Beauty and the Beast is a 2017 American musical romantic fantasy film co-produced by Walt Disney Pictures and Mandeville Films, directed by Bill Condon from a screenplay written by Stephen Chbosky and Evan Spiliotopoulos. The film is a live-action/CGI-animated remake of Disney's 1991 animated film of the same name, itself an adaptation of Jeanne-Marie Leprince de Beaumont's eighteenth-century fairy tale.
Principal photography began at Shepperton Studios in Surrey, England on May 18, 2015, and ended on August 21. Beauty and the Beast premiered on February 23, 2017, at Spencer House in London and was released in North America on March 17, 2017, in the standard, Disney Digital 3-D, RealD 3D, IMAX, and IMAX 3D formats along with Dolby Cinema.
