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Beauty and the Beast is a Disney media franchise comprising a film series and additional merchandise. The success of the original 1991 American animated feature, Beauty and the Be…
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Investigate this subjectBeauty and the Beast is a Disney media franchise comprising a film series and additional merchandise. The success of the original 1991 American animated feature, Beauty and the Beast, directed by Gary Trousdale and Kirk Wise, led to three direct-to-video follow-up films, a live-action spin-off television series, a Disney World stage show, a Disney World restaurant, a trackless dark ride, several…
Beauty and the Beast is a Disney media franchise comprising a film series and additional merchandise. The success of the original 1991 American animated feature, Beauty and the Beast, directed by Gary Trousdale and Kirk Wise, led to three direct-to-video follow-up films, a live-action spin-off television series, a Disney World stage show, a Disney World restaurant, a trackless dark ride, several video games, merchandise, and the 10th longest-running musical in Broadway history, which was nominated for nine Tony Awards, winning for Best Costume Design. In March 2017, Disney released a live-action remake of the film.
Belle is also a character used on Disney Consumer Products' Disney Princess franchise, while Gaston and LeFou are part of the Disney Villains franchise.
The 1991 animated film Beauty and the Beast is the original film of the franchise. It was directed by Gary Trousdale and Kirk Wise and produced by Walt Disney Feature Animation. Beauty and the Beast belongs to an era known as the Disney Renaissance. The plot of the film is based on the fairy tale Beauty and the Beast by Jeanne-Marie Le Prince de Beaumont. In 2002, Beauty and the Beast was selected for preservation in the National Film Registry by the Library of Congress for being "culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant".
Beauty and the Beast: The Enchanted Christmas is the first direct-to-video installment of the film series and served as a holiday special. It was directed by Andrew Knight, and released on November 11, 1997. Most of the film takes place in a flashback to a few weeks after the Beast saved Belle from the wolves but the beginning and the end take place one year after the events of the first film.
Belle's Magical World is the second direct-to-video installment of the film series. It was directed by Cullen Blaine, Daniel de la Vega, Barbara Dourmashkin, Dale Kase, Bob Kline, Burt Medall, and Mitch Rochon. It was released on February 17, 1998, and takes place during the events of the original film during the song “Something There.”
Belle's Tales of Friendship is a live-action/animated direct-to-video installment of the film series. It was directed by Jimbo Mitchell, and released on August 17, 1999 to help promote Disney Channel's television series, Sing Me a Story with Belle.
A live-action remake of Disney's 1991 animated feature film of the same name was released in March 2017, directed by Bill Condon. The film stars Emma Watson as Belle, Dan Stevens as the Beast, Luke Evans as Gaston, Ewan McGregor as Lumière, Ian McKellen as Cogsworth, Emma Thompson as Mrs. Potts, Kevin Kline as Maurice, and Josh Gad as LeFou.
In December 2025, a new spin-off movie centering around Gaston was announced with David Callaham writing the script from a previous draft by Kate Herron and Briony Redman. The film will have a new actor portraying Gaston and will have 'swashbuckling' undertones.
Sing Me a Story with Belle was a live-action television series created by Patrick Davidson and Melissa Gould. It featured Belle, who owns and manages the bookshop in her village. The show ran for 65 episodes on The Disney Channel from September 8, 1995, to December 11, 1999. Two episodes from the first season were released with an episode of a failed Beauty and the Beast animated television series and were released direct-to-video as Belle's Tales of Friendship.
In 2020 was announced that it was developing a streaming television series centered on Gaston and LeFou in development for Disney+. The series, serving as a prequel to the 2017 film, was created and written by Josh Gad, Eddy Kitsis and Adam Horowitz, with Gad, Kitsis and Horowitz executive-producing the series alongside Luke Evans. Evans and Gad will reprise their roles from the 2017 film as Gaston and LeFou, respectively. In June 2021, Brianna Middleton joined the cast as female lead. In January 2022, Jelani Alladin and Fra Fee joined the cast, followed by Rita Ora in February. In the same month, Disney+ temporarily paused the project, until it was cancelled to make way for a spin-off movie.
A musical television special, Beauty and the Beast: A 30th Celebration, produced by Jon M. Chu and directed by Hamish Hamilton aired on December 15, 2022, on ABC. The special included live never-before-seen musical performances, along with new sets and costumes inspired by the animated film. H.E.R. has been cast to play Belle. The rest of the cast featured Josh Groban, Joshua Henry, Rita Moreno, Martin Short, Shania Twain, and David Alan Grier as the Beast, Gaston, the narrator, Lumière, Mrs. Potts, and Cogsworth, respectively. Paige O'Hara and Richard White, the original voices of Belle and Gaston, respectively, and composer Alan Menken made cameos in the special.
A musical, based on the original film, debuted April 18, 1994, on Broadway at the Palace Theatre and later transferred to the Lunt-Fontanne Theatre in 1999. The musical was directed by Robert Jess Roth, produced by Disney Theatrical, and written by Linda Woolverton. Beauty and the Beast ran on Broadway for 5,461 performances between 1994 and 2007, becoming Broadway's eighth longest-running production in history. The musical has grossed more than $1.4 billion worldwide and played in thirteen countries and 115 cities. The stage version included many songs not included in the musical, such as the deleted songs "Human Again" (whose demo was 9 minutes long) and "Gaston (Reprise)", a Beast number - "If I Can't Love Her", and a Maurice number - "No Matter What". The song "A Change in Me" was kept in the production after being written for Toni Braxton during her stint as Belle.
Beauty and the Beast is an action platformer developed by Probe Software and published by Hudson Soft for the NES. It was released in Europe in 1994. Gaston, logically, is the final boss of the game because he wants to kill the Beast and marry Belle
Disney's Beauty and the Beast is an action platformer for the SNES. It was developed by Probe Entertainment and publis
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