document_title: Beauty and the Beast (2017 film)

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text: Beauty and the Beast (2017 film)

text: Plot[edit]

text: A beautiful enchantress disguised as an old beggar woman arrives at a castle during a ball and offers the host, a cruel and selfish prince, a rose in return for shelter from a storm. When he refuses, she reveals her identity. To punish the prince for his lack of compassion, the enchantress transforms him into a beast and his servants into household objects, then erases the castle, the prince and his servants from the memories of their loved ones. She casts a spell on the rose and warns the prince that the curse will only be broken if he learns to love another, and earn their love in return, before the last petal falls.

text: Some years later, in the small town of Villeneuve, Belle, the book-loving daughter of a music box maker and artist Maurice, dreams of adventure and brushes off advances from Gaston, an arrogant former soldier. On his way to a convention and lost in the forest, Maurice seeks refuge in the Beast's castle warming himself near the fire then being  scared away by chip after having some food, but the Beast imprisons him for stealing a rose from his garden as a gift to Belle. When Maurice's horse returns without him, Belle ventures out in search for him, and finds him locked in the castle dungeon. The Beast agrees to let her take Maurice's place.

text: Belle befriends the castle's servants, who invite her to a spectacular dinner. When she wanders into the forbidden west wing and finds the rose, the Beast scares her into the woods. She is ambushed by a pack of wolves, but the Beast rescues her, and is injured in the process. As Belle nurses his wounds, a friendship develops between them, also he shows her his library and gives it to her which makes her feel a different way towards the beast unlike before. The Beast shows Belle a gift from the enchantress, a book that transports readers wherever they want. Belle uses the book to visit her childhood home in Paris, where she discovers a plague doctor mask and realizes that she and her father were forced to leave when her mother succumbed to the plague.

text: In Villeneuve, Maurice tries to convince the other villagers of the Beast and Belle's imprisonment but no one believes him. Gaston, seeing rescuing Belle as an opportunity to win her hand in marriage, agrees to help Maurice. When Maurice learns of his ulterior motive and rejects him, Gaston abandons him to be eaten by the wolves. Maurice is rescued by the hermit Agathe, but when he tells the townsfolk of Gaston's crime and is unable to provide solid evidence, Gaston convinces them to send Maurice to an insane asylum.

text: After sharing a romantic dance with the Beast, Belle discovers her father's predicament using a magic mirror. The Beast releases her to save Maurice, giving her the mirror to remember him with. At Villeneuve, Belle reveals the Beast in the mirror to the townsfolk, proving her father's sanity. Realizing that Belle loves the Beast, a jealous Gaston claims she has been charmed by dark magic, and has her thrown into the asylum carriage with her father. He rallies the villagers to follow him to the castle to slay the Beast before he curses the whole village. Maurice and Belle escape, and Belle rushes back to the castle.

text: During the battle, Gaston abandons his companion LeFou, who then sides with the servants to fend off the villagers. Gaston attacks the Beast in his tower, who is too depressed to fight back, but regains his spirit upon seeing Belle return. He defeats Gaston, but spares his life before reuniting with Belle. Ungrateful and unrepentant, Gaston fatally shoots the Beast from a bridge, but it collapses when the castle crumbles, and he falls to his death. The Beast tells belle that he was happy to see her again then he dies as the last petal falls, and the servants become inanimate. As Belle tearfully professes her love to the Beast, Agathe reveals herself as the enchantress and undoes the curse, repairing the crumbling castle, and reviving the beast then turning him and his servants' human making the villagers' remember there loved ones. The Prince and Belle host a ball for the villagers, where they dance happily.

text: Cast[edit]

text:
Emma Watson as Belle, a young benevolent bibliophile woman who develops feelings for the Beast and begins to see the humanity within him.
Daisy Duczmal portrays an infant Belle.
Dan Stevens as Beast, a cold-hearted, selfish, unkind prince who is transformed into a beast and forced to earn back his humanity by learning to truly love and be loved in return, as well as to give rather than take. Stevens portrays the character through motion-capture.[13][14]
Adam Mitchell[1] portrays the younger version of the prince.
Luke Evans as Gaston, a narcissistic and arrogant hunter and veteran of the French Royal Army who is willing to go as far as it takes to have Belle as his trophy wife.
Kevin Kline as Maurice, Belle's protective widowed father who works as a music box maker and an artist.[15]
Jolyon Coy portrays the young Maurice.
Josh Gad as LeFou, Gaston's flamboyant and long-suffering sidekick who bolsters his friend's ego but gets very little in return.[16]
Ewan McGregor as Lumière, the Beast's charismatic bouteiller who has been transformed into a candelabra.[17]
Stanley Tucci as Maestro Cadenza, the neurotic court composer and Madame de Garderobe's husband who has been transformed into a harpsichord.[18]
Audra McDonald as Madame de Garderobe, a world-renowned opera singer and Cadenza's wife who has been transformed into a wardrobe.[19]
Gugu Mbatha-Raw as Plumette, one of the castle maids and Lumière's lover who has been transformed into a feather duster.[20]
Ian McKellen as Cogsworth, the Beast's gruff but loyal majordomo and the head of the household staff who has been transformed into a mantel clock.[21]
Emma Thompson as Mrs. Potts, the castle's motherly head housekeeper who has been transformed into a teapot.[15]
Hattie Morahan as Agathe, an impoverished hermit and resident of Villeneuve who, in reality, is the enchantress responsible for cursing the Prince.[22] Morahan also narrates the prologue.
Rita Davies portrays the enchantress in her beggar woman form. The film was released posthumously after Davies' death.
Nathan Mack as Chip, Mrs. Potts' plucky son who has been transformed into a teacup.[23]
Adrian Schiller as Monsieur D'Arque, the sly warden of the local asylum who is bribed by Gaston to have Maurice institutionalized.[22]
Gerard Horan as Monsieur Jean Potts, an absent-minded potter and resident of Villeneuve who is later revealed to be Mrs. Potts' husband and Chip's father.
Haydn Gwynne as Clothilde, a fishmonger and resident of Villeneuve who is later revealed to be Cogsworth's wife.
Michael Jibson as the Tavern Keeper, the owner and keeper of Villeneuve's local tavern where Gaston and the village residents drink.
Ray Fearon as Père Robert, Villeneuve's local chaplain who encourages Belle to borrow the books in the chapel's meager library.
Sophie Reid, Rafaëlle Cohen, and Carla Nella as the Village Lasses, a trio of women who fawn over Gaston and have a jealousy for Belle.
Jimmy Johnston, Dean Street, and Alexis Loizon as Tom, Dick, and Stanley, a trio of men who serve as Gaston's henchmen.
Zoe Rainey as Belle's mother, Maurice's late wife who contracted the plague and died when Belle was an infant.
Clive Rowe as Cuisinier, the castle's head chef who has been transformed into a stove.
Gizmo as Frou-Frou, Maestro Cadenza's and Madame de Garderobe's pet Yorkshire Terrier who has been transformed into a footstool.
Thomas Padden as Chapeau, the prince's valet who has been transformed into a coat rack.
Tom Turner[2] as The King, the prince's father who, following his wife's death, raised his son to be just as selfish and arrogant as he was.
Harriet Jones as The Queen, the prince's mother who died of an illness when he was a child.
Dale Branston as Villeneuve's residential baker.
Chris Andrew Mellon as Nasty Headmaster, the unnamed headmaster of an all boys school in Villeneuve that disapproves of Belle teaching a young girl how to read.
Vivian Parry as the Village Lass' mother, an unnamed seamstress.

text: Cast notes[edit]

text: ^  In the initial theatrical release, Mitchell was miscredited as Rudi Gooman in the cast, but listed under his real name in the soundtrack credits

text: ^  In the initial theatrical release, Turner is miscredited as Henry Garrett in the cast.[24]

text: Stephen Merchant also appeared in the film as Monsieur Toilette, a servant who was turned into a toilet. This character was cut from the film, but is featured in the deleted scenes.[25]

text: Production[edit]

text: Development[edit]

text: Previously, Disney had begun work on a film adaptation of the 1994 Broadway musical.[26][27] However, in a 2011 interview, composer Alan Menken stated the planned film version of the Beauty and the Beast stage musical "was canned".[28]

text: By April 2014, Walt Disney Pictures had already begun developing a new live-action version of Beauty and the Beast after making other live-action fantasy films such as Alice in Wonderland, Maleficent, Cinderella and The Jungle Book.[29] In June 2014, Bill Condon was signed to direct the film from a script by Evan Spiliotopoulos.[30] Later in September of that same year, Stephen Chbosky (who had previously directed Watson in The Perks of Being a Wallflower) was hired to re-write the script.[31]

text: Before Condon was hired to direct the film, Disney approached him with a proposal to remake the film in a more radical way as Universal Studios had remade Snow White and the Huntsman (2012). Condon later explained that "after Frozen opened, the studio saw that there was this big international audience for an old-school-musical approach. But initially, they said, 'We're interested in a musical to a degree, but only half full of songs.' My interest was taking that film and doing it in this new medium—live-action—as a full-on musical movie. So I backed out for a minute, and they came back and said, 'No, no, no, we get it, let's pursue it that way.'"[32] Walt Disney Pictures president of production Sean Bailey credited Walt Disney Studios chairman Alan F. Horn with the decision to make the film as a musical: "We worked on this for five or six years, and for 18 months to two years, Beauty was a serious dramatic project, and the scripts were written to reflect that. It wasn't a musical at that time. But we just couldn't get it to click and it was Alan Horn who championed the idea of owning the Disney of it all. We realized there was a competitive advantage in the songs. What is wrong with making adults feel like kids again?"[33]

text: Casting[edit]

text: In January 2015, Emma Watson announced that she would be starring as Belle, the female lead.[34] She was the first choice of Walt Disney Studios chairman Alan F. Horn, as he had previously overseen Warner Bros. which released the eight Harry Potter films that co-starred Watson as Hermione Granger.[33] Two months later, Luke Evans and Dan Stevens were revealed to be in talks to play Gaston and the Beast respectively,[35][36] and Watson confirmed their casting the following day through tweets.[13][37] The rest of the principal cast, including Josh Gad, Emma Thompson, Kevin Kline, Audra McDonald, Ian McKellen, Gugu Mbatha-Raw, Ewan McGregor and Stanley Tucci were announced between March and April to play LeFou, Mrs. Potts, Maurice, Madame de Garderobe, Cogsworth, Plumette, Lumière and Cadenza, respectively.[16][15][19][21][20][17][18][38]

text: Susan Egan, who originated the role of Belle on Broadway, commented on the casting of Watson as "perfect".[39] Paige O'Hara, who voiced Belle in the original animated film and its sequels, offered to help Watson with her singing lessons.[40]

text: According to The Hollywood Reporter, Emma Watson was reportedly paid $3 million upfront, together with an agreement that her final take-home pay could rise as high as $15 million if the film generated gross box office income similar to Maleficent's $759 million worldwide gross.[41]

text: Filming[edit]

text: Principal photography on the film began at Shepperton Studios in Surrey, United Kingdom, on May 18, 2015.[15][42][43] Filming with the principal actors concluded on August 21.[44][45] Six days later, co-producer Jack Morrissey confirmed that the film had officially wrapped production.[46]

text: The Beast was portrayed with a "more traditional motion capture puppeteering for the body and the physical orientation", where actor Dan Stevens was "in a forty-pound gray suit on stilts for much of the film". The facial capture for the Beast was done separately in order to "communicate the subtleties of the human face" and "[capture the] thought that occurs to him" which gets "through [to] the eyes, which are the last human element in the Beast." The castle servants who are transformed into household objects were created with CGI animation.[8]

text: Before the release of the film, Bill Condon refilmed one certain sequence in the "Days of the Sun" number, due to confusion among test audiences caused by actress Harriet Jones, who looked similar to Hattie Morahan, who portrayed Agathe. In the original version of the scene, it was Jones's character, the Prince's mother, who sings the first verse of the song, with Rudi Goodman playing the young Prince and Henry Garrett playing his father; but in the reshot version of the scene, the singing part is given to the Prince (now played by Adam Mitchell). The King was also recast to Tom Turner, although Harriet Jones was still the Queen, albeit with dark hair. Both Goodman and Garrett's names were mistakenly featured in the original theatrical release's credits, but was later corrected in home releases.[24]

text: Music[edit]

text: When released in 1991, Beauty and the Beast, marked a turning point for Walt Disney Pictures by appealing to millions of fans with its Oscar-winning musical score by lyricist Howard Ashman and composer Alan Menken. In Bill Condon's opinion, that original score was the key reason he agreed to direct a live-action version of the movie. "That score had more to reveal", he says, "You look at the songs and there's not a clunker in the group. In fact, Frank Rich described it as the best Broadway musical of 1991. The animated version was already darker and more modern than the previous Disney fairytales. Take that vision, put it into a new medium, make it a radical reinvention, something not just for the stage because it's not just being literal, now other elements come into play. It's not just having real actors do it".[47]

text: Condon initially prepared on only drawing inspiration from the original film, but he also planned to include most of the songs composed by Alan Menken, Howard Ashman and Tim Rice from the Broadway musical, with the intention of making the film as a "straight-forward, live-action, large-budget movie musical".[48] Menken returned to score the film's music, which features songs from the original film by him and Howard Ashman, plus new material written by Menken and Tim Rice.[49] Menken said the film would not include songs that were written for the Broadway musical and instead, created four new songs.[50] However, an instrumental version of the song "Home", which was written for the musical, is used during the scene where Belle first enters her room in the castle.[51]

text: On January 19, 2017, it was confirmed by both Disney and Céline Dion—singer of the original 1991 "Beauty and the Beast" duet song, with singer Peabo Bryson—that Dion would be performing one of the new original songs "How Does a Moment Last Forever" to play over the end titles.[52] She originally had doubts about whether or not to record the song due to the recent death of her husband and manager René Angélil, who had previously helped her secure the 1991 pop duet. While ultimately accepting the opportunity, she said: "[The] first Beauty and the Beast decision was made with my husband. Now I'm making decisions on my own. It's a little bit harder. I couldn't say yes right away, because I felt like I was kind of cheating in a way". She eventually felt compelled to record the song because of the impact Beauty and the Beast has had on her career. According to Dion, "I was at the beginning of my career, it put me on the map, it put me where I am today". Also, Josh Groban was announced to be performing the new original song "Evermore" on January 26, 2017.[53][54][55][56]

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The 2017 film features a remake of the 1991 original song recorded as a duet by Ariana Grande and John Legend.[57][58] Grande and Legend's updated version of the title song is faithful to the original, Grammy-winning duet, performed by Céline Dion and Peabo Bryson for the 1991 Disney film.[59]
Disney debuted the music video for Ariana Grande and John Legend's interpretation of the title song on Freeform television network on March 5, 2017, and it has since been viewed over 100 million views on the Vevo video-hosting service.[60]

text: Emma Thompson also performed a rendition of the title song, which was performed by Angela Lansbury in the original 1991 animated film.[60]

text: Release[edit]

text: On March 16, 2015, Disney announced the film would be released in 3D on March 17, 2017.[15] The first official presentation of the film took place at Disney's three-day D23 Expo in August 2015.[61]

text: The world premiere of Beauty and the Beast took place at Spencer House in London, United Kingdom on February 23, 2017;[62] and the film later premiered at the El Capitan Theatre in Hollywood, California, on March 2, 2017. The stream was broadcast onto YouTube.

text: A sing along version of the film released in over 1,200 US theaters nationwide on April 7, 2017.[63] The United Kingdom received the same version on April 21, 2017.[64]

text: The film was re-released in New York and Los Angeles for a one-week engagement starting December 1, 2017. The move was an awards push as awards season heats up.[65]

text: Marketing[edit]

text: Disney spent around $140 million to market the film worldwide.[66] Following an announcement on May 22, 2016,[67] Disney premiered the first official teaser trailer on Good Morning America the next day.[68] In its first 24 hours, the teaser trailer reached 91.8 million views, which was the largest number ever seen for a trailer in that amount of time.[69] This record has since been broken by Thor: Ragnarok,[70] It and Avengers: Infinity War.[71][72] The first official teaser poster was released on July 7, 2016.[73] On November 2, 2016, Entertainment Weekly debuted the first official image on the cover of their magazine, along with nine new photos.[74][75] One week later, Emma Watson and Disney debuted a new poster.[76] On November 14, 2016, the first theatrical trailer was released, again on Good Morning America.[77] This reached 127.6 million views in its first 24 hours, setting a new record for the most views in one day, beating Fifty Shades Darker;[78] this record has since been broken by The Fate of the Furious.[79] A TV spot with Watson singing was shown during the 74th Golden Globe Awards.[80] Disney released the final trailer on January 30, 2017.[81]

text: Home media[edit]

text: Beauty and the Beast was released on Blu-ray, DVD and Digital HD on June 6, 2017.[82] The film debuted at No. 1 on the NPD VideoScan overall disc sales chart, with all other titles in the top 20, collectively, selling only 40% as many units as Beauty and the Beast.[83] The movie regained the top spot on the national home video sales charts during its third week of release.[84] The movie became available on Netflix on September 19, 2017.

text: Reception[edit]

text: Box office[edit]

text: Beauty and the Beast grossed $504 million in the United States and Canada and $759.5 million in other countries for a worldwide gross of $1.263 billion.[6] With a production budget of $254 million, it is the most expensive musical ever made.[86][5] In just ten days, it became the highest-grossing live-action musical of all time, beating the nine-year-old record held by Mamma Mia!. It is currently the second-biggest musical ever overall, behind Disney's Frozen (2013).[87] Worldwide, the film proved to be a global phenomenon, earning a total of $357 million over its four-day opening weekend from 56 markets. Critics said the film was playing like superhero movies amongst women. It was the second-biggest March global opening, behind only Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice, the thirteenth-biggest worldwide opening ever and the seventh-biggest for Disney.[88] This includes $21 million from IMAX plays on 1,026 screens, a new record for an IMAX PG title.[89] It surpassed the entire lifetime total of the original film in just six days.[90][91]

text: Beauty and the Beast was the 300th digitally remastered release in IMAX company's history, which began with the re-release of Apollo 13 in 2002. Its robust global debut helped push the company past $6 billion for the first time,[92] and led to analysts believing that the film had a shot of passing $1 billion worldwide from theatrical earnings.[93][94][95][96] On April 12, it passed the $1 billion threshold, becoming the first film of 2017, the fourteenth Disney film, and the twenty-ninth film overall to pass the mark. It became the first film since Rogue One (also a Disney property) in December 2016 to make over a billion dollars, and did so on its 29th day of release.[97][98][99] It is currently the second-highest-grossing film of 2017 (behind Star Wars: The Last Jedi),[100] the highest-grossing March release,[101] the highest-grossing remake of all time,[102] and the sixth-biggest Disney film.[103] Even after inflation adjusted, it is still ahead of the $425 million gross ($760 million in 2017 dollars) of the original film.[102] Deadline Hollywood calculated the net profit of the film to be $414.7 million, when factoring together all expenses and revenues, making it the second-most profitable release of 2017.[104]

text: United States and Canada[edit]

text: In the United States and Canada, Beauty and the Beast topped Fandango's pre-sales and became the fastest-selling family film in the company's history, topping the studio's own animated film Finding Dory released the previous year. Early tracking had the film grossing around $100 million in its opening weekend, with some publications predicting it could reach $130 million.[105][106][107] By the time the film's release was 10 days away, analysts raised projections to as high as $150 million.[108][109] It earned $16.3 million from Thursday previews night, marking the biggest of 2017 (breaking Logan's record), the biggest ever for a Disney live-action film (breaking Maleficent's record), the second-biggest ever for both a G- or PG-rated film (behind the sixth Harry Potter film Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince which also starred Watson), and the third-biggest ever in the month of March (behind Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice and The Hunger Games).[110] An estimated 41% of the gross came from IMAX, 3D and premium large format screenings which began at 6 pm, while the rest—59%—came from regular 2D shows which began at 7 pm.[111] The numbers were considered more impressive given that the film played during a school week.[112]

text: On its opening day, the film made $63.8 million from 4,210 theaters across 9,200 screens, marking the third biggest in the month of March, trailing behind Batman v Superman ($81.5 million) and The Hunger Games ($67 million).[113][114] It was also the biggest opening day ever for a film that wasn't PG-13, displacing the $58 million opening Wednesday of Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince. Its opening day alone (which includes Thursday's previews) almost matched the entire opening weekend of previous Disney live-action films, Maleficent ($69.4 million) and Cinderella ($67.9 million).[115] Unlike all previous four Disney live-action films witnessing a hike on their second day, Saturday, Beauty and the Beast actually fell 2% but, nevertheless, the dip was paltry, and the grosses are so much bigger compared to the other titles.[92] Earning a total of $174.8 million on its opening weekend, it defied all expectations and went on to set numerous notable records.[116] This includes the biggest opening of the year as well as the biggest for the month of March and pre-summer/spring opening, beating Batman v Superman,[117][118] the biggest start ever for a PG title (also for a family film), surpassing Finding Dory which later surpassed by Incredibles 2,[119] the biggest debut of all time for a female-fueled film, ahead of The Hunger Games: Catching Fire,[120] the biggest for a Disney live-action adaptation, ahead of Alice in Wonderland[120] and the biggest musical debut ever, supplanting Pitch Perfect 2. Furthermore, it is also Watson's highest-opening, beating Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows – Part 2 same with Emma Thompson, director Bill Condon's biggest debut ever ahead of The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn – Part 2 and the biggest outside of summer, save for Star Wars: The Force Awakens, not accounting for inflation.[116]

text: It became the forty-third film to debut with over $100 million and the fifteenth film to open above $150 million. Its three-day opening alone surpassed the entire original North American run of the first film ($146 million; before the 3D re-release), instantly becoming the second-biggest film of the year, behind Logan ($184 million), and also the second-highest-grossing musical, behind Grease's $188 million cumulative gross in 1978.[121] Seventy percent of the total ticket sales came from 2D showings signifying that people who don't go to theaters frequently came out in bulk to watch the film. About 26% of the remaining tickets were for 3D. IMAX accounted for 7% ($12.5 million) of the total weekend's gross, setting a new record for a PG title, ahead of Alice in Wonderland ($12.1 million) while PLF repped 11% of the box office.[92] Seventy percent of the film's opening day demographic was female, dropping to 60% through the weekend.[120] According polling service PostTrak, about 84 percent of American parents who saw the film on its opening day said they would "definitely" recommend it for families.[122][123] The film's opening was credited to positive word of mouth from audiences, good reviews from critics, effective marketing which sold the title not just as a family film but also as a romantic drama, the cast's star power (especially Emma Watson), lack of competition, being the first family film since The Lego Batman Movie a month earlier, nostalgia, and the success and ubiquity of the first film and Disney's brand.[122][123]

text: On Monday, its fourth day of release, the film fell precipitously by 72% earning $13.5 million. The steep fall was due to a limited marketplace where only 11% K-12 and 15% colleges were off per ComScore. Nevertheless, it is the second-biggest March Monday, behind Batman v Superman ($15 million).[124] This was followed by the biggest March and pre-summer Tuesday with $17.8 million, a 32% increase from its previous day. The same day, the film passed $200 million in ticket sales.[125] It earned $228.6 million in the first week of release, the sixth-biggest seven-day gross of all time.[126] In its second weekend, the film continued to maintain the top positioning and fell gradually by 48% earning another $90.4 million to register the fourth-biggest second weekend of all time, and the third-biggest for Disney.[127] In terms of percentage drop, its 48% decline is the third-smallest drop for any film opening above $125 million (behind Finding Dory and The Force Awakens).[87] The hold was notable considering how the film was able to fend off three new wide releases: Power Rangers, Life, and CHiPs.[128] As a result, it passed the $300 million threshold becoming the first film of 2017 the pass said mark.[129] The film grossed $45.4 million in its third weekend, finally being overtaken for the top spot by newcomer The Boss Baby ($50.2 million).[130] On April 4, 2017, its nineteenth day of release, it passed the $400 million threshold becoming the first film of 2017 to do so.[131] By its fourth weekend, the film began was playing in 3,969 cinemas, a fall of 241 theaters from its previous weekend. Of those, approximately 1,200 cinemas were sing-along versions. It earned $26.3 million (−48%) and retained second place. By comparison, previous Disney films Moana (−8%) and Frozen (−2%) both witnessed mild percentage declines the weekend their sing-alone versions were released.[132] Its seventh weekend of release was in contemporaneous with another Emma Watson-starring new film The Circle.[133] That weekend, The Circle was number four, while Beauty and the Beast was at number six.[134] By May 28, the film had earned over $500 million in ticket sales becoming the first film of 2017 (until it was later surpassed by The Last Jedi),[135][136] the third female-fueled film (after The Force Awakens and Rogue One: A Star Wars Story followed by Wonder Woman and The Last Jedi) and the eighth overall film in cinematic history to pass the mark.[137][138][139][140]

text: It has already become the biggest March release, dethroning The Hunger Games (2012),[141] the biggest musical film (both animated and live-action),[142] as well as the biggest film of 2017 (alongside The Last Jedi).[143]

text: Other countries[edit]

text: Outside the US and Canada, the film began playing on Thursday, March 16, 2017. Through Sunday, March 19, it had a total international opening of $182.3 million from 55 markets, 44 of which were major territories, far exceeding initial estimations of $100 million and opened at No. 1 in virtually all markets except Vietnam, Turkey, and India. Its launch is the second-biggest for the month of March, behind Batman v Superman ($256.5 million). In IMAX, it recorded the biggest debut for a PG-rated title (although it carried varying certificate amongst different markets) with $8.5 million from 649 screens, the second-biggest for a PG title behind The Jungle Book.[144] In its second weekend, it fell just by 35% earning another $120.6 million and maintaining its first position hold. It added major markets like France and Australia.[145] It topped the international box office for three consecutive weekends[146] before finally being dethroned by Ghost in the Shell and The Boss Baby in its fourth weekend. Despite the fall, the film helped Disney push past the $1 billion thresold internationally for the first time in 2017.[147][99]

text: It scored the biggest opening day of the year in Hong Kong and the Philippines, the biggest March Thursday in Italy ($1 million, also the biggest Disney Thursday debut), the biggest March opening day in Austria, and the second-biggest in Germany ($1.1 million), Disney's biggest March in Denmark, the biggest Disney live-action debut in China ($12.6 million), the UK ($6.2 million), Mexico ($2.4 million) and Brazil ($1.8 million) and the third-biggest in South Korea with $1.2 million, behind only Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End and Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides.[148][149] In terms of opening weekend, the largest debut came from China ($44.8 million), followed by the UK ($24.3 million), Korea ($11.8 million), Mexico ($11.8 million), Australia ($11.1 million), Brazil ($11 million), Germany ($10.7 million), France ($8.4 million), Italy ($7.6 million), Philippines ($6.3 million), Russia ($6 million), and Spain ($5.8 million).[144][145]

text: In the United Kingdom and Ireland, the film recorded the biggest opening ever for a PG-rated film, the biggest Disney live-action opening of all time, the biggest March opening weekend, the biggest opening for a musical (ahead of 2012's Les Misérables), the number one opening of 2017 to date and the fifth-biggest-ever overall with £19.7 million ($24.5 million) from 639 theatres and almost twice that of The Jungle Book (£9.9 million).[150] This included the second-biggest Saturday ever (£7.9 million), only behind Star Wars: The Force Awakens.[151] It witnessed a decline in its second weekend, earning £12.33 million ($15.4 million). Though the film was falling at a faster rate than The Jungle Book, it had already surpassed the said film and its second weekend is the third-biggest ever (behind the two James Bond films Skyfall (2012) and Spectre).[152][145] In India, despite facing heavy competitions from four new Hindi releases, two Tamils films and a Malayalam and a Punjabi release, the film managed to take an occupancy of 15% on its opening day, an impressive feat despite tremendous competitions.[153][154][155] It earned around ₹15 million (US$220,000) nett on its opening day from an estimated 600 screens which is more than the three Hindi releases—Machine, Trapped, and Aa Gaya Hero—combined.[156] Disney reported a total of ₹92.6 million (US$1.3 million) gross for its opening weekend there. It was ahead of all new releases and second overall behind Bollywood film Badrinath Ki Dulhania.[157][158][159] In Russia, despite receiving a restrictive 16 rating, the film managed to deliver a very successful opening with $6 million.[160]

text: In China, expectations were high for the film. The release date was announced on January 24, giving Disney and local distributor China Film Group Corporation ample time—around two months—to market the film nationwide. The release date was strategically chosen to coincide with White Day. Preliminary reports suggested that it could open to $40–60 million in its opening weekend. Largely driven by young women, its opening day pre-sales outpaced that of The Jungle Book.[161] The original film was, however, never widely popular in the country.[162] Although China has occasionally blocked gay-themed content from streaming video services, in this case, Chinese censors decided to leave the gay scene intact. According to local box office tracker Ent Group, the film grossed an estimated $12.1 million on its opening day (Friday), representing 70% of the total receipts. Including previews, it made a total of $14.5 million from 100,000 screenings, which is 43% of all screenings in the country.[163] It climbed to $18.5 million on Saturday (102,700 showings) for a three-day total of $42.6 million, securing 60% of the total marketplace. Disney on the other hand reported a different figure of $44.8 million.[164][165] Either ways, it recorded the second-biggest opening for a Disney live-action film,[162] with $3.4 million coming from 386 IMAX screens.[144] Japan—a huge Disney market—served as the film's final market and opened there on April 21.[145] It debuted with a better-than-expected $12.5 million on its opening weekend helping the film push past the $1.1 billion threshold. An estimated $1.1 million came from IMAX screenings, the fourth-biggest ever in the country.[166][167] The two-day gross was $9.7 million, outstripping Frozen's previous record of $9.5 million.[168] Due to positive reviews, good word-of-mouth and benefitting from the Golden Week, the film saw a 9% increase on its second weekend. The hold was strong enough to fend off newcomer The Fate of the Furious from securing the top spot. The total there is now over $98 million after seven weekends[169][170][171] and is the biggest film release of the year and, overall, the eleventh-biggest of all time.[172] It topped the box office there for eight consecutive weekends.[173][174]

text: The only markets where the film did not top the weekend charts were Vietnam (behind Kong: Skull Island), Turkey (with two local movies and Logan ahead) and India (where Badrinath Ki Dulhania retained No. 1).[144] It topped the box office for four straight weekends in Germany, Korea, Austria, Finland, Poland, Portugal, Brazil, Venezuela, Bolivia, Switzerland and the UK (exclusive of previews).[147][175] In the Philippines, it emerged as the most successful commercial film of all time—both local and foreign—with over $13.5 million.[176] In just five weeks, the film became one of the top 10 highest-grossing film of all time in the United Kingdom and Ireland, ahead of all but one Harry Potter film (Deathly Hallows – Part 2) and all three The Lord of the Rings movies (which also starred Ian McKellen).[177] It is currently the eighth-biggest grosser with £70.1 million ($90 million), overtaking Mamma Mia! to become the biggest musical production ever there.[166][178] The biggest international earning markets following the UK are Japan ($108 million), China ($85.8 million), Brazil ($41.5 million), Korea ($37.5 million), and Australia ($35 million).[173] In Europe alone, the cumulative total is $267 million, which led it to become the second-highest-grossing film in the past year (behind Rogue One: A Star Wars Story).[166][169][179]

text: Critical response[edit]

text: Beauty and the Beast received generally positive reviews, with praise for its ensemble cast, visuals, production values, musical score, songs, and faithfulness to the original film with a few elements of the Broadway musical version, while the designs of the Beast and the servants' household object forms received mixed reviews.[11][12] On review aggregator Rotten Tomatoes, as of April, 2018, the film had an approval rating of 70% based on 324 reviews, with an average rating of 6.7/10. The website's critical consensus read, "With an enchanting cast, beautifully crafted songs, and a painterly eye for detail, Beauty and the Beast offers a faithful yet fresh retelling that honors its beloved source material."[180] On Metacritic, the film has a score of 65 out of 100, based on 47 critics, indicating "generally favorable reviews".[181] In CinemaScore polls, audiences gave the film an average grade of "A" on an A+ to F scale.[182][183]

text: Leslie Felperin of The Hollywood Reporter wrote: "It's a Michelin-triple-starred master class in patisserie skills that transforms the cinematic equivalent of a sugar rush into a kind of crystal-meth-like narcotic high that lasts about two hours." Felperin also praised the performances of Watson and Kline as well the special effects, costume designs and the sets, while commending the inclusion of Gad's character of LeFou as the first LGBT character in Disney.[184] Owen Gleiberman of Variety, in his positive review of the film, wrote: "It's a lovingly crafted movie, and in many ways a good one, but before that it's an enraptured piece of old-is-new nostalgia." Gleiberman compared Steven's character of the Beast to a royal version of the titular character in The Elephant Man and the 1946 version of the Beast in Jean Cocteau's original adaptation.[185] A. O. Scott of The New York Times praised the performances of both Watson and Stevens, and wrote: "It looks good, moves gracefully and leaves a clean and invigorating aftertaste. I almost didn't recognize the flavor: I think the name for it is joy."[186]

text: Likewise, The Washington Post's Ann Hornaday complimented Watson's performance, describing it as "alert and solemn" while noting her singing ability as "serviceable enough to get the job done".[187] Richard Roeper of Chicago Sun-Times awarded the film three and a half stars, lauded the performances of Watson and Thompson which he drew a comparison to Paige O'Hara's and Angela Lansbury's performances in the 1991 animated version while appreciating the performances of the other cast and also pointing out on its usage of the combination of motion capture and CGI technology as a big advantage which he stated: "Almost overwhelmingly lavish, beautifully staged and performed with exquisite timing and grace by the outstanding cast".[188] Mike Ryan of Uproxx praised the cast, production design and the new songs while noting the film doesn't try anything different, saying: "There's certainly nothing that new about this version of Beauty and the Beast (well, except it isn't a cartoon anymore), but it's a good recreation of a classic animated film that should leave most die-hards satisfied."[189] In her A- review, Nancy Churnin of The Dallas Morning News praised the film's emotional and thematic depth, remarking: "There's an emotional authenticity in director Bill Condon's live-action Beauty and the Beast film that helps you rediscover Disney's beloved 1991 animated film and 1994 stage show in fresh, stirring ways."[190] James Berardinelli of ReelViews described the 2017 version as "enthralling".[191]

text: Brian Truitt of USA Today commended the performances of Evans, Gad, McGregor and Thompson alongside Condon's affinity with musicals, the production design, visual effects featured in some of the song numbers including new songs made by the composers Alan Menken and Tim Rice, particularly Evermore which he described the new song with a potential for an Academy Award for Best Original Song.[192] Peter Travers of Rolling Stone rated the film three out of four stars which he deemed it as an "exhilarating gift" while he remarked that "Beauty and the Beast does justice to Disney's animated classic, even if some of the magic is M.I.A (Missing in Action)".[193] Stephanie Zacharek of Time magazine gave a positive review with a description as "Wild, Vivid and Crazy-Beautiful" as she wrote "Nearly everything about Beauty and the Beast is larger than life, to the point that watching it can be a little overwhelming." and added that "it's loaded with feeling, almost like a brash interpretive dance expressing the passion and elation little girls (and some boys, too) must have felt upon seeing the earlier version."[194] The San Francisco Chronicle's Mick LaSalle struck an affirmative tone, calling it one of the joys of 2017, stating that "Beauty and the Beast creates an air of enchantment from its first moments, one that lingers and builds and takes on qualities of warmth and generosity as it goes along" while referring the film as "beautiful" and also praised the film for its emotional and psychological tone as well Steven's motion capture performance.[195]

text: Tim Robey of The Daily Telegraph gave the film four stars out of five and wrote that "It dazzles on this chocolate box of a picture that feels almost greedy yet to make this film work, down to a sugar-rush finale to grasp the nettle and make an out-an-out, bells-and-whistles musical" while he praised the performances of Watson, McKellen, Thompson, McGregor, Evans and Gad.[196] Mark Hughes of Forbes also similarly praised the film which he wrote that "it could revive the story in a faithful but entirely new and unique way elevating the material beyond expectations, establishing itself as a cinematic equal to the original" and also complimented the importance of undertaking a renowned yet problematic masterpiece as well addressing changes in the elements of the story while acknowledging the film's effectiveness in resonating to the audiences.[197] Stephen Whitty of the New York Daily News called it "this year's best new old musical" and "the most magical thing of all" while describing Watson's performance of Belle as "breakthrough".[198]

text: Several critics regarded the film as inferior to its 1991 animated predecessor. David Sims of The Atlantic wrote that the 2017 film "feels particularly egregious, in part, because it's so slavishly devoted to the original; every time it falls short of its predecessor (which is quite often), it's hard not to notice".[199] Michael Phillips of the Chicago Tribune said that the 2017 film "takes our knowledge and our interest in the material for granted. It zips from one number to another, throwing a ton of frenetically edited eye candy at the screen, charmlessly." Phillips wrote that the film featured some "less conspicuously talented" performers who are "stuck doing karaoke, or motion-capture work of middling quality", though he praised Kline's performance as the "best, sweetest thing in the movie; he brings a sense of calm, droll authority".[200] Peter Bradshaw of The Guardian praised Watson's performance and wrote that the film was "lit in that fascinatingly artificial honey-glow light, and it runs smoothly on rails—the kind of rails that bring in and out the stage sets for the lucrative Broadway touring version." In the same newspaper, Wendy Ide criticized the film as "ornate to the point of desperation" in its attempt to emulate the animated film.[201][202]

text: Chris Nashawaty of Entertainment Weekly gave the film a B-, writing that while the film looks "exceptionally great", he said the new songs were "not transporting". He felt the film needed more life and depth, but praised Watson's and Steven's performances as the "film's stronger elements".[203] Dana Schwartz of The New York Observer felt that some of the characters, such as Gaston and the Beast, had been watered down from the 1991 film, and that the additional backstory elements failed to "advance the plot or theme in any meaningful way" while adding considerable bloat. Schwartz considered the singing of the cast to be adequate but felt that their voices should have been dubbed over, especially for the complex songs.[204]

text: Accolades and awards[edit]

text:
Award

Date of ceremony

Category

Recipient(s) and nominee(s)

Result

Ref.

Academy Awards

March 4, 2018

Best Production Design

Sarah Greenwood and Katie Spencer

Nominated

[205]

Best Costume Design

Jacqueline Durran

Nominated

Art Directors Guild Awards

January 27, 2018

Excellence in Production Design for a Fantasy Film

Sarah Greenwood

Nominated

[206]

British Academy Film Awards

February 18, 2018

Best Production Design

Sarah Greenwood and Katie Spencer

Nominated

[207]

Best Costume Design

Jacqueline Durran

Nominated

Casting Society of America

January 18, 2018

Big Budget – Comedy

Lucy Bevan, Bernard Telsey and Tiffany Little Canfield

Nominated

[208]

Chicago Film Critics Association

December 12, 2017

Best Art Direction

Sarah Greenwood

Nominated

[209][210]

Costume Designers Guild Awards

February 20, 2018

Excellence in Fantasy Film

Jacqueline Durran

Nominated

[211]

Critics' Choice Movie Awards

January 11, 2018

Best Art Direction

Sarah Greenwood and Katie Spencer

Nominated

[212]

Best Costume Design

Jacqueline Durran

Nominated

Best Hair & Makeup

Beauty and the Beast

Nominated

Best Song

"Evermore"

Nominated

Empire Awards

March 18, 2018

Best Actress

Emma Watson

Nominated

[213][214]

Best Soundtrack

Beauty and the Beast

Nominated

Best Make-up and Hairstyling

Won

Golden Trailer Awards

June 6, 2017

Best Animation/Family

Nominated

[215]

Best Original Score

Nominated

Best Animation/Family TV Spot

Nominated

Best Fantasy Adventure TV Spot

Nominated

Guild of Music Supervisors Awards

February 8, 2018

Best Music Supervision for Film: Budgeted Over 25 Million Dollars

Matt Sullivan

Nominated

[216]

Hollywood Film Awards

November 5, 2017

Costume Design Award

Jacqueline Durran[a]

Won

[217]

Make-Up & Hair Styling Award

Jenny Shircore

Won

Hollywood Music in Media Awards

November 16, 2017

Best Original Song – Animated Film

"How Does a Moment Last Forever" – Alan Menken and Tim Rice

Nominated

[218][219]

Best Original Song – Sci-Fi, Fantasy, Horror Film

Won

"Evermore" – Alan Menken and Tim Rice

Nominated

Best Soundtrack Album

Beauty and the Beast

Nominated

Hollywood Post Alliance

Outstanding Color Grading – Feature Film

Stefan Sonnenfeld

Nominated

[220][221]

Outstanding Visual Effects – Feature Film

Kyle McCulloch, Glen Pratt, Richard Hoover, Dale Newton, Neil Weatherley and Framestore

Nominated

Houston Film Critics Society

January 6, 2018

Best Original Song

"Evermore" – Alan Menken and Tim Rice

Nominated

[222]

Make-Up Artists and Hair Stylists Guild

February 24, 2018

Feature Motion Picture: Best Period and/or Character Hair

Jenny Shircore, Marc Pilcher and Charlotte Hayward

Nominated

[223]

MTV Movie & TV Awards

May 7, 2017

Movie of the Year

Beauty and the Beast

Won

[224]

Best Actor in a Movie

Emma Watson

Won

Best Kiss

Emma Watson and Dan Stevens

Nominated

Best Duo

Josh Gad and Luke Evans

Nominated

NAACP Image Awards

January 15, 2018

Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Motion Picture

Audra McDonald

Nominated

[225]

Nickelodeon Kids' Choice Awards

March 24, 2018

Favorite Movie

Beauty and the Beast

Nominated

[226]

Favorite Movie Actress

Emma Watson

Nominated

Publicists Guild Awards

March 2, 2018

Motion Picture

Beauty and the Beast

Nominated

[227][228]

San Diego Film Critics Society

December 11, 2017

Best Production Design

Sarah Greenwood and Katie Spencer

Nominated

[229][230]

Best Visual Effects

Beauty and the Beast

Runner-up[b]

Best Costume Design

Jacqueline Durran

Won[c]

Best Use of Music

Beauty and the Beast

Nominated

Satellite Awards

February 10, 2018

Best Costume Design

Jacqueline Durran

Nominated

[231]

Saturn Awards

June 27, 2018

Best Fantasy Film

Beauty and the Beast

Nominated

[232]

Best Actress

Emma Watson

Nominated

Best Production Design

Sarah Greenwood

Nominated

Best Costume Design

Jacqueline Durran

Won

Seattle Film Critics Society

December 18, 2017

Best Costume Design

Jacqueline Durran

Nominated

[233][234]

St. Louis Film Critics Association

December 17, 2017

Best Production Design

Sarah Greenwood

Nominated

[235]

Best Visual Effects

Beauty and the Beast

Nominated

Teen Choice Awards

August 13, 2017

Choice Movie: Fantasy

Won

[236][237]

Choice Movie: Fantasy Actor

Dan Stevens

Nominated

Choice Movie: Fantasy Actress

Emma Watson

Won

Choice Movie Villain

Luke Evans

Won

Choice Movie Ship

Emma Watson and Dan Stevens

Won

Choice Liplock

Won

Choice Scene Stealer

Josh Gad

Nominated

Choice Hissy Fit

Luke Evans

Nominated

Dan Stevens

Nominated

Visual Effects Society Awards

February 13, 2018

Outstanding Virtual Cinematography in a Photoreal Project

Shannon Justison, Casey Schatz, Neil Weatherley and Claire Michaud for "Be Our Guest"

Nominated

[238]

Washington D.C. Area Film Critics Association

December 8, 2017

Best Motion Capture Performance

Dan Stevens

Nominated

[239]

Best Production Design

Sarah Greenwood and Katie Spencer

Nominated

Women Film Critics Circle

December 17, 2017

Best Family Film

Beauty and the Beast

Nominated

[240][241]

text: Controversies[edit]

text: Gay character[edit]

text: Controversy erupted after director Bill Condon said there was a "gay moment" in the film, when LeFou briefly waltzes with Stanley, one of Gaston's friends.[242] Afterwards in an interview with Vulture.com, Condon stated, "Can I just say, I'm sort of sick of this. Because you've seen the movie—it's such a tiny thing, and it's been overblown." Condon also added that Beauty and the Beast features much more diversity than just the highly talked-about LeFou: "That was so important. We have interracial couples—this is a celebration of everybody's individuality, and that's what’s exciting about it.”[243] GLAAD president and CEO Sarah Kate Ellis praised the move stating, "It is a small moment in the film, but it is a huge leap forward for the film industry."[244]

text: In Russia, Vitaly Milonov agitated the culture minister for banning the film,[245] but instead it was given a 16+ rating (children under the age of 16 can only be admitted to see it in theaters with accompanying adults).[246] Additionally, a theater in Henagar, Alabama did not screen the film because of the subplot.[247] In Malaysia, the Film Censorship Board insisted the "gay moment" scene be cut, prompting an indefinite postponement of its release by Disney, followed by their decision to withdraw it completely if it could not be released uncensored.[248][249][250] The studio moved the release date to March 30, to allow more time for Malaysia's censor board to make a decision on whether or not to release the film without changes.[251] The distributors and producers then submitted an appeal to the Film Appeal Committee of Malaysia, which allowed the film to be released without any cuts and a P13 rating on the grounds that "the gay element was minor and did not affect the positive elements featured in the film".[252][253] In Kuwait, the movie was withdrawn from cinemas by National Cinema Company which owns most of the cinemas in the country. A board member of the company stated that the Ministry of Information's censorship department had requested it to stop its screening and edit it for things deemed offensive by it.[254]

text: The film also received criticism over its portrayal of LeFou, as many felt that it relied on stereotypes[255] and was used as a way of teasing LGBT+ viewers without providing adequate representation.[256] LeFou's status as a sidekick to the main villain brought about criticism over Disney's queercoding of villains in the past, and his infatuation with Gaston was seen as relying on a stereotype of gay men being predatory towards straight men.[257] Furthermore, the only gay interaction LeFou has is a three-second clip of him dancing with another man at the end of the film. Many saw this as Disney cheating its LGBT+ audiences.[258]

text: Belle and the Beast's relationship[edit]

text: Disney has sought to portray Belle as an empowered young woman,[259] but a debate questioning whether it is possible for a captor to fall in love with their prisoner, and whether this is a problematic theme, has resulted.[260] As was the case with the original animated film, one argument is that Belle suffers from Stockholm syndrome (a condition that causes hostages to develop a psychological alliance with their captors as a survival strategy during captivity). Emma Watson studied whether Belle is trapped in an abusive relationship with the Beast before signing on and concluded that she does not think the criticism fits this version of the folk tale.[261][262] Watson described Stockholm Syndrome as "where a prisoner will take on the characteristics of and fall in love with the captor. Belle actively argues and disagrees with [Beast] constantly. She has none of the characteristics of someone with Stockholm Syndrome because she keeps her independence, she keeps that freedom of thought", also adding that Belle defiantly "gives as good as she gets" before forming a friendship and romance with the Beast.[263]

text: Psychiatrist Frank Ochberg, who coined the term "Stockholm syndrome", said he does not think Belle exhibits the trauma symptoms of prisoners suffering from the syndrome because she does not go through a period of feeling that she is going to die.[264] Some therapists, while acknowledging that the pairing's relationship does not meet the clinical definition of Stockholm syndrome, argue that the relationship depicted is dysfunctional and abusive and does not model healthy romantic relationships for young viewers.[265][266] Constance Grady of Vox writes that Jeanne-Marie Leprince de Beaumont's Beauty and the Beast was a fairy tale originally written to prepare young girls in 18th-century France for arranged marriages, and that the power disparity is amplified in the Disney version.[267] Anna Menta of Elite Daily argued that the Beast does not apologize to Belle for imprisoning, hurting, or manipulating her, and his treatment of Belle is not painted as wrong.[268]

text: Notes[edit]

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Jump up ^ Also credited for Darkest Hour.

Jump up ^ Tied with Dunkirk.

Jump up ^ Tied with Mark Bridges for Phantom Thread.

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document_title: List of high courts in India

question_text: andaman and nicobar comes under the jurisdiction of

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text: List of high courts in India

text: High courts[edit]

text: The Madras High Court in Chennai, Bombay High Court in Mumbai, Calcutta High Court in Kolkata and Allahabad High Court in Allahabad are the oldest four high courts in India.

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text: The following are the 24 high courts in India sorted by name, year established, Act by which it was established, jurisdiction, principal seat (headquarters), permanent benches (subordinate to the principal seat), circuit benches (functional a few days in a month/year), the maximum number of judges sanctioned and the presiding chief justice of the high court.

text:
Court name

Established

Act established

Jurisdiction

Principal seat

Bench

Judges

Chief justice

Allahabad High Court[3]

11 June 1866

Indian High Courts Act 1861

Uttar Pradesh

Allahabad

Lucknow[A]

109

D. B. Bhosale

Bombay High Court

14 August 1862

Indian High Courts Act 1861

Goa, Dadra and Nagar Haveli, Daman and Diu, Maharashtra

Mumbai

Aurangabad, Nagpur, Panaji[A]

73

Vijaya Kamlesh Tahilramani (Acting)

Calcutta High Court

2 July 1862

Indian High Courts Act 1861

Andaman and Nicobar Islands, West Bengal

Kolkata

Port Blair[B]

33

Jyotirmay Bhattacharya(Acting)

Chhattisgarh High Court

1 November 2000

Madhya Pradesh Reorganisation Act, 2000

Chhattisgarh

Bilaspur

—

12

Mr. Justice Pritinker Diwaker

Delhi High Court[4]

31 October 1966

Delhi High Court Act, 1966

National Capital Territory of Delhi

New Delhi

—

37

Gita Mittal (Acting)

Gauhati High Court[5]

1 March 1948

Government of India Act, 1935

Arunachal Pradesh, Assam, Mizoram, Nagaland

Guwahati

Aizwal,[A] Itanagar,[A] Kohima[A]

18

Ajit Singh

Gujarat High Court

1 May 1960

Bombay Reorgansisation Act, 1960

Gujarat

Ahmedabad

—

31

R. Subhash Reddy

High Court of Judicature at Hyderabad[6]

5 July 1954

Andhra State Act, 1953

Andhra Pradesh, Telangana

Hyderabad

—

31

T. B. Radhakrishnan(Acting)[7][8]

Himachal Pradesh High Court

1971

State of Himachal Pradesh Act, 1970

Himachal Pradesh

Shimla

—

08

Sanjay Karol (Acting)

Jammu and Kashmir High Court

28 August 1928

Letters Patent issued by then Maharaja of Kashmir

Jammu and Kashmir

Srinagar/Jammu[C]

—

11

Badar Durrez Ahmed

Jharkhand High Court

15 November 2000

Bihar Reorganisation Act, 2000

Jharkhand

Ranchi

—

14

Dhirubhai Naranbhai Patel(Acting)

Karnataka High Court[9]

1884

Mysore High Court Act, 1884

Karnataka

Bangalore

Dharwad,[A] Gulbarga[A]

25

Dinesh Maheshwari

Kerala High Court[10]

1956

States Reorganisation Act, 1956

Kerala, Lakshadweep

Kochi

—

37

Antony Dominic(Acting)

Madhya Pradesh High Court[11]

2 January 1936

Government of India Act, 1935

Madhya Pradesh

Jabalpur

Gwalior,[A] Indore[A]

34

Hemant Gupta

Madras High Court

15 August 1862

Indian High Courts Act 1861

Pondicherry, Tamil Nadu

Chennai

Madurai[A]

60

Huluvadi G. Ramesh

Manipur High Court

25 March 2013

North-Eastern Areas (Reorganisation) and Other Related Laws (Amendment) Act, 2012

Manipur

Imphal

—

02

Ramalingam Sudhakar

Meghalaya High Court

23 March 2013

North-Eastern Areas (Reorganisation) and Other Related Laws (Amendment) Act, 2012

Meghalaya

Shillong

—

02

Dinesh Maheshwari

Orissa High Court[12]

3 April 1948

Orissa High Court Ordinance, 1948

Odisha

Cuttack

—

17

Vineet Saran

Patna High Court

2 September 1916

Letters Patent issued by the Crown

Bihar

Patna

—

33

Rajendra Menon

Punjab and Haryana High Court[13]

15 August 1947

Punjab High Court Ordinance, 1947

Chandigarh, Haryana, Punjab

Chandigarh

—

50

Shiavax Jal Vazifdar

Rajasthan High Court

21 June 1949

Rajasthan High Court Ordinance, 1949

Rajasthan

Jodhpur

Jaipur[A]

35

Pradeep Nandrajog

Sikkim High Court

16 May 1975

The 36th Amendment to the Indian Constitution

Sikkim

Gangtok

—

03

Satish K. Agnihotri

Tripura High Court

26 March 2013

North-Eastern Areas (Reorganisation) and Other Related Laws (Amendment) Act, 2012

Tripura

Agartala

—

02

Tinlianthang Vaiphei

Uttarakhand High Court[14]

9 November 2000

Uttar Pradesh Reorganisation Act, 2000

Uttarakhand

Nainital

—

10

K. M. Joseph

Notes

^ Jump up to: a b c d e f g h i j k Permanent bench.

Jump up ^ Circuit bench.

Jump up ^ Srinagar is the summer capital; Jammu is the winter capital.

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text: High courts by states/union territories[edit]

text:
State or UT

High Court

Principal seat

Bench(es)

Official website

Andaman and Nicobar Islands

Calcutta High Court

Kolkata

Port Blair[a]

https://web.archive.org/web/20070306142046/http://calcuttahighcourt.nic.in/

Arunachal Pradesh

Gauhati High Court

—

Itanagar[b]

http://ghcitanagar.gov.in/

Andhra Pradesh

High Court of Judicature at Hyderabad

Hyderabad

—

http://hc.tap.nic.in/

Assam

Gauhati High Court

Guwahati

—

http://ghconline.nic.in/

Bihar

Patna High Court

Patna

—

https://web.archive.org/web/20150419064726/http://patnahighcourt.bih.nic.in/

Chandigarh

Punjab and Haryana High Court

Chandigarh

—

http://highcourtchd.gov.in/

Chhattisgarh

Chhattisgarh High Court

Bilaspur

—

http://highcourt.cg.gov.in/

Dadra and Nagar Haveli

Bombay High Court

Mumbai

—

https://web.archive.org/web/20080130075145/http://bombayhighcourt.nic.in/

Daman and Diu

Bombay High Court

Mumbai

—

https://web.archive.org/web/20080130075145/http://bombayhighcourt.nic.in/

National Capital Territory of Delhi

Delhi High Court

New Delhi

—

http://delhihighcourt.nic.in/

Goa

Bombay High Court

—

Panaji[b]

http://www.hcbombayatgoa.nic.in/

Gujarat

Gujarat High Court

Ahmedabad

—

http://gujarathighcourt.nic.in

Haryana

Punjab and Haryana High Court

Chandigarh

—

http://highcourtchd.gov.in/

Himachal Pradesh

Himachal Pradesh High Court

Shimla

—

http://www.hphighcourt.nic.in/

Jammu and Kashmir

Jammu & Kashmir High Court

Srinagar/Jammu[c]

—

http://jkhighcourt.nic.in/

Jharkhand

Jharkhand High Court

Ranchi

—

http://www.jharkhandhighcourt.nic.in/

Karnataka

Karnataka High Court

Bengaluru

Dharwad[b] and Kalaburagi[b]

http://karnatakajudiciary.kar.nic.in/ http://hck.gov.in/

Kerala

Kerala High Court

Ernakulam

—

http://highcourtofkerala.nic.in/

Lakshadweep

Kerala High Court

Ernakulam

—

http://highcourtofkerala.nic.in/

Madhya Pradesh

Madhya Pradesh High Court

Jabalpur

Gwalior[b] and Indore[b]

http://www.mphc.in/

Maharashtra

Bombay High Court

Mumbai

Aurangabad[b] and Nagpur[b]

https://web.archive.org/web/20080130075145/http://bombayhighcourt.nic.in/

Manipur

Manipur High Court

Imphal

—

http://hcmimphal.nic.in/

Meghalaya

Meghalaya High Court

Shillong

—

http://meghalayahighcourt.nic.in/

Mizoram

Gauhati High Court

—

Aizawl[b]

http://ghcazlbench.nic.in/

Nagaland

Gauhati High Court

—

Kohima[b]

http://kohimahighcourt.gov.in/

Odisha

Odisha High Court

Cuttack

—

http://www.orissahighcourt.nic.in/

Puducherry

Madras High Court

Chennai

—

http://www.hcmadras.tn.nic.in/

Punjab

Punjab and Haryana High Court

Chandigarh

—

http://highcourtchd.gov.in/

Rajasthan

Rajasthan High Court

Jodhpur

Jaipur[b]

http://hcraj.nic.in/

Sikkim

Sikkim High Court

Gangtok

—

http://www.highcourtofsikkim.nic.in/

Tamil Nadu

Madras High Court

Chennai

Madurai[b]

http://www.hcmadras.tn.nic.in/

Telangana

High Court of Judicature at Hyderabad

Hyderabad

—

http://hc.tap.nic.in/

Tripura

Tripura High Court

Agartala

—

http://thc.nic.in/

Uttar Pradesh

Allahabad High Court

Allahabad

Lucknow[b]

http://www.allahabadhighcourt.in/

Uttarakhand

Uttarakhand High Court

Nainital

—

http://highcourtofuttarakhand.gov.in/

West Bengal

Calcutta High Court

Kolkata

—

https://web.archive.org/web/20070306142046/http://calcuttahighcourt.nic.in/

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Jump up ^ Srinagar is the summer capital; Jammu is the winter capital.

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District courts
District munsiff courts
Courts of judicial magistrates of first class
Courts of judicial magistrates of second class
E-courts

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text: Notes and citations[edit]

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Jump up ^ "Indian Courts". Archived from the original on 21 July 2011. Retrieved 21 September 2012.

Jump up ^ Thakur, Pradeep (March 22, 2016). "HCs taking 3 years on average to decide cases: Study". The Times of India. New Delhi. OCLC 23379369. Retrieved March 9, 2018.

Jump up ^ Originally established at Agra, it shifted to Allahabad in 1875.

Jump up ^ Lahore High Court was established at Lahore on 21 March 1919 and had jurisdiction over undivided Punjab and Delhi. On 11 August 1947 a separate Punjab High Court was created with its seat at Simla under the Indian Independence Act, 1947, which had jurisdiction over Punjab, Delhi and present Himachal Pradesh and Haryana. In 1966 after the reorganisation of the State of Punjab, the High Court was designated as the Punjab and Haryana High Court at Chandigarh. The Delhi High Court was established on 31 October 1966 with its seat at Simla which was later shifted to New Delhi in 1971 after the Himachal Pradesh was granted the statehood with its own High Court at Simla.

Jump up ^ Originally known as the High Court of Assam and Nagaland, it was renamed as Gauhati High Court in 1971.

Jump up ^ Originally known as Andhra Pradesh High Court, it was renamed High Court of Judicature at Hyderabad in 2014.

Jump up ^ "THE HON'BLE THE ACTING CHIEF JUSTICE RAMESH RANGANATHAN". hc.tap.nic.in. Retrieved 2016-09-14.

Jump up ^ "Justice Ranganathan is new acting Chief Justice of Hyerabad High Court - Times of India". Retrieved 2016-09-14.

Jump up ^ Originally known as Mysore High Court, it was renamed as Karnataka High Court in 1974.

Jump up ^ The High Court of Travancore-Cochin was inaugurated at Kochi on 7 July 1949. The state of Kerala was formed by the States Reorganisation Act, 1956. That Act abolished the Travancore-Cochin High Court and created the Kerala High Court. The Act also extended the jurisdiction of the Kerala High Court to Lakshadweep.

Jump up ^ Under the Government of India Act, 1935, a High Court was established at Nagpur for the Central Provinces by Letters Patent dated 2 January 1936. After the reorganization of states, this High Court was moved to Jabalpur in 1956.

Jump up ^ Though the State of Orissa was renamed Odisha in March 2011, the Odissa High Court retained its original name. There has been an ongoing discussion on how to legally change the nomenclature of the High Courts to reflect the renaming of states, but so far none has changed.

Jump up ^ Originally known as Punjab High Court, it was renamed as Punjab and Haryana High Court in 1966.

Jump up ^ Originally known as Uttaranchal High Court, it was renamed as Uttarakhand High Court in 2007.


document_title: Captain Ron

question_text: what was the name of the boat in captain ron

text: Captain Ron

text: Plot[edit]

text: Martin Harvey is a middle-aged office worker who lives in Chicago with his wife, Katherine, 16-year-old daughter, Caroline, and 11-year-old son, Ben. When he learns his recently deceased uncle has bequeathed him a 60' yacht once owned by Clark Gable, he decides to take his family to the island of St. Pomme de Terre ("Saint Potato") to retrieve it so he can sell it. Katherine resists the idea, but agrees after Caroline announces she has just become engaged.

text: When the Harveys arrive at the island, they discover that the yacht, the Wanderer, is in terrible condition. Upon hearing this, the yacht broker cancels his plan to send an experienced captain to help them sail it to Miami, and instead hires a local sailor, Captain Ron Rico, a one-eyed man with a very laid back attitude, and Navy veteran who claims to have piloted the USS Saratoga. He launches immediately when he sees the car he arrived in roll off the dock and sink. Its owner arrives at the dock and shoots at him.

text: Captain Ron takes Ben's money in a game of Monopoly, giving him beer to drink and charging him for it later, but shows loyalty to Martin, who he refers to as "Boss". Martin, who doesn't like him, calls him "Moron" in his diary, and believes that he doesn't know what he's doing.

text: The Harveys decide to stop off in the Caribbean, but learn that Captain Ron doesn't know how to navigate. While on a random island, Martin decides to go on a nature hike, but runs into guerrillas led by General Armando. Captain Ron bargains for Martin's freedom by giving them a lift to the next island, and receiving some firearms in return to fight off pirates. This angers Martin, as he declares there will be no firearms on his yacht and tosses them overboard, before realizing that without them, he is going to have to give the guerrillas a lift.

text: In the yacht's cabin, Katherine shows Martin the initials of Clark Gable and Carole Lombard marked on the bedpost. They are so excited that they share their feelings and have passionate sex.

text: When they arrive at their next destination, San Juan, Puerto Rico, Martin and Katherine are arrested for smuggling the guerrillas. Caroline and Ben party with the locals and Captain Ron, which ends with Caroline getting a tattoo, Ben breaking his glasses, and Captain Ron losing his glass eye. Martin and Katherine are released from jail, but forced to leave that night. Martin decides to leave Captain Ron behind and they encounter pirates who steal the yacht, and are stuck floating in a raft.

text: They land in Cuba and discover the yacht there. The pirates find them, but with the help of Captain Ron, they are able to escape with the yacht. Captain Ron learns that they underrate Martin, and he decides to play hurt, forcing Martin to take control of the escape. Using the skills that Captain Ron taught them, they are able to get the sails up after the engine breaks from lack of oil to distance themselves from the pirates. The United States Coast Guard fires once at the pirates, scaring them away and creates a safe passage to Miami.

text: They arrive in Miami and part ways with Captain Ron. As they sail to their destination, they decide to turn the yacht around and keep it. In the final scene, Captain Ron appears to have cleaned up his appearance and has quickly taken on a new role as a captain for wealthy couple and their small motorboat. Notably he is no longer wearing an eye patch. This has led many to believe that Captain Ron is in fact a con man who has assumed many different appearances across his travels. What exactly he gained from the Harvey Family Con, remains something of a mystery.

text: Cast[edit]

text:
Kurt Russell as Captain Ron Rico
Martin Short as Martin Harvey
Mary Kay Place as Katherine Harvey
Meadow Sisto as Caroline Harvey
Benjamin Salisbury as Ben Harvey
Sunshine Logroño as General Armando (as Emannuel Logrono)
Jorge Luis Ramos as General Armando's Translator
J.A. Preston as Magistrate
Tanya Soler as Angeline
Raúl Estela as Roscoe
Jainardo Batista as Mamba
Dan Butler as Bill Zachery
Tom McGowan as Bill
Paul Anka as Yacht Broker
Roselyn Sanchez as Clarisse
C.M. Talkington (credited as Clement Talkington) as the Bicycle Messenger

text: Release[edit]

text: Box office[edit]

text: The film grossed $22.5 million, against its budget of $24 million.[2]

text: Critical reception[edit]

text: The film premiered on September 18, 1992. It was panned for putting Russell in the comedic role and Short in the serious one,[3][4] while others say that Russell's fun performance as the irresponsible and sometimes unsympathetic yacht captain carried it through its flaws.[5][6] It has a score of 24% on Rotten Tomatoes based on 21 reviews with an average rating of 4.2 out of 10.[7] It has long, however, found a niche among sailors.[8]

text: Salisbury and Sisto were each nominated for a Young Artist Award.

text: Popularity resurgence[edit]

text: Given the dearth of nautical comedies, there was resurgence in interest in the film during the mid 2010s.[9] This has led to further analysis of the controversial ending.


document_title: Sabrina the Teenage Witch (TV series)

question_text: when does harvey return to sabrina the teenage witch

text: Sabrina the Teenage Witch (TV series)

text: History and production[edit]

text: The unofficial pilot of the series was the 1996 TV movie Sabrina the Teenage Witch in April.[5] The movie, produced by Viacom and Hartbreak Films and aired on Showtime, starred Melissa Joan Hart as the title character, Sabrina Sawyer, and Charlene Fernetz and Sherry Miller as Sabrina's aunts Zelda and Hilda, respectively. When the television series debuted on ABC later that year, Hart became Sabrina Spellman, and Caroline Rhea and Beth Broderick replaced Fernetz and Miller. In 2000, the show was dropped by ABC and picked up by The WB. When viewership began to wane, the show was canceled after seven seasons.[6]

text: The television series was produced by Hartbreak Films and Viacom Productions with Finishing the Hat Productions being there for season 1 only. Later it was syndicated through Paramount Domestic Television on reruns. Paramount Network Television absorbed Viacom Productions in 2004, and two years later, Paramount's TV operations were renamed to CBS Paramount Television (now CBS Television Studios), whose name is seen on the season 1, 2, and 3 DVDs. Then in 2007, the syndication arm was renamed from CBS Paramount Domestic Television to CBS Television Distribution, whose name is on the season 4, 5, 6, and 7 DVDs. The official copyright holder for the series (as with all series originally produced by Viacom Productions) is CBS Studios Productions, LLC.

text: Opening sequence[edit]

text: The opening titles of the first three seasons shows Sabrina in front of a mirror posing with four different costumes and outfits as the cast members' names quickly flash on the bottom of the screen. The first three outfits are always the same, but the fourth one changes from episode to episode. At the end, Sabrina would say something that is related to the last costume (often a pun or a joke related to the costume or the content of the episode), and then magically disappear from head on down.

text: The opening sequence for the fourth season is completely redone, featuring a completely new theme and the show's main characters, starting with Sabrina, floating in bubbles while their names are displayed in gold letters and a voice chants "Secret" in the background.

text: The opening credits for the final three seasons are accompanied by a new vocal theme song and feature Sabrina at various locations around Boston: Harvard Bridge, Boston Common, Union Oyster House, Massachusetts State House, Quincy Market, Newbury Street, Harvard University, Tufts University, and Beacon Hill. In the credits of seasons five and six, after leaving Newbury Comics on Newbury Street, Sabrina walks down a flight of stairs and computer graphics morph Sabrina into her room, lying on her bed next to Salem. In the final season, however, the computer graphics morph Sabrina arriving at Scorch. Upon pushing the door open, she is revealed to be walking into her house to greet Roxie, Morgan, and Salem.

text: The actual house photographed and filmed to depict Spellman Manor is a Victorian mansion located at 64 E. Main St. in Freehold, New Jersey.[7] The exteriors for Westbridge High School, which Sabrina attended, were Dwight Morrow High School in Englewood, New Jersey.

text: Departures[edit]

text: The show went through many cast changes, the first major change being the unexplained departure of Sabrina's best friend Jenny Kelly (Michelle Beaudoin) at the end of the first season.

text: At the beginning of the fourth season, Valerie departs the show permanently along with Libby. Valerie's character moves away to Alaska with her family, while Libby transfers to a boarding school.

text: When the series finished its fourth season, several secondary characters left the show, including Martin Mull and Nate Richert. Richert, who played Sabrina's boyfriend Harvey since the first season, was cut in order to give the show a more "grown-up look" as Sabrina was about to attend college. The decision was later rescinded, and Richert appeared in three episodes of season five and then returned as a series regular in season six and seven.

text: After the series' sixth season, Caroline Rhea and Beth Broderick, who portrayed Sabrina's aunts from the show's premiere, decided to leave the show. When the character of Sabrina started to attend college, the role of her aunts became less important. Broderick felt that the role of Zelda had nothing more to offer, while Rhea landed her own syndicated talk show, The Caroline Rhea Show.

text: Trevor Lissauer, who played Sabrina's housemate Miles, left the show after appearing in seasons five and six. Producers felt that his character wasn't well received by fans and also had to make some budget cuts for the show's seventh and final season. Miles was never properly written out, leaving open what really happened to him.

text: Sabrina's love interest Josh, played by David Lascher, left for Prague after appearing from season four to six. Lascher reportedly wanted to pursue other projects. In order to fill the void, producers brought in Aaron, played by Dylan Neal, as Sabrina's love interest in the show's final season.

text: Plot and premise[edit]

text: The show chronicles the adventures of Sabrina Spellman (played by Melissa Joan Hart), a girl who discovers on her sixteenth birthday that she is a witch. As a novice witch, her spells often go awry. Her aunts Hilda and Zelda Spellman (played by Caroline Rhea and Beth Broderick, respectively, until 2002) counsel her on the proper use of her magic and give her moral advice. Additionally, Hilda and Zelda must take care of Salem Saberhagen (voiced by Nick Bakay), a witch turned into a cat for trying to take over the world. Sabrina's basic premise and "genial loopiness" earned the show comparisons to the 1960s television series Bewitched.[8][9][10]

text: The show included contemporary pop cultural references, with Sabrina often saying she liked Britney Spears and No Doubt. It also mentioned human history alongside witches, such as the Salem witch hunt, which Zelda tells Sabrina was not a hunt for real witches. Hilda mentions to Sabrina in Episode 1 that "For two months a bunny ruled all of England" causing the witches council to turn back time, as if to say mortals are ignorant at the most. One episode also suggests that Jerry Springer is a witch when he hosts The Jerry Springer Show in the other realm.

text: Whereas the comic book series was set in the fictional Riverdale, the TV show was set in fictional Boston suburb of Westbridge, Massachusetts. The Spellmans' house is located at 133 Collins Road.[11]

text: Ultimately, the show covered a span of seven years over seven seasons, though each season was not a year.[12]

text: Plot summary[edit]

text: Season 1 (1996–1997)[edit]

text: The pilot episode opens with Sabrina asleep on her 16th birthday, levitating above her bed. In the morning, her aunts reveal to her that she is a witch, but Sabrina does not believe them until she has a magical talk with her father from inside a book, where her father reveals that he is a witch and her mother is mortal. It is also revealed that Sabrina cannot see her mother, who is in Peru for two years, or her mother will be transformed into a ball of wax. After a rough day at school, Sabrina accidentally turns Libby Chesler, the most popular girl in school, into a pineapple. Fearing that she will appear "weird" to her crush, Harvey Kinkle, Sabrina asks the Witches Council to let her relive that day. The first season follows Sabrina as she tries to keep the balance between being a teenager and having magical powers. Sabrina's friend Jenny Kelley and her teacher, Mr. Pool, both exit the series without explanation after this season.

text: Season 2 (1997–1998)[edit]

text: At the beginning of the second season, Sabrina turns seventeen and learns that she must earn her witch's license or otherwise lose her magic. However, she neglects her aunts' warnings to study for the test to obtain the license and consequently fails it. She then has to attend witch boot camp to earn the chance to take a makeup test. She passes the makeup test, but only receives a learner's permit. Her aunts explain that she will be able to earn her license when she turns eighteen ("when she can pay for the insurance") and that she will be tested throughout the year by a Quizmaster, a witch whose job is to instruct witches earning their licenses. Also introduced during the second season are Sabrina's neurotic friend Valerie and the new school vice principal Mr. Kraft, who finds Sabrina to be very odd and has a crush on Hilda.

text: Season 3 (1998–1999)[edit]

text: At the beginning of the third season, Sabrina earns her license, but then learns that in order to use her license, she must solve her family's secret. Throughout the season, family members visit her and provide clues. At the end of the season, she solves the family secret ("Every member of the Spellman family is born with a twin"). Both Valerie and Libby exit the series after the end of the third season.

text: Season 4 (1999–2000)[edit]

text: At the beginning of the fourth season, Sabrina is assigned to be a mentor, which is like a Quizmaster, except "Quizmasters get paid".[13] Sabrina's charge is Dreama, a witch newly immigrated from the Other Realm. A new student, Brad Alcero, transfers to Sabrina's school. Because Brad has a witch-hunter gene (which allows him to turn a witch into a mouse if the witch reveals his/her magic), Sabrina must keep herself and Dreama from using magic in front of Brad. Also, Sabrina begins working at Bean There, Brewed That, a coffee shop, where she meets and is attracted to Josh (played by David Lascher), a college student who is the manager of the shop, which leads to her kissing him and thus cheating on Harvey, who ends their relationship, but they soon get back together. Both Dreama and Brad are written out of the series without explanation over the course of the season. At the end of the season, Harvey reaches his "spell quota" (meaning that no spells can be used on him anymore) and discovers that Sabrina is a witch, and later breaks up with Sabrina off screen and is written out of the show prior to the start of the next season.

text: Season 5 (2000–2001)[edit]

text: At the beginning of the fifth season, Sabrina starts college at Adams College and moves out of her aunts' house and into a house with other students at Adams. Her roommates are Morgan Cavanaugh, a shallow girl (played by Elisa Donovan); Roxie King (played by Soleil Moon Frye), a social feminist; and Miles Goodman (played by Trevor Lissauer), a geek who is obsessed with science fiction and the paranormal. Hilda and Zelda, feeling lonely since Sabrina moved out, find ways to stay close to her. Hilda buys the coffee shop where Sabrina works and Zelda becomes a professor at Adams and starts dating Sabrina's English professor. The season ends with Sabrina and Josh giving into their feelings and sharing a passionate kiss.

text: Season 6 (2001–2002)[edit]

text: At the beginning of the sixth season Josh and Sabrina get together but soon face a tough decision when Josh is tempted to move abroad to work as a photographer. Things are made even more complicated between them when Sabrina's ex-boyfriend from high school, Harvey, reappears, this time dating Sabrina's roommate Morgan. At the end of the sixth season, Sabrina agrees to sacrifice true love in order to save Hilda after the latter literally falls to pieces after Sabrina sabotages her relationship. Hilda recovers and is married, but Sabrina then falls to pieces when Josh, Harvey, and an attractive waiter announce they are all moving away and will never see her again.

text: Season 7 (2002–2003)[edit]

text: At the beginning of the seventh and final season, Sabrina is put back together after her Aunt Zelda sacrifices her adult years to save Sabrina. At this point, Zelda, Hilda, Miles, and Josh are written out of the show and Morgan and Roxie move into Hilda and Zelda's old house. Sabrina gets a job as a writer for the entertainment magazine Scorch, but this storyline and all the associated characters are dropped midway through the season. Sabrina then meets Aaron, the man to whom she becomes engaged. In the series finale Sabrina calls off her wedding with Aaron and runs off with Harvey, her soul mate, at 12:36, which is the time of day they first met and is a plot point in the season one episode As Westbridge Turns. In the last scene of the series, Sabrina and Harvey ride off on his motorcycle to the song ‘Running’ by No Doubt, Sabrina’s favorite band.

text: Cast and characters[edit]

text:
Melissa Joan Hart as Sabrina Spellman, a teenager who discovers on her sixteenth birthday that she is a witch and comes from a long line of witches. As she struggles to master her magic, she often wreaks havoc on those around her. Sabrina moved into her college's dormitories at the beginning of the fifth season and then back into her aunts' house after they left for the Other Realm.
Caroline Rhea as Hilda Spellman (seasons 1–6, guest season 7), one of the Spellman sisters. Hilda is the less rational and more impulsive one. After giving up violin in the fourth season (she destroyed her violin with dynamite), Hilda purchased a clock shop. Later, after Sabrina moved out of the house, she purchased Bean There, Brewed That, the coffee shop where Sabrina worked, and renamed it Hilda's Coffee House. After her marriage at the end of the sixth season, she moved away with her husband. Hilda returned for the series finale. Her middle name, 'Sucker', is revealed in season 6, although her middle name was Antoinette in season 2.
Beth Broderick as Zelda Spellman (seasons 1–6), Sabrina's aunt and Hilda's older sister. Zelda, a scientist and college professor, is the more rational of the two Spellman sisters and is often the voice of reason when Hilda or Sabrina uses magic irresponsibly. At the end of the sixth season she gives up her maturity in order for Sabrina to be changed back to flesh and blood after being turned into stone when she lost her true loves. Sabrina advises a now child Zelda to leave for the other realm with a newly married Hilda, ensuring her that she is okay to live on her own. Zelda makes an appearance as a candle in the last episode to allow Sabrina's mother to attend Sabrina's wedding.
Nate Richert as Harvey Kinkle (seasons 1–4 and 6–7, recurring season 5), Sabrina's boyfriend in the first four seasons. He breaks up with her when he finds out she is a witch. Amanda, Sabrina's cousin, tells him about Sabrina getting married and gives him his soul stone. He arrives at the church on his bike as Sabrina is running out. He is revealed to be her soul mate because their soul stones fit together. In the end, Sabrina leaves Aaron at the altar. Then Harvey and Sabrina run off together after they share a final kiss with Sabrina's favorite band, No Doubt, as the closing theme.
Jenna Leigh Green as Libby Chessler (seasons 1–3), Sabrina's arch-enemy while at high school. Libby is a spoiled rich girl and is often at the other end of Sabrina's spells as she learns to use them, leading Libby to often call Sabrina a "Freak" or "Freakster". Libby, a cheerleader, is seen to fancy Sabrina's love interest, Harvey, and makes many attempts to ask him out. Libby was sent to boarding school following the end of season 3.
Michelle Beaudoin as Jenny Kelley (season 1), Sabrina's best friend at high school in the first season. Jenny befriended Sabrina on her first day, and also introduced Sabrina to Harvey. Jenny walked into the closet at the Spellman house and ended up in the Other Realm, where Sabrina and her aunts had to rescue her and make it out as a dream. Jenny left at the end of season 1 and is mentioned in season 2 by Sabrina.
Paul Feig as Mr. Pool (season 1), Sabrina's favorite teacher who teaches Biology during the first season. He was sometimes bitter and sarcastic, but always interesting and usually lively. Mr. Pool is not mentioned after season 1.
Nick Bakay as Salem Saberhagen, a 500-year-old witch turned into a talking cat because of his plans to take over the world. Besides Sabrina herself, he is the only character to remain for the entire seven seasons and in fact appears in every single episode.
Martin Mull as Willard Kraft (seasons 2–4), the head teacher of Westbridge High, Sabrina's high school, and the on/off boyfriend of both Hilda and Zelda. Hilda mentions that herself and Zelda have stopped using magic on Willard, as it is starting to affect his mental state. This is also mentioned at the Jerry Springer Show when Zelda and Willard's ex-wife Lucy (who is a witch, unbeknownst to him) fight for his affections, in an adaption to the lie detector test, they performed the potion detector test showing he had extremely high amounts of magic in his system. The character left the series after season 4.
Lindsay Sloane as Valerie Birkhead (seasons 2–3), Sabrina's best friend from the second season. She comes across as dim but it becomes apparent that she suffers from self-doubt when Sabrina casts a spell on her that backfired—making her overconfident and careless. She discovers that Sabrina is a witch after Sabrina tells her and Harvey on Friday the 13th. Valerie left to move to Alaska with her parents at the start of season 4.
Alimi Ballard as Quizmaster (season 2), also known as Albert, is Sabrina's tutor who helps teach her to use her magic properly to acquire her witch's license. As Sabrina gained her license in the first episode of season 3, the character's last appearance was in the last episode of season 2.
David Lascher as Josh Blackhart (seasons 4–6), Sabrina's handsome co-worker in the Coffee Shop and later, love interest. Josh struggles with his career throughout his first two seasons, until he decides he wants to be a photographer. His relationship with Sabrina is much less consistent than that of her and Harvey. They often have problems to overcome. In the end, he leaves for Prague after Sabrina gives up her love life to save Hilda's life.
Jon Huertas as Brad Alcerro (season 4), the new kid in school, but used to attend Westbridge High, before Sabrina went to that school. Brad is a witch hunter but doesn't know it. Sabrina tries to stay away from him, but every time she is in school and uses magic, Brad always sees it. In the episode "Dreama, the Mouse", Dreama makes a water fountain appear, Brad sees and says "You know, sometimes I think you're a real witch" and then Dreama turns into a mouse. In that same episode Brad loses his witch hunter gene through an operation. That is when Sabrina realized that he's just a jerk and now she can use magic on him.
China Shavers as Dreama (season 4), the new kid in school, who causes a lot of trouble because she uses magic. She later turns out to be Sabrina's student. Sabrina has to teach Dreama how to control her magic. At the end of season 4 or the beginning of season 5, she is not mentioned and we don't know if she passed her test to get her witch's license.
Soleil Moon Frye as Roxie King (seasons 5–7), Sabrina's mortal roommate during her college years and remains a very close friend to her after their graduation. An activist with a very cynical humor, her opinion often clashes with Sabrina's more preppy attitude towards life. Later, both seem to have an effect on each other, as Roxie grows to be much more honest and compassionate, while Sabrina matures and becomes more socially conscious.
Elisa Donovan as Morgan Cavanaugh (seasons 5–7), Sabrina's third and final housemate, as well as her tutor, during her college years. Morgan is a talented fashion designer and a very good friend, but can also be shallow and even mischievous at times. She's the only known character who dated both of Sabrina's long term romantic interests (Harvey and Josh) as well as expressed interest in her fiancé, Aaron.
Trevor Lissauer as Miles Goodman (seasons 5–6), Sabrina's housemate during her college years though, unlike Roxie and Morgan, he's never seen nor mentioned after the graduation. Miles is a goodhearted, but nerdy boy obsessed with all things supernatural. Miles often comes close to discovering Sabrina's secret. Throughout the series, he develops a crush on Zelda, and is hinted to harbor similar feelings for Sabrina and Roxie.

text: Episodes and U.S. ratings history[edit]

text:
Season
Episodes
Originally aired
Nielsen ratings

First aired
Last aired
Network
Rank
Viewers
(millions)

1
24
September 27, 1996 (1996-09-27)
May 17, 1997 (1997-05-17)
ABC
41
9.3[14]

2
26
September 26, 1997 (1997-09-26)
May 15, 1998 (1998-05-15)
41
12.5[15]

3
25
September 25, 1998 (1998-09-25)
May 21, 1999 (1999-05-21)
41
12.2[16]

4
22
September 24, 1999 (1999-09-24)
May 5, 2000 (2000-05-05)
57
10.2[17]

5
22
September 22, 2000 (2000-09-22)
May 18, 2001 (2001-05-18)
The WB
124
3.8[18]

6
22
October 5, 2001 (2001-10-05)
May 10, 2002 (2002-05-10)
140
3.1[19]

7
22
September 20, 2002 (2002-09-20)
April 24, 2003 (2003-04-24)
146
3.0[20]

Films
3
April 7, 1996 (1996-04-07)
September 26, 1999 (1999-09-26)
Showtime / ABC
N/A
N/A

text: During its four-year run on ABC, Sabrina was the highest-rated series among the network's TGIF line-up. In the 2000–2001 season, the show moved to The WB after a negotiation dispute with ABC. While ABC was willing to renew the show for a fifth season, the network was not willing to pay the reported $1.5 million per episode that Viacom Productions, which produced the show, wanted. The WB then picked up the show for a mere $675,000 per episode, but agreed to commit to 44 episodes.

text: Syndication[edit]

text: United States[edit]

text: When The WB network picked up the series after ABC canceled the series, local stations (usually WB or UPN affiliates, with a couple of "Big 4" network affiliates as well) also picked up the rights to air reruns of the series from September 2000 on a weekday basis after the broadcast syndication ended in summer 2006. For example, WPIX reran weeknights at 5:30pm EST, after reruns of The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air. ABC Family, a United States cable network, had exclusive United States rights to air the show at 8:00am on weekdays, until March 25, 2011, at which point they dropped the series from the broadcast roster due to a contract expiration.[21] The series aired on The N during 2004–2009, until the channel became TeenNick in September 2009, where it continued to air intermittently for years. From late 2015 to early 2016, TeenNick aired the series with two back-to-back episodes at 6:00 pm on Saturdays and Sundays.

text: The series aired on Hub Network from 2012 to 2014.[22] MTV2 also aired the show at one point. In 2015, the series joined Logo TV on Thursday afternoons and Thursday late nights. The series started airing on Antenna TV in January 2016. As of May 14, 2018, the series is on Antenna TV Tuesday-Saturdays at 3:30 am ET and weekends at 1:00 pm ET. Most recently, the series joined the network POP, on Monday, August 8, 2016, airing in a three-episode block from 9:30–11:00 am throughout the week.

text: International syndication[edit]

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text: In the United Kingdom, Sabrina previously aired on ITV and Nickelodeon. It began airing on Pop Girl, a free-to-air children's channel, in July 2012, which currently broadcasts the first two seasons and the two subsequent movie. It was also broadcast on The Vault in 2014, during weekdays. The show can be seen in Ireland on RTÉ Two each weekday, 5:10–5:35 pm, as part of the youth oriented show TRTÉ. The entire series is currently (as of December 2016) available for streaming on hulu. The entire series is available on Amazon Prime.

text: In Australia, the show could be seen on Eleven, the Network Ten owned free-to-air channel at 6:00 pm and until 6 December 2013, with repeats at 12.30 am, seven days a week.

text: Video games[edit]

text: On June 11, 1999, Knowledge Adventure through Simon & Schuster Interactive and Havas Interactive officially announced the video games Sabrina the Teenage Witch: Spellbound, Sabrina the Teenage Witch: Brat Attack and Sabrina the Teenage Witch: Bundle of Magic for Macintosh and Microsoft Windows operating systems.

text: On March 29, 2001, Knowledge Adventure through Simon & Schuster Interactive and Havas Interactive officially announced the video game Sabrina the Teenage Witch: A Twitch in Time! for the PlayStation game system.[23]

text:
Game title
Platform
Developer
Publisher
Release date

Sabrina the Teenage Witch: Spellbound
Macintosh, Microsoft Windows
Havas Interactive
Knowledge Adventure (Havas Interactive), Simon & Schuster Interactive
August 27, 1999

Sabrina the Teenage Witch: Bundle of Magic
Microsoft Windows, Macintosh
Havas Interactive
Knowledge Adventure (Havas Interactive), Simon & Schuster Interactive
August 27, 1999

Sabrina the Teenage Witch: Brat Attack
Macintosh, Microsoft Windows
Havas Interactive
Knowledge Adventure (Havas Interactive), Simon & Schuster Interactive
November 8, 1999

Sabrina the Teenage Witch: A Twitch in Time!
PlayStation
Havas Interactive
Knowledge Adventure (Havas Interactive), Simon & Schuster Interactive
March 30, 2001

Sabrina the Teenage Witch: Potion Commotion
Game Boy Advance
No developer available
Ubisoft
April 25, 2002, September 1, 2002

Sabrina the Teenage Witch Triple Pack
Microsoft Windows, Hybrid PC, Macintosh
Simon & Schuster Interactive
Simon & Schuster Interactive
February 27, 2004

text: Multimedia[edit]

text: Animated series[edit]

text: An animated spin-off of the show, Sabrina: The Animated Series, started airing during the live action show's 4th season. The role of Sabrina was voiced by Hart's younger sister Emily Hart. Melissa Joan Hart voiced both aunts. This series was followed by a television film, Sabrina: Friends Forever, which in turn was followed by another series titled Sabrina's Secret Life. Neither Emily Hart nor Melissa Joan Hart returned for the television film or the follow up series.

text: A new animated spin-off was produced by Hub Network in 2013 called Sabrina: Secrets of a Teenage Witch. In this version, Sabrina (voiced by Ashley Tisdale) is a witch princess in training so that she can one day rule the other realm.