‘Boss Baby’ dethrones ‘Beauty and the Beast’ with $49M debut

NEW YORK (AP) — The taskmaster toddler of “The Boss Baby” dethroned Disney’s “Beauty and the Beast” at the box office with a $49 million debut, handing its star Alec Baldwin what President Donald Trump might call a “huge” no. 1 opening.
Paramount Pictures suffered another flop with its controversy-plagued “Ghost in the Shell.”
The DreamWorks Animation release from 20th Century Fox, starring Baldwin as a suit-clad baby, narrowly edged ou