The Walt Disney Company has recently hit something of a stride when it comes to the subtle art of repurposing its own animated catalogue in live-action movies (though some of their projects stretch the meaning of the phrase "live-action") marketed toward the now-adult audiences who fell in love with those original films. In between modest performers like last year's Dumbo and the-year-before's Christopher Robin, the studio has released bona-fide blockbuster remakes of Beauty and the Beast, Aladdin, and The Lion King.
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The Walt Disney Company has lately made something of an artform out of reimagining its own animated features into (often) billion-dollar live-action films, starting with Alice in Wonderland in 2010 and continuing with Beauty and the Beast and Aladdin, as well as the photorealistic computer animated remake of The Lion King.
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