\LOS ANGELES: 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 almost $4 billion.
The latest offering, "Beauty and the Beast," hits theaters on Friday and has already broken pre-release sales records, with hopes high that it will be one of the largest-grossing movies of the year.
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, such as last year's "Alice Through the Looking Glass" -- the original film, 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
(based on "One Hundred and One Dalmatians" - 1961)
$320 million
"Alice in Wonderland" - 2010
(based on "Alice in Wonderland" - 1951)
$1.0 billion
"Maleficent" - 2014
(based on "Sleeping Beauty" - 1959)
$759 million "Cinderella" - 2015
(based on "Cinderella" - 1950)
$544 million"The Jungle Book" - 2016
(based on "The Jungle Book" - 1967)
$967 million"Pete's Dragon" - 2016
