Los Angeles, United States | AFP | Sunday 7/14/2019 – 09:48 UTC+8
In the early 1990s, Disney began scouring its back catalog for animated classics that it could turn into live-action remakes — a strategy that has so far netted more than $7 billion.
The latest offering, “The Lion King,” which uses live-action filmmaking techniques to create photo-realistic graphics, hits theaters on Friday.
Here is a list of the company’s big-screen live-action remakes — which doesn’t include straight-to-video releases or sequels of remakes — and their total box office take:
“Rudyard Kipling’s The Jungle Book” – 1994(based on “The Jungle Book” – 1967)
$43.2 million
“101 Dalmatians” – 1996(“One Hundred and One Dalmatians” – 1961)
$321 million
“Alice in Wonderland” – 2010(“Alice in Wonderland” – 1951)
$1 billion
“Maleficent” – 2014(“Sleeping Beauty” – 1959)
$759 million
“Cinderella” – 2015(“Cinderella” – 1950)
$544 million
“The Jungle Book” – 2016(“The Jungle Book” – 1967)
$967 million
“Pete’s Dragon” – 2016(“Pete’s Dragon” – 1977*)
$144 million
“Beauty and the Beast” – 2017(“Beauty and the Beast” – 1991)
$1.3 billion
“Dumbo” – 2019(“Dumbo” – 1941)
$352 million
“Aladdin” – 2019(“Aladdin” – 1992)
$926 million
Source: BoxOfficeMojo.com
* The original “Pete’s Dragon” was also a mix of live-action and animation
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