Be sure to check back on Sunday to see how Beauty and the Beast fared at the box office this weekend.
The live action fairy tale adaptation could score an even bigger opening weekend, if audiences keep raving about the movie.
While the Thursday preview gross isn’t a record-breaking figure, it does indicate that this live action adaptation will have a huge opening weekend.
Most analysts were predicting that Disney’s live-action adaptation of Beauty and the Beast would have no trouble winning at the box office, with a projected opening weekend of $120 million.