Disney movie is a box-office ‘Beast’: Repeat customers are keeping ‘Beauty’ aloft

When Disney’s new live-action musical fairy tale “Beauty and the Beast” opened on March 17, Shelby Pickel was there with her family at one of the first showings. The 17-year-old high school student from Broken Arrow, Okla., had grown up with the DVD of the original 1991 animated film in heavy rotation, loving its romantic story…

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