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How 5 Disney animated classics compare to their live-action remakes at the box office

Disney's "Aladdin," in theaters this weekend, is just one of many live-action remakes of its animated classics the company is releasing this year.

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Disney's "Aladdin" hits theaters this weekend . It's the second Disney remake of an animated classic to be released this year, following March's "Dumbo" and it won't be the last.

"The Lion King" arrives in June; a sequel to the "Sleeping Beauty" reimagining, "Maleficent," comes to theaters in October; and a live-action "Lady and the Tramp" will be included on Disney's streaming service, Disney Plus , when it launches in November.

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Disney has ramped up its live-action remakes in recent years, and they've raked in tons of cash for the company at the box office. "Beauty and the Beast" grossed $1.2 billion worldwide in 2017.

But the animated classics these movies are inspired by fared rather well, too at least after inflation.

We've gathered five Disney animated classics and their remakes to compare the box-office takes, adjusted for inflation, based on figures from Box Office Mojo . We included the adjusted and original domestic box-office grosses for the movies, the original worldwide take for the live-action remakes, and the production budgets when available.

The animated movies have been rereleased multiple times in theaters over the years, so we based the domestic numbers only on the original release. We excluded movies like "Dumbo" and "Alice in Wonderland" because reliable box-office data wasn't available.

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Adjusted domestic gross: $170,000,000

Original domestic gross: $10,000,000

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Adjusted domestic gross: $219,003,000

Original domestic gross: $201,151,353

Worldwide gross: $543,514,353

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Production budget: $95 million

The 2015 "Cinderella" remake, starring Lily James, grossed more domestically than its animated predecessor, but the original puts up a fight after inflation with $170 million.

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Adjusted domestic gross: $618,090,800

Original domestic gross: $36,479,805

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Adjusted domestic gross: $262,678,900

Original domestic gross: $241,410,378

Worldwide gross: $758,539,785

Production budget: $180 million

Domestically, the animated "Sleeping Beauty" beats out "Maleficent's" gross after inflation by a mile with $618 million. But "Maleficent" performed well, especially worldwide, and a sequel later this year, "Maleficent: Mistress of Evil," will try to continue its success.

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Adjusted domestic gross: $506,806,200

Original domestic gross: $14,000,000

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Adjusted domestic gross: $274,335,300

Original domestic gross: $136,189,294

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Worldwide gross: $320,689,294

The original animated movie grossed nearly double domestically what its remake did after inflation, with $507 million.

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Adjusted domestic gross: $505,858,900

Original domestic gross: $73,741,048

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Adjusted domestic gross: $375,813,700

Original domestic gross: $364,001,123

Worldwide gross: $966,550,600

Production budget: $175 million

The animated original "Jungle Book" grossed more domestically after inflation than the remake with $505 million, but the remake was still a huge hit, making nearly $1 billion worldwide.

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Adjusted domestic gross: $315,041,100

Original domestic gross: $145,863,363

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Production budget: $25 million

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Adjusted domestic gross: $511,751,900

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Original domestic gross: $504,014,165

Worldwide gross: $1,263,521,126

Production budget: $160 million

The "Beauty and the Beast" remake far outpaced the animated original. The original made $315 million domestically after inflation, while the remake made over $500 million, and $1.2 billion worldwide. It was the second-biggest movie globally in 2017, behind only "Star Wars: The Last Jedi."

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SEE ALSO: The 21 movies that made more money than 'Avengers: Endgame' at the US box office after inflation

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