Advance Tickets for Disney's BEAUTY AND THE BEAST Already Selling Out Theaters Nationwide

As fans eagerly await THE MARCH 17th premiere of Disney's live-action BEAUTY AND THE BEAST, Deadline reports that the film is already out-selling advance ticket sales for 'Finding Dory' on Fandango.

According to the site, Disney's re-telling of the 1991 animated classic is to date this week, the No. 1 ticket-seller on Fandango, with the online retailer calling the early pre-sales, "Unstoppable, the likes of which Fandango normally sees for a superhero movie." Currently, hundreds of showtimes across the country are already sold-out, despite the fact that the film will not open for another six weeks.

In recent years, Disney's live-action adaptations of their animated classics have proven to be box office successes, including Alice in Wonderland ($116M stateside opening, $334M domestic, $1B global), The Jungle Book ($103.3M debut, $364M domestic, $966.6M global), Maleficent ($69.4M opening, $241.4M domestic, $758.5M global), and Cinderella ($67.9M debut, $201.1M domestic, $543.5M global).

Below, check out the recently released final trailer for BEAUTY AND THE BEAST:

Disney's "Beauty and the Beast" is a live-action re-telling of the studio's animated classic which refashions the classic characters from the tale as old as time for a contemporary audience, staying true to the original music while updating the score with several new songs. "Beauty and the Beast" is the fantastic journey of Belle, a bright, beautiful and independent young woman who is taken prisoner by a beast in his castle. Despite her fears, she befriends the castle's enchanted staff and learns to look beyond the Beast's hideous exterior and realize the kind heart and soul of the true Prince within. The film stars: Emma Watson as Belle; Dan Stevens as the Beast; Luke Evans as Gaston, the handsome, but shallow villager who woos Belle; Oscar® winnerKevin Kline as Maurice, BELLE'S eccentric, but lovable father; Josh Gad as Lefou, Gaston's long-suffering aide-de-camp; Golden Globe® nominee Ewan McGregor as Lumiere, the candelabra; Oscar nominee Stanley Tucci as Maestro Cadenza, the harpsichord; Oscar nominee Ian McKellen as Cogsworth, the mantel clock; and two-time Academy Award® winner Emma Thompson as the teapot, Mrs. Potts.

Directed by Oscar winner Bill Condon based on the 1991 animated film, "Beauty and the Beast" is produced by Mandeville Films' David Hoberman and Todd Lieberman, with eight-time Oscar-winning composer Alan Menken, who won two Academy Awards® (Best Original Score and Best Song) for the 1991 animated film, providing the score, which will include new recordings of the original songs written by Menken and Howard Ashman, as well as several new songs written by Menken and three-time Oscar winnerTim Rice.