{"id":1936017,"date":"2023-05-23T04:27:35","date_gmt":"2023-05-23T08:27:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/report-the-little-mermaid-pre-ticket-sales-showing-worst-performing-disney-release-this-year-in-china\/"},"modified":"2023-05-23T04:29:00","modified_gmt":"2023-05-23T08:29:00","slug":"report-the-little-mermaid-pre-ticket-sales-showing-worst-performing-disney-release-this-year-in-china","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/report-the-little-mermaid-pre-ticket-sales-showing-worst-performing-disney-release-this-year-in-china\/","title":{"rendered":"Report: &#8216;Little Mermaid&#8217; pre-sales in China worst for Disney in 2021."},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">22<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Freport-the-little-mermaid-pre-ticket-sales-showing-worst-performing-disney-release-this-year-in-china%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1936017&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><h2>Disney&#8217;s &#8220;The Little Mermaid&#8221; Struggles in China<\/h2>\n<p>Pre-ticket sales for Disney&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/disney-cancels-gina-carano-over-tweets-while-ignoring-far-worse-from-others\/\" title=\"Disney Cancels Gina Carano Over Tweets While Ignoring Far Worse From Others\">live-action remake<\/a> of &#8220;The Little Mermaid&#8221; in China have been disappointing, with only $13,000 in sales after three days of presales ahead of the May 25 opening. Observers suggest that this lack of interest from Chinese moviegoers could make it the worst-performing Disney release in China in 2023. Hollywood has struggled to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/sony-refused-to-censor-spider-man-no-way-home-for-china-sacrificing-hundreds-of-millions-of-dollars\/\" title=\"Sony Refused To Censor \u2018Spider-Man: No Way Home\u2019 For China, Sacrificing Hundreds Of Millions Of Dollars\">release films<\/a> in China since the pandemic, with a virtual ban on Western films until the country lifted its stringent &#8220;Zero-COVID&#8221; policy. The last <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/shapiro-gina-carano-firing-part-of-a-movement-to-expel-half-of-america\/\" title=\"Shapiro: Gina Carano Firing Part Of A Movement To \u2018Expel\u2019 Half Of America\">live-action adaptation<\/a> to hit Chinese theaters was Disney&#8217;s &#8220;Cruella&#8221; in 2021, which grossed $1.6 million on opening weekend and ended up making $24 million during its run in China.<\/p>\n<h3>Early Reviews in the U.S.<\/h3>\n<p>Early reviews for &#8220;The Little Mermaid&#8221; in the U.S. have been mixed. While some critics praise the performances of Halle Bailey and Melissa McCarthy, others criticize the film for being a &#8220;paint-by-numbers remake&#8221; that fails to deliver the magic of the animated classic. The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/report-the-little-mermaid-pre-ticket-sales-showing-worst-performing-disney-release-this-year-in-china\/\" title=\"Report: 'Little Mermaid' pre-sales in China worst for Disney in 2021.\">film hits theaters<\/a> on May 26.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pre-ticket sales for Disney&#8217;s &#8220;The Little Mermaid&#8221; in China are disappointing, with only $13,000 in sales after three days. Observers predict it could be the worst-performing Disney release in China in 2023. The live-action remake opens on May 25.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":219,"featured_media":1936018,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[541],"tags":[5161,4501,6344,4532,11606,27386,3819,6044],"class_list":["post-1936017","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-daily-wire","tag-5161","tag-china","tag-disney","tag-little","tag-mermaid","tag-pre-sales","tag-report","tag-worst"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1936017","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/219"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1936017"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1936017\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1936018"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1936017"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1936017"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1936017"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}