‘Alice in Wonderland’ (2010) movie poster/AFP
LOS ANGELES, United States, Jul 14 – 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
