LOS ANGELES — Two attempts to turn faded television shows into box office hits had drastically different outcomes over the weekend, as “CHIPS” crashed into a wall of critical contempt and “Saban’s Power Rangers” pulled off one of moviedom’s hardest tricks: simultaneously satisfying older fans while enticing a new generation.

But neither of those new films could hold a talking candlestick to “Beauty and the Beast,” which took in $88 million at North American theaters, for a two-week domestic total of roughly $317 million. The Disney musical has already taken in an astounding $690 million worldwide, according to comScore, which compiles box office data.

“Power Rangers” (Lionsgate) was second. It collected $40.5 million, at the high end of prerelease analyst expectations. Designed to resuscitate one of the top television and toy properties of the 1990s, “Power Rangers” cost at least $100 million to make and tens of millions more to market. (The billionaire mogul and political power broker Haim Saban controls the characters, hence the film’s uneuphonious formal title.)

“Power Rangers” received weak reviews, a worrisome sign for five — count ’em, five — planned sequels. But ticket buyers felt differently. “The key was the audience reaction, which was pretty fantastic,” David Spitz, Lionsgate’s president for domestic distribution, said by phone on Sunday. “The exit polling showed that the movie really delivered for young and old, male and female.”