in the Shell.”
The DreamWorks Anima-
tion release from 20th Cen-
tury Fox, starring Baldwin as
a suit-clad baby, narrowly This image released by DreamWorks Animation shows characters Tim, voiced by Miles Bakshi, and Boss Baby, voiced by Alec
Baldwin in a scene from the animated film, “The Boss Baby.”
edged out the previous Associated Press
two-week leader, accord- recognizable, in general. domestic distribution chief the film a mediocre B Cin- week, Viacom Inc. hired
ing to studio estimates Sun- But he’s so topical now be- for Paramount. “You’ve got emaScore. former Fox film head Jim
day. The live-action “Beau- cause of some of the oth- a movie that is very impor- “Ghost in the Shell” will in- Gianopulos to turn around
ty and the Beast” took in er things he’s doing right tant to the fanboys since stead hope to find more its film division.
$48 million in its third week- now,” Aronson said. “It’s a it’s based on a Japanese eager moviegoers in Japan In limited release, Focus
end. Final North American very distinctive voice, and anime movie. So you’re al- (where the casting contro- Features’ “The Zookeep-
ticket sales will be released if you put it on a baby, it’s ways trying to thread that versy has not resonated) er’s Wife,” starring Jessica
Monday. funny.” needle between honoring and China next weekend. Chastain, opened well with
“We expected a decent “Ghost in the Shell,” a re- the source material and Opening in most other $3.3 million at 541 loca-
opening. We didn’t expect make of a classic 1995 Jap- make a movie for a mass countries this weekend, tions. Based on Diane Ack-
to be number one,” said anese anime film, couldn’t audience. That’s challeng- “Ghosts in the Shell” took in erman’s non-fiction book,
Chris Aronson, Fox distribu- compete with either family- ing, but clearly the reviews a modest $40.1 million. the film is about a woman’s
tion chief. friendly release. The dysto- didn’t help.” Paramount has recently efforts to save Jews during
Despite the popularity of pian science-fiction thriller, Audiences appeared to suffered a string of box-of- the Holocaust. It will ex-
“Beauty and the Beast”
(nearly $400 million do- starring Scarlett Johansson, agree with critics, giving fice disappointments. Last pand next weekend.q
opened with just $19 mil-
mestically in 17 days, and lion, a poor showing for a
$876.3 million globally), film that cost about $110
“Boss Baby” was able to million to make.
attract its own family audi- Many took issue with the
ence. casting of Johansson as
Aronson credited that part- the cyborg protagonist
ly to the appeal of Baldwin, who was Japanese in the
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