Notorious Pictures top of the box office charts with The Beauty and the Beast
- The French film almost reached €2 million. After the success of Belle & Sebastien, the distribution outfit has reached top position for the second time in one month

An extraordinary debut for The Beauty and the Beast [+see also:
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In second place was Giovanni Veronesi’s comedy Una donna per amica [+see also:
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The cinema adaptation of the world-renowned classic, played by Vincent Cassel and Léa Seydoux, is a French German co-production, which officially premiered in Berlin. Pathé Distribution brought the film into French cinemas on February 12 with 1.2 million spectators.
The next Notorious Pictures release is the long-awaited A Long Way Down by Pascal Chaumeil, a comedy based on the bestseller by the same name by Nick Hornby.
(Translated from Italian)
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