Emma Thompson and Stanley Tucci attended a film festival and they were asked if they were at all surprised by the film's enormous success at the box-office and they said "not one bit".
http://ew.com/movies/2017/09/09/beau...stanley-tucci/
I honestly don't see why they should be surprised at all. It's a movie based one of the most beloved Disney properties of all-time. Nothing was going to prevent it from being successful.