[Flashback] The Same Woman Wrote Maleficent and Beauty and the Beast—Here's How They're Linked
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Time ^
| May 30, 2014 | Lily Rothman
Linda Woolverton knows her Disney princesses. After
all, the veteran screenwriter worked on Beauty and the Beast, The Lion King, Mulan, the 2010 Alice in Wonderland and the Sleeping Beauty reimagination Maleficent, which arrives in theaters today. So she speaks from experience when she says that Maleficent, which stars Angelina Jolie as the titular villain, couldn’t have existed until this point in time — because the world wasn’t necessarily ready for such a strong, complicated female protagonist. When Woolverton worked on Beauty, she says, it was shortly after the arrival of The Little Mermaid; the Disney princess was well aligned...
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Beauty and the Beast
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Daily Mail ^
| Feb. 28,2022 | Chay Quinn
Ukrainian women and children help to prepare makeshift weapons as Lviv brewery produces Molotov cocktails made in bottles of its ‘Putin is a d***head’ craft beer
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NASA warns spectacular 'beauty and the beast' aurora could wreak havoc on Earth
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The Mirror ^
| 15:43, 22 APR 2019 | Sophie Curtis
NASA has shared a spectacular picture of the Northern Lights adorning the sky in Iceland - but warned that the "beauty and the beast" aurora could wreak havoc here on Earth. The image was captured by astronomer Juan Carlos Casado in 2016, and selected as NASA's Astronomy Picture of the Day on
Sunday. It shows the aurora borealis over Thingvallavatn Lake in Iceland - a lake that partly fills a fault that divides Earth's large Eurasian and North American tectonic plates. "Admire the beauty but fear the beast," wrote Casado, in his picture caption. The beauty is the aurora overhead,...
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Beauty and the Beast producer Jack Morrissey tweets THREAT to Covington kids (truncated)
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Twitchy ^
| 1/21/19 | Sam J
Nothing like seeing a bunch of supposed adults talking all big and bad about physically harming a group of high school kids. Like
Jack Morrissey. Full transparency, we’d never heard of this guy Twitter saw fit to verify, but doing a quick search it turns out he’s a co-producer on the remake of ‘Beauty and the Beast’. Dude produced a movie that would fall into the ‘family’ genre and tweets crap like this:
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Disney's 'Beauty and the Beast' Waltzing Past $1B at Global Box Office
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Yahoo News via Hollywood Reporter ^
| -4/13/2017 | Pamela McClintock, The Hollywood Reporter
Beauty and the Beast is joining the billion-dollar club at the worldwide box office. Director
Bill Condon‘s update of Disney‘s classic 1991 animated film likely will achieve the milestone by Thursday. (The entry of The Fate of the Furious in a handful of foreign markets on Wednesday is clouding the forecast.) On Tuesday, Beauty, starring Emma Watson as Belle, grossed $9.7 million for a worldwide total of $993.2 million. The tentpole has earned $435.9 million domestically and $557.3 million overseas, led by China ($85.2 million) and the U.K. ($75.3 million). Disney has plenty of reason to celebrate. Beauty and the...
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Ivanka Trump thinks she is in Beauty and the Beast: more like Macbeth
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Guardian ^
| Thursday 6 April 2017 06.06 EDT
‘Sometime soon, Ivanka Trump will not be able to cover all the moral contradictions of her carefully sculpted pose.’ You
can’t have it both ways, Ivanka, especially now that you have new, embossed White House stationery with an official title, assistant to the president. Drop the wink, wink, nod, nod pretence that you and Jared Kushner are “moderating influences” – where is the moderation? Kushner, who holds the same nebulous but all powerful White House job, has huge influence derived from having married a Trump. Like him, your loyalty is unquestioned. Everyone knows you are your father’s most intimate adviser,...
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The Bigger Reason You Should Be Worked Up About Beauty and the Beast
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John Elton Pletcher blog ^
| Match 27, 2017 | John Elton Pletcher
... Truth be told, this scene marvelously portrays a dusty concept known as transformatio mundi. It’s
Latin for the eschatological belief that with the end-times arrival of New Heavens and New Earth, all will be cleansed, fully transformed. All of “the house” will be renewed, gloriously redeemed—all of Creation, including the servants, believers in Christ Jesus along with their grace-motivated, God-glorifying work (Ephesians 2:8-10; Romans 8). Very closely related is the marvelous concept of resurrection. Christ rose in his new, physical body, fully alive. His own work of gracious salvation and bodily resurrection supply the first taste and the precious...
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A FReeper watches "Beauty and the Beast" (2017)
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ctdonath2
Having bought premium tickets in advance of the "gay moment" revelation, I ended up seeing Disney's remake of Beauty and the Beast. No point in wasting good money over an alleged 2-second problem in a 2-hour movie. FWIW,
I saw the standard-format 2D version. WARINING: SPOILERS. Not that you're really going to find them spoiling, since you already know the story and the hysteria, but if you're worried about spoilers anyway then stop here already. Overall, it was a worthy remake of the hit animated film we all recall. The new generation is growing up with photorealistic animation (vs hand-drawn...
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Did you know the Beauty and the Beast costumes were crafted in India?
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Elle ^
| 03/21/2017 | BY HASINA KHATIB
While Disney was creating magic onscreen with their live-action retelling of the Beauty and the Beast tale, Indian artisans were weaving their own form of magic offscreen through Belle’s wardrobe. Sinéad
O’Sullivan, assistant costume designer of the movie, will have you know that doing justice to the eighteenth century aesthetic is no small feat. When it came to commissioning exquisite French floral designs for Belle’s costumes, she spread her web wide and of course, caught on to the good artisans of Bhuj, Gujarat. As part of her commitment to the ‘Who made my clothes’ initiative, O’Sullivan shared the story of...
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‘Beauty and the Beast’ to Open in Malaysia With ‘Gay Moment’ Intact
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The Wrap ^
| 03/21/2017 | Tony Maglio
Disney’s massive box office hit “Beauty and the Beast†will open in Malaysia after all, and “with no cuts.†Yes,
that means the film’s highly publicized “gay moment†will remain intact over there.“We are pleased to announce that Disney’s ‘Beauty And The Beast’ has now been approved to be released in Malaysia with no cuts, with a PG-13 rating,†the Walt Disney Company of Malaysia told the New Straits Times. “Be our guest when the film opens in Malaysian cinemas on March 30, 2017.â€Malaysian theater giant Golden Screen Cinemas confirmed the news on Twitter this morning: BEAUTY AND THE...
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‘Beauty and the Beast’ Bows With Record-Breaking $170 Million Opening
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MSN ^
| March 19, 2017 | Jeremy Fuster
"Beauty and the Beast" is now estimated to break the all-time opening weekend record for a PG-rated film set last year by "Finding Dory" as it is now estimated to make $170 million in its opening weekend from 4,210 after grossing $63 million on its opening Saturday.
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Box Office: 'Beauty and the Beast' Waltzing to Huge $165M-$170M Bow
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The Hollywood Reporter ^
| March 17, 2017 | Pamela McClintock and Rebecca Ford
Disney's live-action adaptation of the classic animated musical could clear $60 million on Friday alone on its way to landing one of the top 10 openings of all time, not accounting for inflation.
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Faithless Disney, Empty Malick [Beauty & the Beast]
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National Review ^
| March 17, 2017 | Armond White
The classic 1946 French version of Beauty and the Beast (La Belle et la Bête) featured an opening epigraph that explained the concept behind director Jean Cocteau’s live-action fairy tale: “Children believe what we tell them. They
have complete faith in us.” That faith gets compromised in the new live-action musical Beauty and the Beast. Its attempt to sneakily indoctrinate children (and adults) into Disney Corporation banality recasts the nature of parent-child (and Hollywood-consumer) relations so that that bond is subsumed in state-sponsored political correctness. This new version — with its feminist Belle (Emma Watson), a crude, chauvinist-male Beast (Dan...
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‘Beauty And The Beast’ Selling Out Showtimes From North To South; Poised To Whip [tr]
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Deadline Hollywood ^
| March 16, 2017 | Anthony D'Alessandro
By the way, in case you didn’t know, there’s a huge movie opening tonight: Disney’s live action feature Beauty and the Beast. Previews kicked off at 6PM EST in Imax, PLF and Cinemark XD auditoriums with regular 2D shows starting at 7PM. Non-Disney early estimates are pegging Beauty and the Beast between
$12M-$14M for tonight, which would blow away recent Disney live action titles, The Jungle Book ($4.2m Thursday, $32M Friday) on its first Thursday and Cinderella ($2.3M Thursday, $23M Friday). That’s a great start for a female-skewing film and unlike last year’s Batman v. Superman which was frontloaded with...
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Disney Says It Won’t Edit ‘Beauty and the Beast’ for Malaysian Censors
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New York Times ^
| MARCH 15, 2017 | RICHARD C. PADDOCK
BANGKOK — Walt Disney Studios has refused to cut a brief, gay-themed scene from “Beauty and the Beast” as demanded by government censors in Malaysia, meaning the film will not open there Thursday as scheduled. The
Film Censorship Board of Malaysia recently ruled that a shot involving two male characters dancing in a ballroom must be cut from the movie, on the grounds that it promotes homosexuality. The sequence is said to be three seconds long. “The film has not been and will not be cut for Malaysia,” Disney said in a statement Tuesday without elaborating. The film’s director, Bill...
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‘Beauty and the Beast’ shelved in Malaysia (62% Muslim Population)
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Page Six ^
| 3-14-2017 | Staff
Walt Disney has shelved the release of its new movie “Beauty and the Beast” in mainly Muslim Malaysia, even though film censors said Tuesday it had been approved with a minor cut involving a “gay moment.” The
country’s two main cinema chains said the movie, due to begin screening Thursday, has been postponed indefinitely. No reason was given.
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Atlantic Columnist: Christians Hypocritical ‘Bigots’ on Gay ‘Beauty and the Beast’ Character
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Newsbusters ^
| | March 11, 2017 | 12:50 PM EST | By Curtis Houck
The Atlantic contributor and Religion News Service (RNS) columnist Jonathan Merritt lashed out at conservative Christians for opposing the so-called gay “moment” in the upcoming Beauty and the Beast remake, charging they’re coming across as “antiquated bigots” keeping people from “coexist[ing].” Writing
with the title “Flaming hypocrisy in evangelical Disney boycott” and subhead “Avoiding the subject of homosexuality will not prepare kids for the real world,” Merritt showed pettiness from the start, knocking Christians for “hav[ing] opted for sackcloth and ashes” upon the news about LeFou (Josh Gad) instead of “singing and dancing.” Merritt targeted Franklin Graham, our friends at...
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Children under 16 can’t see ‘Beauty and the Beast’ in Russia (Movie Given a 16+ rating)
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Washington Post ^
| 03/08/2017
MOSCOW — Children under age 16 won’t be able to go to the new Disney film “Beauty and the Beast” in Russia because it includes a gay character, the Russian Culture Ministry said Tuesday. The ministry told The Associated Press in an emailed statement that its decision for the 16-plus rating followed
petitions by lawmaker Vitaly Milonov, known for his ultraconservative views, petitioned for the live-action film to be banned. In a letter released Saturday by the RIA Novosti news agency, Milonov protested the screening of a movie that disseminates “overt and shameless propaganda of sin and sexual perversion under...
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All About That So called, ‘Gay Moment’ in ‘Beauty and the Beast’: We Answer Your Burning Questions
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Yahoo Movies ^
| 03/08/2017 | Gwynne Watkins
For the past few days, the Internet has been exploding over the news that Beauty and the Beast (in theaters March 17) has what director Bill Condon called Disney’s first “exclusively gay moment.” In
the remake of the 1991 animated film, the character of LeFou (Josh Gad), aide-de-camp to the villain Gaston (Luke Evans), appears to be in love with his captain. Thanks to a second, new character, LeFou’s storyline resolves in a moment of self-acceptance. But Condon has since said that his quote was “overblown,” and indeed, once audiences see the film, they’ll likely decide that the so-called controversy...
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Disney’s New “Beauty & the Beast”: More LGBTQ Propaganda From the Magick Queendom
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The New American ^
| 3/6/2017 | William F. Jasper
What next? A Brokeback Mountain version of Old Yeller? A transgendered Mickey Mouse? Bruce “Caitlyn” Jenner starring in the father role in a remake of Swiss Family Robinson? Don’t laugh, the above absurdities — and worse — are no doubt percolating on the diversity/perversity menu at the Magick Queendom. Not content with
showing two 13-year-old boys kissing on The Fosters and the LGBTQ agitprop of The Real O’Neals (the creation of virulently anti-Christian, foul-mouthed, homosexual fanatic Dan Savage), the Disney-ABC Television Group is releasing its live-action version of the classic fairytale Beauty and the Beast as a new milestone for...
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