The Little Mermaid (Live-Action)

[Patricier21]

The movie has grossed around $370m

Source?

[Sotiris]

Second weekend box office numbers.

Disney’s The Little Mermaid led all films in regular release yesterday with $6.8M (-17% from Wednesday) ending its week with an estimated $145.7M at 4,320 theaters, +2% ahead of the first week of Aladdin. Weekend 2 of The Little Mermaid is seeing around $12M today, for a $42M-$44M second weekend at 4,320 theaters, -54% at the high-end, for a 10-day total of $189.7M. Aladdin eased 53% with a $42.8M second weekend in 2019, which got it to $185.5M over the same point in time.

The Little Mermaid (Dis) 4,320 theaters, Fri $11.8M (-69%) Sat $16.2M Sun $12.6M 3 day $40.6M (-57%) Total $186.2M/Wk 2

Source: https://deadline.com/2023/06/box-office ... 235398807/

Disney’s The Little Mermaid docked at second place in its sophomore weekend with an estimated $40.6 million from 4,320 theaters for a domestic total of $186.2 million. The live-action movie fell 58 percent. Overseas, the live-action remake earned another $40.6 million for a foreign tally of $140.5 million and $326.7 million globally.

Source: https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/movie ... 235506732/

The studio’s live-action remake of “The Little Mermaid” earned $11.8 million on Friday, down roughly 69% from its opening day last week. The underwater musical looks to add roughly $40 million in its sophomore outing, pushing its domestic total to about $186 million. That’d set the same pace as the 2019 remake of “Aladdin,” which earned $185 million across its first 10 days of release and ended with $355 million in North America.

Source: https://variety.com/2023/film/box-offic ... 235631951/

Disney’s “The Little Mermaid” remake, starring Halle Bailey as Ariel and Melissa McCarthy as Ursula, slid to the No. 2 spot with $40.6 million from 4,320 venues in its second weekend of release. That’s a 57% decline from its debut. So far, “The Little Mermaid” has grossed $186 million in North America. Overseas, the under-the-sea tale has collected $42 million in its sophomore outing, which brings its international tally to $140 million and its worldwide total to $326 million.

Source: https://variety.com/2023/film/box-offic ... 235632404/

Disney’s “The Little Mermaid” continued its strong performance in the UK, collecting £4.2 million in second place in its second weekend for a total of £16.2 million.

Source: https://variety.com/2023/film/box-offic ... 235634479/

In second is Disney’s “The Little Mermaid,” which is earning a respectable hold with its female-skewing core audience and is pacing for an industry estimated $41 million second weekend. That result equates to a decent 57% drop from the film’s $118 million 3-day opening weekend and would give it a $186 million domestic 10-day total, roughly on pace with the domestic run of Disney’s 2019 “Aladdin” remake.

Source: https://www.thewrap.com/spider-man-acro ... -office-2/

In second is Disney’s remake of “The Little Mermaid” with $40.6 million grossed in its second weekend, a respectable 57% drop from the film’s $118 million opening weekend. With $186 million grossed after 10 days, “The Little Mermaid” is enjoying a successful run in the U.S. on par with Disney’s 2019 remake of “Aladdin.” Overseas, “The Little Mermaid” got some good news after a poor $68 million international opening, dropping just 34% for $42 million in second weekend. With a global total of $327 million after two weekends, “The Little Mermaid” will still have a final total well below that of other recent Disney theatrical remakes, but may be able to turn a modest theatrical profit against its $250 million budget before marketing if it continues to leg out, particularly in Europe.

Source: https://www.thewrap.com/spider-man-acro ... 0-million/

“Guardians” surpassed $300 million this weekend and “Mermaid” has an outside chance of reaching that target; neither has any chance of scoring $400 million.

Source: https://www.indiewire.com/news/box-offi ... 234868956/

Disney hoped “The Little Mermaid” would generate as much as $1 billion worldwide, with the furor evaporating once the film arrived in theaters. Feedback scores from test screenings were strong, as were early reviews. Instead, “The Little Mermaid” will top out closer to $600 million, box office analysts said on Sunday, largely because the film faltered overseas, where it was “review bombed,” with online trolls flooding movie sites with racist one-star reviews. The film has done well in North America, outperforming “Aladdin” and receiving an A grade from ticket buyers in CinemaScore exit polls, although attendance by white moviegoers has been soft in some parts of the United States, according to analysts. Support from Black and Latino audiences have made up the slack. “While the international opening was softer than we would have liked, the film is playing exceptionally well which we believe sets us up for a very long run,” he said on Saturday.

Source: https://www.nytimes.com/2023/06/04/busi ... ction.html

[Disney Duster]

Divinity, you probably don't give a damn, but I'll say it anyway. The Little Mermaid is Shakespearean. It's got a forbidden romance, like Cinderella (servant/royal), and the getting the throne stuff (also in Cinderella except it's not through violence).

I guess this film won't make a billion like I predicted, but it did outdo Aladdin for the first few weeks and got an A Cinemascore, so, who knows?

[Farerb]

One of the very first lines of dialogue spoken in the 1989 animated feature The Little Mermaid is "A fine strong wind and a following sea. King Triton must be in a friendly-type mood." The approximately equivalent line of dialogue in the 2023 remake of that same film is "This is a dangerous time. Tonight's the coral moon. They say this is when the Sea King calls his mermaid daughters together to lure men to their deaths." And I think that just about sums up all the differences between the two: energetic, bouncy delight and a rollicking sense of adventure versus suffocating misery and despair and gloominess.

In this respect, The Little Mermaid '23 is nothing more nor less than an exemplar of the Walt Disney Company's ongoing attempt to take what is beautifully expressive and aesthetically rich about its unmatched canon of animated features stretching back to 1937, and turn it into grey paste. I will say this in praise of The Little Mermaid: as the last remake of the Big Four titles from the studio's 1990s renaissance, it's definitely not the worst, nor the ugliest. The 2017 Beauty and the Beast is substantially more aggressive in its gaudy tastelessness, and the 2019 The Lion King goes much farther in allowing a cultish dedication to photorealism to strangle every possible molecule of life out of the settings and the characters and the overall momentum. The Little Mermaid is 135 minutes long, and it has absolutely no right to be, but it feels 135 minutes long; The Lion King is 118 minutes long, but feels twice that. So, hooray for being on the upswing. And of course, all of this does sum up to "but anyway, the 2019 Aladdin is still the best remake of a '90s Disney film", which reflects a pretty horrific track record for these things.

https://www.alternateending.com/2023/06 ... -2023.html

[Disney's Divinity]

Oh, interesting to see everyone reads the same things I do. My favorite part was the last line or two about the palace now being a green mound, and the beginning score having nada to build up to. Well, and the subtitle.

[D82]

Do you guys think this article could be right about that detail?

The Little Mermaid Gives Ariel A New Power That The Original Movie Left Out
https://screenrant.com/little-mermaid-r ... iren-song/

Carolinakid, because there had been some misinformation spread that Flotsam and Jetsam were not going to be in this film, but later we heard they were in the film but didn't talk, Divinity wondered if they CGIed them into the film with no one interacting with them.

I think it was Marce82 who asked about the Flotsam and Jetsam controversy, not Carolinakid, but I might be wrong since I haven't read all the comments in the last few pages as I wanted to see the film first before reading more reviews. I finally saw it a few days ago, but I haven't had time to catch up with the conversations here yet.

Anyway, regarding Flotsam and Jetsam, the rumors they wouldn't be in the film started when a comedian said his manager reached out to Disney to see if they needed someone to voice the characters, and according to him, Disney told them they weren't in the film. Maybe they weren't in it at that point, but who knows, perhaps Disney didn't want to explain they just didn't talk, or the comedian or his manager misunderstood them.

What is clear now is that they weren't added in post-production, as they do interact with the other characters and have their role in the movie, plus Melissa McCarthy posted this photo the other day which proves they were already part of the film during the shooting.


Source: https://www.instagram.com/p/Cs9YcXVPO_H/

I think the reason they don't talk (and perhaps that they weren't going to appear initially, if that's true) is that the filmmakers wanted Ursula herself to be the one to lure Ariel to her lair, since in this version she's her aunt, which makes Ariel more likely to listen to her. Flotsam and Jetsam don't speak much in the original during the rest of the movie, so I guess now that Ursula has taken that role from them, they thought there wasn't much reason for them to talk.

Some people really hate "The Scuttlebutt". Personally, I don't think it's that bad, but it's true it doesn't fit much with the rest of the songs.

There have been several articles proclaiming "Scuttlebutt" the worst Disney song, including one from Rolling Stone and Daily Beast, and I hate that Menken is now associated with this "honor" because of LMM.

I hope he doesn't get another Razzie for this. Though, I looked it up and the last time an award for Worst Song was given was in 2002, more than 20 years ago, so I guess they don't hand them out anymore.

[Sotiris]

The Little Mermaid has been nominated for a Golden Trailer Award. Update: It lost in the category.

Best Original Score

Blonde "Official Teaser" — Netflix, Empire Design
The Boy, the Mole, the Fox and the Horse "Together" — Apple TV+, MOTIVE
Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery "Puzzle" — Netflix, MOTIVE
Lady Chatterley's Lover “Life” — Netflix, Ignition Creative London
The Little Mermaid "Above" — Walt Disney Studios, Level Up AV

Source: https://goldentrailer.com/gta23-nominee ... heatrical/


The Little Mermaid has been nominated for a Costume Designers Guild Award. Update: It lost in the category.

Excellence in Sci-Fi/Fantasy Film

Barbie
Haunted Mansion
The Hunger Games: The Ballad of Songbirds & Snakes
The Little Mermaid
Rebel Moon — Part One: A Child of Fire

Source: https://twitter.com/CostumeAwards/statu ... 6730600697


The Little Mermaid has been nominated for a Set Decorators Society of America Award. Update: It lost in the category.

Best Achievement in Decor/Design of a Feature Film (Musical or Comedy)

American Fiction
Are You There God? It's Me, Margaret
Asteroid City
Candy Cane Lane
The Little Mermaid

Source: https://awardswatch.com/set-decorators- ... -and-more/


The Little Mermaid has been nominated for an ICG Publicists Award. Update: It lost in the category.

Motion Picture Publicity Campaign

Air
Barbie
John Wick: Chapter 4
The Little Mermaid
Maestro
Oppenheimer
Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Mutant Mayhem

Source: https://deadline.com/2024/01/icg-public ... 235715336/


The Little Mermaid has been nominated for an Annie Award. Update: It lost in the category.

Best Character Animation (Live Action)

Ahsoka
Cocaine Bear
Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3
The Little Mermaid
Transformers: Rise of the Beasts

Source: https://deadline.com/2024/01/annie-awar ... 235711973/


The Little Mermaid has been nominated for two Black Reel Awards. Update: It lost in both categories.

Outstanding Soundtrack

The Color Purple
Creed III
The Little Mermaid
Rustin
Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse

Outstanding Breakthrough Performance

Archie Madekwe — Grand Turismo
Danielle Brooks — The Color Purple
Dewayne Perkins — The Blackening
Fantasia Barrino — The Color Purple
Halle Bailey — The Little Mermaid
Jerrod Carmichael — Poor Things
Phylicia Pearl Mpasi — The Color Purple
Teyana Taylor — A Thousand and One
Tia Nomore — Earth Mama
Vivian Oparah — Rye Lane

Source: https://www.blackreelawards.com/2024-bl ... tv-winners


The Little Mermaid has been nominated for two NAACP Image Awards. Update: It lost in both categories.

Outstanding Soundtrack/Compilation Album

The Color Purple
Creed III
Godfather of Harlem: Season 3
The Little Mermaid
Metro Boomin Presents Spider–Man: Across the Spider–Verse

Outstanding Actress in a Motion Picture

Aunjanue Ellis–Taylor — Origin
Fantasia Barrino — The Color Purple
Halle Bailey — The Little Mermaid
Teyana Taylor — A Thousand and One
Yara Shahidi — Sitting in Bars with Cake

Source: https://deadline.com/2024/01/2024-naacp ... 235804254/


The Little Mermaid has been nominated for two Family Film and TV Awards. Update: It lost in both categories.

Best Ensemble Feature Film

Barbie
Dungeons & Dragons: Honor Among Thieves
Fast X
Haunted Mansion
The Little Mermaid

Outstanding Actors in a Feature Film

Chris Pine — Dungeons & Dragons: Honor Among Thieves
Chris Pratt — Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3
Halle Bailey — The Little Mermaid
Margot Robbie — Barbie
Ryan Gosling — Barbie
Timothée Chalamet — Wonka

Source: https://deadline.com/2023/12/nomination ... 235682821/


The Little Mermaid has been nominated for three People's Choice Awards. Update: It lost in all categories.

Movie of the Year

Barbie
Fast X
Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3
Oppenheimer
Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse
Taylor Swift: The Eras Tour
The Little Mermaid
The Super Mario Bros. Movie

Female Movie Star of the Year

Florence Pugh — Oppenheimer
Halle Bailey — The Little Mermaid
Jenna Ortega — Scream VI
Jennifer Lawrence — No Hard Feelings
Julia Roberts — Leave the World Behind
Margot Robbie — Barbie
Rachel Zegler — The Hunger Games: The Ballad of Songbirds & Snakes
Viola Davis — The Hunger Games: The Ballad of Songbirds & Snakes

Movie Performance of the Year

America Ferrera — Barbie
Charles Melton — May December
Danielle Brooks — The Color Purple
Jacob Elordi — Saltburn
Melissa McCarthy — The Little Mermaid
Natalie Portman — May December
Simu Liu — Barbie
Viola Davis — Air

Source: https://www.eonline.com/news/1392489/20 ... f-nominees


The Little Mermaid has been nominated for four Saturn Awards. Update: It lost in all categories.

Best Fantasy Film

Barbie
Dungeons & Dragons: Honor Among Thieves
Haunted Mansion
Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny
The Little Mermaid

Best Supporting Actress in a Movie

Angela Bassett — Black Panther: Wakanda Forever
Emily Blunt — Oppenheimer
Jane Curtain — Jules
Melissa McCarthy — The Little Mermaid
Phoebe Waller-Bridge — Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny
Sophie Wilde — Talk to Me

Best Younger Performer in a Movie

Halle Bailey — The Little Mermaid
Jack Champion — Avatar: The Way of Water
Noah Schnapp — The Tutor
Violet McGraw — M3GAN
Vivien Lyra Blair — The Boogeyman
Xolo Maridueña — Blue Beetle

Best Film Music

Avatar: The Way of Water
Barbie
Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny
The Little Mermaid
Renfield
Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse

Source: https://deadline.com/2023/12/saturn-awa ... 235654052/


The Little Mermaid has been nominated for four Hollywood Music in Media Awards. Update: It lost in all categories.

Outstanding Music-Themed Film or Musical

Carmen
The Little Mermaid
Theater Camp
Trolls Band Together
Wonka

Outstanding Song (Sci-Fi/Fantasy Film)

"Can't Catch Me Now" — The Hunger Games: The Ballad of Songbirds & Snakes
"For the First Time" — The Little Mermaid
"Wild Uncharted Waters" — The Little Mermaid
"A World of Your Own" — Wonka
"You've Never Had Chocolate Like This" — Wonka

Outstanding Song (On-Screen Performance)

"Better Place" — Trolls Band Together
"For the First Time" — The Little Mermaid
"High Life" — Flora and Son
"I'm Just Ken" — Barbie
"Keep It Movin’" — The Color Purple
"Out Alpha the Alpha" — Dicks: The Musical
"Praise Nationals Finale" — Praise This
"A World of Your Own" — Wonka

Source: https://www.hmmawards.com/2023-HMMA-nominations/


The Little Mermaid has been nominated for eleven The DisInsider Awards.

Theatrical Movie of the Year

Avatar: The Way of Water
Elemental
Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3
Haunting in Venice
The Little Mermaid
The Marvels
Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse
Wish

Best Original Song

"For the First Time" — The Little Mermaid
"Knowing What I Know Now" — Wish
"Steal the Show" — Elemental
"This Wish" — Wish
"Wild Uncharted Waters" — The Little Mermaid
"A Wish Worth Making" — Wish

Best Villain

Chris Pine as King Magnifico — Wish
Chukwudi Iwuji as The High Evolutionary — Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3
Jim Pirri as Kraven: The Hunter — Spider-Man 2
Jonathan Piche-Delorme & Gabriel Beauvais (VFX Supervisors) — The Boogeyman
Melissa McCarthy and Jessica Alexander as Ursula — The Little Mermaid
Tony Todd as Venom — Spider-Man 2
Zawe Ashton as Darr-Benn — The Marvels

Best Male Lead Character in a Movie

Ben — Haunted Mansion
Hercules Poirot — Haunting in Venice
Peter Quill/Star-Lord — Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3
Prince Eric — The Little Mermaid
Wade — Elemental

Best Female Lead Character in a Movie

Ariel — The Little Mermaid
Asha — Wish
Carol Danvers/Captain Marvel — The Marvels
Ember — Elemental
Gabbie — Haunted Mansion
Kamala Khan/Ms Marvel — The Marvels
Monica Rambeau — The Marvels

Best Lead Actor in a Movie

Alexander Molony — Peter Pan & Wendy
David Jonsson — Rye Lane
Jonah Hauer-King — The Little Mermaid
Kelvin Harrison Jr. — Chevalier
Lakeith Stanfield — Haunted Mansion
Sam Worthington — Avatar: The Way of Water

Best Lead Actress in a Movie

Brie Larson — The Marvels
Halle Bailey — The Little Mermaid
Iman Vellani — The Marvels
Sophie Thatcher — The Boogeyman
Sigourney Weaver — Avatar: The Way of Water
Teyonah Parris — The Marvels
Vivian Oparah — Rye Lane

Best Supporting Actress in a Movie

Kate Winslet — Avatar: The Way of Water
Noma Dumezweni — The Little Mermaid
Ronkẹ Adékoluẹjo — Chevalier
Samara Weaving — Chevalier
Vivien Lyra Blair — The Boogeyman

Best Breakout Star

Alexander Molony — Peter Pan & Wendy
Halle Bailey — The Little Mermaid
Natasha Ofili — Spider-Man 2
Trinity Jo-Li Bliss — Avatar: The Way of Water
Vivian Oparah — Rye Lane

Best Ensemble Cast in a Movie

Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3
Haunted Mansion
The Little Mermaid
The Marvels
Peter Pan & Wendy
Rye Lane
Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse

Source: https://thedisinsider.com/2023/11/27/th ... -now-open/


The Little Mermaid has won two Global Entertainment Awards.

Best Motion Poster

The Little Mermaid

Best Out Of Home/Outdoor Advertising

The Little Mermaid

Source: https://deadline.com/2024/03/global-ent ... 235844230/

[Disney Duster]

Oh, ok D82. Sorry, Marce82, if that was you! D82, did Menken get a Razzie before?

[Farerb]

Oh, ok D82. Sorry, Marce82, if that was you! D82, did Menken get a Razzie before?

Yes, He did for Newsies.

[Disney Duster]

Oh, wow. But Newsies became a hit on Broadway, and kept that song, didn't it?

D82, I forgot to say, I think the siren song power of merpeople being in this film is true. Even Ursula says something like, "You must give me your siren song, because to use it wouldn't be fair, would it?"

[Sotiris]

But Newsies became a hit on Broadway, and kept that song, didn't it?

The Razzie-winning song was "High Times, Hard Times", and no they didn't keep it in the Broadway adaptation.

[Disney's Divinity]

I'm not surprised about that, Newsies was one it took me a long time to get into (and it really only happened with the Broadway cast recording).

I remember noting the night I saw the film it seemed to use "siren song" merely as a replacement for almost all the dialogue where they would've had to say Ariel was trading her "voice" as part of the deal. I suppose they also used it to "explain" how Ursula mesmerizes Eric here while simultaneously involving something associated with mermaids in mythology. Anyway, what Patricier had been referring to was FastFins.

[D82]

D82, I forgot to say, I think the siren song power of merpeople being in this film is true. Even Ursula says something like, "You must give me your siren song, because to use it wouldn't be fair, would it?"

I guess you're right. When Ursula said that I did think Ariel's voice probably had some type of power, but I didn't realize it was the same one Ursula uses later to manipulate Eric, as the article says. I wonder why she needed Ariel's voice for that, though. Shouldn't she have her own siren song power too? Though, perhaps she doesn't as she seems to be of another species. Maybe Triton and her are just half-siblings and she didn't inherit that ability from her father or mother (whoever was a merperson).

[Disney Duster]

Oh, thank you Sotiris.

I dunno. In the magical fantasy world where mermaids exist and animals talk, I was able to believe a cecaelian and a merman can come from a god of the sea even though Ariel is no goddess.

[Vlad]

I saw on YouTube that the movie could be considered a flop. It had a strong opening weekend, but in its second weekend, it dropped by 58% or something like that, because of the new Spider-Man movie. Upcoming movies like The Flash and Barbie will only take from its audience. Even though I kinda expected this to happen, it's still very sad to see what Disney has become. And this is coming from someone who enjoyed the movie. I expect that the same thing will happen with Snow White next year, although Gal Gadot might be its saving grace.

[Thumper_93]

Disney is earning lot of money with the merchandise and the movie did great numbers last week. I wouldn't call It a flop

[carolinakid]

I saw it won’t even break even. We’ll have to see who’s right...

[Candy-Bonita95]

So I saw it.
I'm in the "It wasn't as bad as thought is was going to be" camp.

What I liked about the movie.
1) Definitely extended development with Eric and his relationship with Ariel.
2) Halle Bailey was phenomenal. I'm hoping that the praise for her performance and maybe even The Color Purple ignites a movie musical revival era.
3) Jessica Alexander as Ursula's human form Vanessa- she ate and left no crumbs. I actually prefer her performance than McCarthy's because Melissa McCarthy needed less Melissa McCarthy-ing. Ursula is just the kind of role in need of 100% immersion, and Jessica Alexander had that 100% immersion as Vanessa.
4) I do like the 2nd act.

What I didn't like.
1) The pacing and editing are ridiculously off, especially for the first act. I couldn't help thinking that the extra 50 minutes added to the screenplay was mostly Javier Bardem turning slowly in the water. I think this is the most significant set back, because of all things, Disney execs would have encouraged better pacing for the sake of family audiences.
2) "Kiss the Girl" needed to sound less sparse. The arrangement for this song in the original film is fantastic, and having only the VA for Sebastian, Flounder and Scuttle just didn't do it.

[Disney's Divinity]

I expect that the same thing will happen with Snow White next year, although Gal Gadot might be its saving grace.

I agree, Gadot might help it do a little better than this one. Of course, I could end up being wrong.

[D82]

I dunno. In the magical fantasy world where mermaids exist and animals talk, I was able to believe a cecaelian and a merman can come from a god of the sea even though Ariel is no goddess.

I thought of that possibility because in the tie-in book "The Little Mermaid: Guide to Merfolk" it says Ursula is a species all her own, but that book isn't necessarily canon.

By the way, a new concept art and a cardboard cut-out apparently used on set reveal the top part of Ariel's mermaid look was going to be a bit different initially:


Sources: https://www.instagram.com/p/CtJOj9Qx_td/, https://www.instagram.com/p/Cszoev6P_Ks/ (via Disney Live-Actions Brasil)

Speaking of that, another behind-the-scene photo reveals her top on the Fandango poster is the one Halle was wearing in one of the early fittings, which I don't think was meant to be worn in the movie. Shouldn't that image of her had been edited to replace it with the film version of her look?


Source: https://twitter.com/mmdisney200/status/ ... 4986899458