Still, others haven’t necessarily lambasted the film. To preserve the reliability of our rating system, an alternate weighting calculation has been applied.” Strong reactions to the movie have even led the film/television online database IMDb (Internet Movie Database) to step in and post the following warning label: “Our rating mechanism has detected unusual voting activity on this title. Directed by Rob Marshall (Chicago, Mary Poppins Returns) this Disney interpretation stars Halle Bailey as Ariel, Melissa McCarthy as Ursula, and Jonah Hauer-King as Price Eric. Those criticisms have included alterations to the lyrics from classic songs (specifically actress Awkwafina’s rap song The Scuttlebutt) to the racial recasting of what was the original fair-skinned character of Ariel from the original Danish story. It certainly looks unlikely to make the $1 billion mark that past Disney remakes like Beauty and the Beast and Aladdin did.Ĭontroversy has surrounded Disney’s The Little Mermaid for the last couple of years as some have criticized the live adaptation’s “woke” story changes. Considering the reported $250 million production cost and its $140 million global marketing campaign, Mermaid looks to likely only break even or could even take a loss of close to $20 million. The film is expected to earn approximately $300 million in the United States/Canada compared to $260 million abroad. Meanwhile, reports are that The Little Mermaid’s numbers are ultimately looking particularly troubling overseas. 3, which was released on May 5 and grossed $48.1 million. That number even beats Disney/Marvel Studio’s Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. Its opening day alone took in $51.7 million alone, the biggest single-day gross to date for a movie in 2023. That’s while Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse earned a whopping $120.5 million Memorial Day weekend opening, the best start for a summer tentpole year-to-date. So far it’s grossed a total of $186.2 million in the two weeks it’s been in theaters. That’s according to box office analysts who noted the rarity of a Disney film based on a popular animated musical making a less than stellar showing over the Memorial Day holiday period, while also beckoning the question as to whether or not the Walt Disney Company’s woke policies are coming back to bite them.Īccording to Deadline and other online publications, The Little Mermaid took in a three-day total of $40.6 million, which is a 57 percent decline from its May 26th opening weekend. While Marvel’s “Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse” broke the bank at the weekend box office earning top honors, Disney’s live-action remake of “The Little Mermaid” sunk in comparison to its previous similar tentpole films.
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